Towards a New Understanding of Education: Perspectives on the Debate of the Purpose clause for the Norwegian Schools around 1960

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Education, National Identity, and Religion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century: The Diversity of Three European Nations 1
4. Norway
5. The Middle Ages and the Papacy in Norwegian Education 1860 –1939 19
6. The Meaning of a Christian Education: Priests, Pedagogues, and Politicians Negotiating the Norwegian Curriculum 37
7. Towards a New Understanding of Education: Perspectives on the Debate of the Purpose clause for the Norwegian Schools around 1960 55
8. The Norwegian White Paper “Identity and Dialogue,” 1995, as Part of Gudmund Hernes’s Reform Strategies 73
9. Sweden
10. The Transition from Paganism to Christianity in History Textbooks from 1900 to 1930 91
11. Christian Education and the Creation of Democratic Citizens: Presentations of Christianity in Swedish Textbooks during the 1930s and 1940s 109
12. Social Democracy, Confessional Pluralism, and Value Indoctrination: Swedish Textbooks on Christianity and Religion, 1945 –1974 131
13. Post-Christian Perspectives in Swedish Upper Secondary School Textbooks 1990 –2018 151
14. The Netherlands
15. From National School to Societal Pillar: The Secularization of Public Education in the Netherlands (1801– 1920) 173
16. Bridge between Tradition and Situation: Titus M. Gilhuis and the Changes in Confessional Education in the Netherlands, 1945 –1985 201
17. History Textbooks as Discursive Mediators: The Case of Dutch Tolerance, 1920 –1990 223
18. Religious Education as Latent Secularization in the Netherlands: An Analysis of Two Contemporary and Widely Used Textbooks 245
19. Epilogue: Textbooks as a Prism for the Politics of Secularization and “Cultural Heritage” 269
20. Author presentations 279