Pedagogy of nation: A concept and method to research nationalism in young children’s institutional lives

Abstract

In our current context, researching how young children encounter and inhabit the nation among diverse people is ever-more important. In societies free of conflict, the nation operates beneath the surface, therefore, it is difficult to study. By bringing together the perspectives of ‘everyday nationalism’ and ‘cultural pedagogy’, I develop the concept of ‘pedagogy of nation’ to focus on and account for various didactic means through which young children learn to inhabit the nation and to further explore everyday nationalism.