Giudici, AnjaGrizelj, Sandra2016-10-192017-06-0120170030-92301477-674Xhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2016.1229348http://hdl.handle.net/11654/23382By the end of the nineteenth century, the relationship between the state, language and schooling had become extremely close: a state was supposed to be “national”, and a real nation was supposed to be monolingual. This paper discusses the theory from the perspective of a multilingual state: Switzerland. In the 1914–1945 period the Swiss state’s multilingualism became part of the Swiss national identity and learning another national language became a matter of patriotic education. However, this new conception did not affect all curricula in the same manner.enCurriculum studiesmultilingualismlanguage policy370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen940 - Geschichte Europas400 - Sprache01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift137-154