Education and National Identity
The use of history textbooks and language policy to construct a national narrative.
Key Questions
- 1How do schools "invent" a shared national past?
- 2What are the tensions between national and ethnic languages in education?
- 3To what extent does education serve as a tool for social mobility?
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