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oapen-20.500.12657-349342021-11-09T07:56:13Z Modernitet eller åndsdannelse? (Vol. 339):Engelsk i skole og samfund 1800-1935 Jens Rahbek Rasmussen, gymnasieskolen 20th century dansk uddannelse cultural education primary school 19. årh. 20. årh. lærdoms- og uddannelseshistorie grammar school history of education and history of learning dannelse danmark denmark danish 19th century education folkeskolen bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History Today, English is the predominant foreign language in Denmark and it is so widely spread that many people are concerned for the Danish language. But this is a recent development. As late as a hundred years ago, one could pass one's A-levels without ever having read a single word of English, and even students of the science side were taught more Latin than students of the Classical languages are today. It was the school reforms in 1903 that broke away from the grammar school and gave the modern languages a key position in both the primary, lower secondary and upper secondary schools. From having been scorned as a language of commerce, English was now recognized as a valid cultural language. The book outlines this development and discusses questions, such as: Why did it take so long for the English language to become part of the general education? What connected the Danish political-cultural orientation after 1964 and the development of the language subjects in the schools? Why was the school of Modern languages successful at first when later, in the 1930s, it came up against an identity crisis? The book provides a historical perspective for the topical debate in the upper secondary schools and proves that many of the arguments in this debate have been heard before. 2010-06-16 00:00:00 2020-04-01T15:29:54Z 2020-04-01T15:29:54Z 2006 book 342364 OCN: 808382642 0107-9212;1901-9173 9788772898681 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34934 Undetermined[und] Studier fra Sprog- og Oldtidsforskning application/pdf n/a 342364.pdf Museum Tusculanum Press 10.26530/OAPEN_342364 10.26530/OAPEN_342364 bf3aad86-19af-41e9-9504-d166b1caff10 9788772898681 138 open access
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Today, English is the predominant foreign language in Denmark and it is so widely spread that many people are concerned for the Danish language. But this is a recent development. As late as a hundred years ago, one could pass one's A-levels without ever having read a single word of English, and even students of the science side were taught more Latin than students of the Classical languages are today. It was the school reforms in 1903 that broke away from the grammar school and gave the modern languages a key position in both the primary, lower secondary and upper secondary schools. From having been scorned as a language of commerce, English was now recognized as a valid cultural language. The book outlines this development and discusses questions, such as: Why did it take so long for the English language to become part of the general education? What connected the Danish political-cultural orientation after 1964 and the development of the language subjects in the schools? Why was the
school of Modern languages successful at first when later, in the 1930s, it came up against an identity crisis?
The book provides a historical perspective for the topical debate in the upper secondary schools and proves that many of the arguments in this debate have been heard before.
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