History, Civic Education and Literature: Defining the Nation’s Identity and Projecting its Destiny
Year: 2024

A study of history, civic education and literature helps us to identify, classify and prioritise the political aims of a school. School-based knowledge must be compared with curriculum requirements and the knowledge produced outside, from which a school partly differs by virtue of its pedagogical function (Chervel 1988). The aims of education as defined in the school curriculum were “to foster in children the traditional values of loyalty, unity, and devotion to empe