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Wartime Schooling and Education Policy in the Second World War

Catholic Education, Memory and the Government in Occupied Belgium

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  1. Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde

    1. University of Leuven , Kortrijk, Belgium

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: A Political History of Belgian Education during the Second World War

    • Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde
    Pages 1-21

  3. Between Pacification and Conflict: The History of Belgian Education and the Challenge of National Socialism

    • Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde
    Pages 23-48

  4. Towards a Gleichschaltung of Belgian Education: The German Education Policy and the Contacts between the Military Administration and the Belgian Roman Catholic Church

    • Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde
    Pages 49-76

  5. War in the Classroom: The Development of Catholic School Culture during the Second World War in Belgium

    • Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde
    Pages 77-130

  6. A School Trip Down Memory Lane: Teacher and Pupil Memories of the Second World War in Belgium

    • Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde
    Pages 131-164

  7. Catholic Schools during the Second World War: Victims of German Indoctrination?

    • Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde
    Pages 165-180

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 181-220
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About this book

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. 


Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Leuven , Kortrijk, Belgium

    Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde

About the author

Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde is a post-doctoral fellow at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Kulak, Belgium. 

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