An expanded EU's capacity to act, as well as its acceptance in the wider international community, is closely coupled to questions involving its political and social interactions with the growing ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic diversity in the European Union. As a 'European' self-image grows, the continuing importance of questions having to do with minorities, the examination of historical events, and collective remembrance in the nations of Central and Eastern Europe becomes more important than ever before. This was highlighted as recently as April of 2007 by events in Estonia, when violent clashes caused largely by differing interpretations of historical events took place between Estonians and Russians.
In cooperation with the University of Tartu's Center for Ethics, the German Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Goethe Institute Tallinn have organised the NECE workshop "The Impacts of National Identities for European Integration as Focus for Citizenship Education". The workshop aimed on the one hand to provide a picture of the current academic discourse on citizenship, as well as a networking opportunity for professionals in the field. On the other hand, by introducing those professionals to exemplary projects, it seeked to emphasize the education and mediation role of citizenship education in national and European identity training courses.
Contents
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Interner Link: Programme (PDF-Version: 535 KB)
Interner Link: Biographies of the Participants (PDF-Version: 827 KB)
Interner Link: List of Participants (PDF-Version: 506 KB)
Input Papers
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Interner Link: Cornelia Bruell: Citizenship Education Between Ethnicity - Identity – Nationality: Scientific Findings and Country-specific Comparisons (PDF-Version: 87 KB)
Interner Link: Fabrice Larat: The Culture of Memory in Europe – the Foundation for the Integration of Europe (PDF-Version: 101 KB)
Interner Link: Ivaylo Ditchev: "Mobility, Identity, Citizenship" (PDF-Version: 107 KB)
Interner Link: Nalan Soyarık Sentürk: Contribution from Turkey
(PDF-Version: 51 KB)
Interner Link: Nikolai Meinert: "Citizens, Nation or Minority – Pattern of Russian Identity in Estonia" (PDF-Version: 49 KB)
Interner Link: Anna Radiukiewicz: "Citizenship Education in Poland" (PDF-Version: 128 KB)
Interner Link: Stefan Auer: "The Politics of Memory in Europe: The Foundation for a European Integration" (PDF-Version: 100 KB)
Interner Link: Riitta Kohornen: Culture, Identity and Citizenship. Education in Teacher Education - Excamples from Finland (PDF-Version: 951 KB)
Presentations
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Interner Link: Anne Sliwka: Learning and living democracy in heterogeneous societies (PDF-Version: 55 KB)
Interner Link: Kees Ribbens: "Some notes on the relevance of (European) history" (PDF-Version: 69 KB)
Interner Link: Kees Ribbens: Facing changes: how can history remain relevant? (PDF-Version: 47 KB)
Interner Link: Luisa Ziaja: Socialist Heritage and Identity-Formation in Post-1989 Europe - Museums and Exhibitions (PDF-Version: 61 KB)
Interner Link: Rael Artel: Public Preparation Project (PDF-Version: 44 KB)
Interner Link: Anna Sliwka: Citizenship Education as the Responsibility of the Whole School: Three Examples (PDF-Version: 280 KB)
Interner Link: Danka Moravcíková: Multicultural Education for European Citizenship 2006 – 2009 (PDF-Version: 1106 KB)
Interner Link: Anu Toots: CCE in post-transitional Estonia: the burden of history (PDF-Version: 745 KB)
Final Presentations
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Interner Link: How can we think citizenship (PDF-Version: 25 KB)
Interner Link: Food for thought and some recommendations (PDF-Version: 123 KB)
