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Journal of Controversial Ideas

The Fatal Conceit: Swedish Education after Nazism

Journal Article
Reference
Heller Sahlgren, Gabriel and Johan Wennström (2022). “The Fatal Conceit: Swedish Education after Nazism”. Journal of Controversial Ideas 2(1), 9. doi.org/10.35995/jci02010009

Authors
Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, Johan Wennström

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Sweden dismantled an education system that was strongly influenced by German, Neo-Humanist pedagogical principles in favor of a progressive, student-centered system. This article suggests this was in large part due to a fatal misinterpretation of the education policy on which Nazism was predicated.