Re-Inventing 'Europe': The Case of the European Dimension in Greek-Cypriot Geography and History Curricula

Autor/in	Philippou, Stavroula
Titel	Re-Inventing 'Europe': The Case of the European Dimension in Greek-Cypriot Geography and History Curricula
Quelle	In: Curriculum Journal, 18 (2007) 1, S.57-88 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0958-5176
DOI	10.1080/09585170701292190
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Textbooks; Geography; Content Analysis; Comparative Education; History Instruction; Curriculum Development; Elementary Schools; Teaching Methods; Ethnocentrism; Cyprus; Greece + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Geografie; Inhaltsanalyse; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ethnozentrismus; Zypern; Griechenland
Abstract	'Europe' has been increasingly 'invented' and 'reinvented' in discussions about education, curricula and identities over the last five decades. The 'European dimension in education' was a term increasingly used by the European Union and the Council of Europe to denote their educational policies encouraging national educational systems to endorse a European dimension in order to prepare young people for an increasingly integrated Europe. However, it has also been a contested term in academic writing, as some researchers critique the elitist, exclusionary and Eurocentric educational implications it may have; others welcome its pedagogic and intercultural potential. This article presents the findings of a content analysis of the history and geography curricula and textbooks used in state Greek-Cypriot primary schools and explores the possibilities of using the European dimension as a tool to alleviate ethnocentrism and traditional pedagogies in these curricula and textbooks, by presenting the application of some principles which have been used for the development of a curricular intervention in the two subjects. (Contains 3 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10