Teacher Education in Finland during the War Years, 1939–45

The Second World War profoundly affected the school system in Finland that already functioned as the seedbed for the national ideology; the Finnish teacher training colleges were temporarily closed during the years 1939–45, and several college buildings served as stationary war hospitals. This article describes the operation of the teacher training college of Tornio in northern Finland and student teachers’ and teachers’ lives during the war years 1939–45. The moral-Christian and nationalist goals that were typical of the education at teacher training colleges deepened during the war years and, partly because of it, Herbart-Zillerism was still strongly present at the teacher training colleges of Finland

Geography · Ideology · Nationalism · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Seedbed · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Teacher education · Training (meteorology · World War II · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Psychology · Religious Education and Schools

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