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  • Making citizens, being European? : European symbolism in Slovenian citizenship education textbooks
    Banjac, Marinko ; Pušnik, Tomaž, 1987-
    Citizenship education has been an important part of the European Union's (EU) agenda to integrate a European dimension into schools' curricula. The usage of European symbolism in citizenship ... education curriculum material has been an especially important (yet understudied) means not only to promote a distinct European identity and increase knowledge on EU-related topics, but also to regulate (young) EU citizens and population. The paper analyses the content related to the EU and European dimension in citizenship education textbooks and workbooks at the lower-secondary school level in Slovenia. It demonstrates that, through diverse symbolic displays, which are understood as a specific governmental technique, the idea of a European community as a site of opportunities is promoted while students are stimulated to understand themselves as subjects who must be active and responsible EU citizens. Moreover, European symbolism is employed to nurture and promote Slovenian identity as being purely European and, as such, distinct from earlier Balkan-situated, Yugoslav and socialist forms of identity and belonging.
    Source: Compare. - ISSN 0305-7925 (Vol. 45, no. 5, 2015, str. 748-771)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2015
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 32730973

source: Compare. - ISSN 0305-7925 (Vol. 45, no. 5, 2015, str. 748-771)
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