Concepts of Citizenship in the Educational Materials of the EU and the Council of Europe
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Rethinking Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe: Insights from Education and Political Research. ed. / Nina Kolleck; Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski. Bristol University Press, 2025. p. 221-240 (Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education).
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Concepts of Citizenship in the Educational Materials of the EU and the Council of Europe
AU - Moulin-Doos, Claire
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Bristol University Press 2025.
PY - 2025/5/23
Y1 - 2025/5/23
N2 - This article analyses the models of citizenship in educational documents elaborated at the supranational European level. Both the EU and the Council of Europe support a values-based approach to citizenship. However, while the EU favours a non-political form of citizenship, the Council of Europe favours a more politicised form of citizenship. Implementation reports and academic literature show that the countries of Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe are keen to implement European educational recommendations and materials, which are optional and not compulsory. Nevertheless, they tend to resist the value-based approach of citizenship, which is perceived as indoctrination in these post-communist countries. The article concludes that the normative, non-conflictual approach to citizenship does not meet the challenge of the growing conflicts in an ever more pluralistic Europe.
AB - This article analyses the models of citizenship in educational documents elaborated at the supranational European level. Both the EU and the Council of Europe support a values-based approach to citizenship. However, while the EU favours a non-political form of citizenship, the Council of Europe favours a more politicised form of citizenship. Implementation reports and academic literature show that the countries of Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe are keen to implement European educational recommendations and materials, which are optional and not compulsory. Nevertheless, they tend to resist the value-based approach of citizenship, which is perceived as indoctrination in these post-communist countries. The article concludes that the normative, non-conflictual approach to citizenship does not meet the challenge of the growing conflicts in an ever more pluralistic Europe.
KW - Balkan region
KW - Central and Eastern Europe
KW - Civic versus citizenship education
KW - Council of Europe
KW - Educational material
KW - European Union
KW - Normative versus political models of citizenship
KW - Politics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105008159240&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.51952/9781529240818.ch011
DO - 10.51952/9781529240818.ch011
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:105008159240
SN - 9781529240788
T3 - Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education
SP - 221
EP - 240
BT - Rethinking Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe
A2 - Kolleck, Nina
A2 - Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel
PB - Bristol University Press
ER -