On the Borders of Europe. Citizenship Education and Identity in Cyprus

Abstract: This paper is about the concept of "Europe" and how it could be used as an educational framework to alleviate existing tensions regarding citizenship education and Euro-pean/national/state identity in the context of Cyprus. To this end, the paper serves both a descriptive and a normative agenda, in that it largely describes recent theoretical and political development in civics and citizenship education in Europe and in Cyprus, in order to explore, in the last part of the paper, the potential of using "Europe" and "European citizenship" as tools for reflection and dialogue over (Greek)-Cypriot citizenship and identity. The study of European citi-zenship is complicated due to its different meanings and associations with national identities; I argue that in Cyprus this is further complicated by a political problem of community conflict and partition, which has long been challenging peoples' national identities. Cyprus, an island lying on the borders of (traditional geographical defin.... http://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/397

Object Details

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

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: On the Borders of Europe. Citizenship Education and Identity in Cyprus ; volume:6 ; number:1 ; day:10 ; month:01 ; year:2007 ; Journal of social science education ; 6, Heft 1 (10.01.2007)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Philippou, Stavroula

Further information

• DOI: 10.4119/jsse-397
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019011815104309566599
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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