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Author Van Ruyskensvelde, Sarah, author

Title Wartime schooling and education policy in the Second World War : Catholic education, memory and the government in occupied Belgium / Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 220 pages)
Contents 1. Introduction: A Political History of Belgian Education during the Second World War -- 2. Between Pacifi cation and Confl ict: The History of Belgian Education and the Challenge of National Socialism -- 3. Towards a Gleichschaltung of Belgian Education: The German Education Policy and the Contacts between the Military Administration and the Belgian Roman Catholic Church -- 4. War in the Classroom: The Development of Catholic School Culture during the Second World War in Belgium -- 5. A School Trip Down Memory Lane: Teacher and Pupil Memories of the Second World War in Belgium -- 6. Catholic Schools during the Second World War: Victims of German Indoctrination?
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource and print version record; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 21, 2016)
Subject Catholic schools -- Belgium -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Belgium -- Education and the war
Education -- Belgium -- History -- 20th century
Educational strategies & policy.
Faith (religious) schools.
History of education.
Philosophy & theory of education.
Second World War.
Sociology.
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Catholic schools
War and education
Education
SUBJECT Belgium -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85012989
Subject Belgium
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137520111
1137520116