Journal article
Anja Giudici, Thomas Ruoss, Giorgia Masoni
Swiss Journal of Educational Research, vol. 41(2), 2019, pp. 386-403
Swiss Journal of Educational Research, vol. 41(2), 2019, pp. 386-403
DOI:
10.24452/sjer.41.2.8
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Giudici, A., Ruoss, T., & Masoni, G. (2019). Nativist Authoritarian Far-Right Flirtations with Progressive Education: Exploring the Relationship in Interwar Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Educational Research, 41(2), 386–403. https://doi.org/10.24452/sjer.41.2.8
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Giudici, Anja, Thomas Ruoss, and Giorgia Masoni. “Nativist Authoritarian Far-Right Flirtations with Progressive Education: Exploring the Relationship in Interwar Switzerland.” Swiss Journal of Educational Research 41, no. 2 (2019): 386–403.
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Giudici, Anja, et al. “Nativist Authoritarian Far-Right Flirtations with Progressive Education: Exploring the Relationship in Interwar Switzerland.” Swiss Journal of Educational Research, vol. 41, no. 2, 2019, pp. 386–403, doi:10.24452/sjer.41.2.8.
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@article{giudici2019a,
title = {Nativist Authoritarian Far-Right Flirtations with Progressive Education: Exploring the Relationship in Interwar Switzerland},
year = {2019},
issue = {2},
journal = {Swiss Journal of Educational Research},
pages = {386-403},
volume = {41},
doi = {10.24452/sjer.41.2.8},
author = {Giudici, Anja and Ruoss, Thomas and Masoni, Giorgia}
}
Abstract
Progressive education is generally thought to bear little commonality with authoritarianism and nativism. However several studies show far-right governments and movements embracing progressive tenets.This article investigates the reasons behind this phenomenon by confronting the educational ideas of key far-right parties and educators in interwar German- and Italian-speaking Switzerland. Our systematic analysis of texts produced by these actors suggests that they subscribed to progressivism not in spite of their political views, but precisely because it aligned with their authoritarian and nativist ideology. This finding calls for more scholarship exploring and theorising the relationship between political ideologies and (progressive) educational ideas and movements.