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Wartime Schooling and Education Policy in the Second World War Catholic Education, Memory and the Government in Occupied Belgium
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Wartime Schooling and Education Policy in the Second World War [electronic resource] : Catholic Education, Memory and the Government in Occupied Belgium / by Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde.
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9781137520111
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London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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XII, 220 p. : online resource.
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This book deals with the development of private secondary schooling during the Second World War in Belgium. It focuses on how the German occupier used education to gain acceptance of the regime, and discusses the attitudes of Belgian education authorities, schools, teachers and pupils towards the German occupation. Suggesting that the occupation forced Belgian education authorities, such as the Roman Catholic Church, to take certain positions, the book explores the wartime experiences and memories of pupils and teachers. It explains that the German Culture Department was relatively weak in establishing total control over education and that Catholic schools were able to maintain their education project during the war. However, the book also reveals that, in some cases, the German occupation did not need total control over education in order to find support for some authoritarian ideas. As such, Van Ruyskenvelde’s analysis presents a nuanced view of the image of the Catholic Church, schools, teachers and pupils as mere victims of war. Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde is a post-doctoral fellow at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Kulak, Belgium. .
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English
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September 01, 2016
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Political History of Belgian Education during the Second World War
Chapter 2. Between Pacification and Conflict: The History of Belgian Education and the Challenge of National Socialism
Chapter 3. Towards a Gleichschaltung of Belgian Education: The German Education Policy and the Contacts between the Military Administration and the Belgian Roman Catholic Church
Chapter 4. War in the Classroom: The Development of Catholic School Culture during World War II in Belgium
Chapter 5. A School Trip Down Memory Lane: Teacher and Pupil Memories of World War II in Belgium
Chapter 6. Catholic Schools during World War II: Victims of German Indoctrination?.
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