Nativist authoritarian far-right flirtations with progressive education: exploring the relationship in interwar Switzerland

Giudici, Anja, Masoni, Giorgia and Ruoss, Thomas 2019. Nativist authoritarian far-right flirtations with progressive education: exploring the relationship in interwar Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Education Research 41 (2) , pp. 386-403. 10.24452/sjer.41.2.8

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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 authori- tarian and nativist ideology. This finding calls for more scholarship exploring and theorising the relationship between political ideologies and (progressive) educational ideas and movements.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LA History of education
Publisher:	Bern Open Publishing
ISSN:	2624-8492
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	2 September 2024
Date of Acceptance:	January 2019
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2024 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/171754

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