206 pages
228mm x 145mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 367 4
ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 367 1
October 2008

This is the final volume of the important series on current developments and research in Europe published in association with CiCe - the European Union Thematic Network Programme ‘Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe’. Together the volumes offer reflection, analysis and contextualisation of recent findings, locate these in pedagogic practice, and indicate their implications for education.

In this concluding volume, the series editor discusses education about Europe, how education contributes to the construction of the identities of young people in contemporary Europe, and the education that might be thought necessary in order to ‘be a European’. Starting from the premise that concepts such as identity, citizenship, nation and Europe are inventions or constructions made by and shared with members of a particular society, this book reflects on current changes in society, and particularly European society, and how these affect the way in which young people conceptualise and construct their identities and their social relationships with their societies.

The series highlights the development of young people’s identity in the countries of Europe, which has new re;evance in the developing political, demographic and social character. It will be of interest to sociologists as well as educators across Europe.

Professor Alistair Ross is Director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Education at London Metropolitan University. He directed the CiCe project from 1998-2008.