Raising European Citizens: Constructing European Identities in French and English Textbooks

Abstract: Schools play a pivotal role in the formation of identities and in the political socialization of youth. This study explores the social representations of European integration in French and English school textbooks and shows how the social representations are discursively used to construct national and European identities. By analysing the history and civics textbooks of major educational publishers, this study aims to demonstrate how European integration is understood, made familiar and concretized in the school textbooks of the two influential but different European countries. The findings suggest some shared and some diverse patterns in the way the two European countries portray and construct the political project of European integration. These representations, constructed around French Europe in French textbooks and ambivalent Europe in English textbooks, share the images of a strong European economy and a French-led political Europe. However, they position themselves differentl.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/4913

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Raising European Citizens: Constructing European Identities in French and English Textbooks ; volume:4 ; number:1 ; day:29 ; month:06 ; year:2016 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 4, Heft 1 (29.06.2016)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Sakki, Inari

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v4i1.350
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004385646724402
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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