CATHOLIC AND NATIONAL-SOCIALIST PEDAGOGICS IN BELGIUM, 1919-1955 - THEIR AMBIVALENT RELATION AS MIRRORED BY THE VLAAMSCH-OPVOEDKUNDIG-TIJDSCHRIFT

The author discusses distance and affinity, continuity and discontinui ty of Flemish-Catholic and National Socialist pedagogics for the perio d up to 1945/55. With regard to some of the central issues of the Nati onal Socialist ideology, especially the priority or willpower formatio n, the ideology of motherhood, and national idiosyncrasies, affinities and elements of continuity were revealed, as regards racism and biolo gism, however, a distance was kept between the two approaches. In retr ospect, i.e. following 1945, these affinities were more or less suppre ssed, rather, a systematic difference between Catholic and National So cialist pedagogics, as exemplified in the work of EW. FOERSTER, was po stulated.