["Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nScholars of nationalism have pointed to the importance of educational institutions for the dissemination of national identities and associated sentimental attachments, yet how nationalism is learned within these educational institutions has received little attention. This article takes as its focus two foundational texts on nationalism, Benedict Anderson's (1983) Imagined Communities and Eugen Weber's (1976) Peasants into Frenchmen, in order to identify how education and learning were situated within these respective works. This article argues that assumptions of learner passivity, environmental determinism and knowledge transfer underpinned Weber's and Anderson's respective conceptualisations of learning, and the argument points to the implications of conceptualisations of learning for studies into the role of educational institutions for the dissemination of nationalism.\n"]