Citizenship Education in Ukraine and Russia: Reconciling Nation-Building and Active Citizenship

Autor/inn/en	Janmaat, Jan Germen; Piattoeva, Nelli
Titel	Citizenship Education in Ukraine and Russia: Reconciling Nation-Building and Active Citizenship
Quelle	In: Comparative Education, 43 (2007) 4, S.527-552 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0068
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Patriotism; Citizenship; Democracy; Citizenship Education; Foreign Countries; Foreign Policy; Agency Role; Social Change; Political Influences; International Cooperation; Competition; Russia; Ukraine + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Patriotismus; Staatsbürgerschaft; Demokratie; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Ausland; Außenpolitik; Sozialer Wandel; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Wettkampf; Russland
Abstract	This paper examines the discourses framing citizenship education in Ukraine and Russia from "perestroika" to the present and assesses the role of the Council of Europe in promoting democratic citizenship in both countries. We argue that there is a tension between the discourses of active citizenship, strongly disseminated by international agencies (the Council of Europe in our case), and national consolidation, pursued by Ukraine and Russia since the fall of the Soviet regime. While the beginning of the 1990s was marked by democratization and individualization, from the mid-1990s the emphasis on state cohesion became more prominent in both states. From the end of the 1990s, however, citizenship education aims started to diverge, despite a similar approach of the Council of Europe to the two countries. In Russia the government reinforced the state cohesion agenda, which led to the patriotic education discourse gaining strength. In Ukraine, nation-building was made secondary to bringing the education system in line with international standards in order to improve the country's competitiveness. The nature of citizenship education in the two countries therefore seems to be more a reflection of domestic political developments than the product of international policy agenda. (Contains 12 notes.) (Author).
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