Formal and Informal Education during the Rise of Greek Nationalism: Learning to be Greek

This book examines informal modes of learning in Greece from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century while set against the backdrop of Greek nationalist interests and agendas. For much of this period, one of the Greek state's major goals was to bind the nation around a common national history and culture. This book addresses the critical relationship between the average Greek child and their home, community, and school life during the earliest stages of their education. The stories, games, songs, and theater that children learned in Greece for much of the late nineteenth andearly twentieth centuries went beyond shaping the child's moral character or providing entertainment to the child, but were instrumental in forging a Greek national consciousness.