INFORMAL LEARNING IN LATE-NINETEENTH AND EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY GREECE.

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Title:	INFORMAL LEARNING IN LATE-NINETEENTH AND EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY GREECE.
Authors:	Zervas, Theodore G.¹ tzervas@northpark.edu
Source:	American Educational History Journal. 2013, Vol. 40 Issue 1/2, p207-219. 13p.
Subject Terms:	Nonformal education, Education, *History, Modern Greek children's literature, History in literature, Greek national character, National character in literature, Greek history, 1821-, Politics & literature, Nationalism in literature
Geographic Terms:	Greece
Abstract:	The article discusses informal learning through children's literature in late 19th and early 20th-century Greece, with a particular focus on the use of children's literature to promote Greek history and Greek national identity. Details on stories depicting classical Greece and the Byzantine empire and on Greek state support for publishers of such stories are presented. The author describes the children's book "Louis Karas" by Demitrios Vikelas and the magazine "Diaplasis ton Paidion" (Child Rearing). Other topics include school textbooks, nationalism, and children's author Penelope Delta.
Database:	Education Research Complete

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Abstract:	The article discusses informal learning through children's literature in late 19th and early 20th-century Greece, with a particular focus on the use of children's literature to promote Greek history and Greek national identity. Details on stories depicting classical Greece and the Byzantine empire and on Greek state support for publishers of such stories are presented. The author describes the children's book "Louis Karas" by Demitrios Vikelas and the magazine "Diaplasis ton Paidion" (Child Rearing). Other topics include school textbooks, nationalism, and children's author Penelope Delta.
ISSN:	15350584