Daniel Tröhler
Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich,
Pestalozzi Research Institute for the History of Education,
Zürich Switzerland

"Curriculum, Languages, and Mentalities or:
What are the Contexts of Curriculum
if Curriculum is a Text?"

Thursday, 5 April 2007
3:00 p.m.
Room 468 Teacher Education Building

Sponsored by:
The Center for European Studies
and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Professor Tröhler is one of the leading European educational historians. His work has examined German, Dutch, Swiss, and American educational systems as they relate to the formation of the modern nation and the secularization of Protestant salvation narratives. In this lecture Professor Tröhler will examine Republican language in Zurich around 1760 as it intersects with commerce, between the bourgeois and the virtuous patriot, that structured a immense part of political and sociological thought in Protestant Europe in the 18th century. He takes the Moral Political and Historical Society of Zurich as an example to consider two different contexts in the formation of the "insides" of the school, its dimensions of curriculum. One of these is the conceptual design, that is, the formulation of learning goals and strategies, the syllabus; the context of this langue. The other dimension is the historical realization of the design, that is, the practical organizing; the context of mentality.