Globalization, nationalism and Europe: The need for trans-national perspectives in education

• Authors: Radim Šíp
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is divided into five parts that take readers through a historical and sociological analysis of the birth of European nationalism and concludes by emphasizing the need to overcome nationalism. In the first three parts, the author provides readers with detailed arguments on the historical background of nationalism. These show that the ideas of nationalism provided modern society with an important type of social bond. However, the article also focuses on why this type of social bond became the source of serious trouble in central Europe. It has produced many disastrous events, such as wars, the holocaust, and ethnic-cleansing. Moreover, it has brought about a style of thinking that is too rigid and out of date in our globalizing world. The fourth part shows that nationalism operates through nationalist identity-myths. In the final part of the article, the author demonstrates how this new type of nationalism type has influenced the philosophy of education, teaching and national curricula and suggests a few maxims that should govern the transition from nationalist to trans-nationalist perspectives (not only) in education.

Keywords

EN

curricula, education; identity; modernity; nationalism; myth; pragmatism

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 248-257

Dates

published

2014-04-01

online

2014-03-29

Contributors

author

Radim Šíp

• Masaryk University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-014-0223-z