Publication details
Die langen 1950er-Jahre und ihre Fibeln. Österreichische Gesellschafts- und Kulturgeschichte im Spiegel von Erstlesebüchern
| Title in English | The primers of the long 1950s. Austrian social and cultural history mirrored in first reader books |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This article examines whether and in what way Austrian reading primers published in the period from 1948 to 1965 (approx.) mirror the specific zeitgeist of this time. For this purpose, four reading primers published in the 1950s are analysed. Drawing on the example of one of the books for each of the following aspects the article dem¬onstrates that the books represent ideas about children’s literature and constructs about childhood (1), educational concepts (2), socio-political goals (3) and political mentalities that were specific for the period examined. In this sense, the reading primers were up to date at their time. Nowadays, they can be read as a source of contemporary history. However, as there is no communal remembrance of these books, they can rather not be considered as part of cultural memory. |
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