An utraquist school or utraquist gymnasium is a term for bilingual education in some countries, in which the subjects were taught both in a state language and in the language of some ethnic minority. The term "utraquist" here is in an analogy with the Catholic concept of utraquism (from Latin: uterque, utraque, "both"/"each (of the two)").
Such schools existed, e.g., in Poland, in areas dominated by Ukrainians and Belarusians ("Kresy Wschodnie"), and in Austria-Hungary/Austria of 19th and early 20th centuries, in the areas of numerous ethnic minorities. In both cases, these types of schools were considered to be instrumented of ethnic assimilation (Polonization and Germanisation respectively.) In Poland, some other utraquist schools taught in Polish and Yiddish languages.
An account traced the root of the utraquist school to the concept called revelatio, which denotes an insight drawn from ancient authorities and texts. The church was one of the earliest institutions to practice it. The use of the utraquist model, however, declined for several decades due to the policies that ban compulsory second language use in the classroom.
The concept was reintroduced in a different form, the Content and Language Integrated Learning or CLIL. Bilingual schools are promoted in the European Union education policy, particularly for secondary education.
References
- Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10586-X, Google Books, p.144
- Heinz Dieter Pohl, Die ethnisch-sprachlichen Voraussetzungen der Volksabstimmung (Accessed on 3 August 2006)
- Isaac Landman (1939) The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 636: "Utraquist Schools"
- ^ Fudge, Thomas A. (2018-03-29). The Magnificent Ride: The First Reformation in Hussite Bohemia. Routledge. ISBN 9781351886338.
- Wolf, Michaela (2015). The Habsburg Monarchy's Many-Languaged Soul: Translating and interpreting, 1848–1918. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 28. ISBN 9789027258564.
- ^ Thije, Jan D. ten; Zeevaert, Ludger (2007). Receptive Multilingualism: Linguistic Analyses, Language Policies, and Didactic Concepts. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing. p. 58. ISBN 9789027219268.
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