Revista Brasileira de História da Educação (Apr 2014)
The formation of european states and the schooling of national languages
Abstract
The development of philological studies provoked the claim for primacy in time among European nations. Thus, the old correspondence ‘one language, one nation’ came to secure its value no longer in the past, but in the future, acquiring a new meaning as European states will make the learning of an official language mandatory to all citizens. This article tries to contribute to a reflection about the slow process of constitution of vernacular languages as national languages, investigating how national education systems promoted the schooling of their administrative and literary languages, endowing them with the necessary elements for their configuration as school disciplines.
