Ambassadors of the Swedish nation: national images in the teaching of the Swedish lecturers in Germany 1918–1945

Andreas Akerlund ^[1]
1. [1] Uppsala University
  
  Uppsala University
  
  Uppsala domkyrkoförs., Suecia
Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 51, Nº. 5, 2015, págs. 595-613
Idioma: inglés
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- This article analyses the teaching of Swedish language lecturers active in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century. It shows the centrality of literature and literary constructions and analyses images of Swedishness and the Swedish nation present in the teaching material of that time in relation to the national image present in Swedish schoolbooks. The importance of language teaching to the transfer of knowledge regarding foreign countries is also discussed, in this case the knowledge and images of Sweden that were transferred to German students via their lecturers.