National attachment among Berlin and London head teachers: the explanatory impact of national identity, national pride and supranational attachment

Pöllmann, Andreas

doi:10.1080/03055690701785277

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“…In both cities, high levels of national attachment do not translate into low levels of attachment to Europe, or vice versa (Pollmann 2008a). In fact, levels of national attachment and levels of attachment to Europe show a strong positive association (see Table 3), suggesting that one form of attachment may further, rather than obstruct, the appropriation of another (Guetzkow 1955;Delanty and Rumford 2005).…”

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“…Whilst empirical research in Germany largely suggests the reconcilability of feelings of attachment to country and feelings of attachment to Europe (Florack and Piontkowski 2000;Pollmann 2007Pollmann , 2008a, it is rather atypical to find positive associations between national and supranational forms of attachment in British, especially English, samples (Duchesne and Frognier 1995;Cinnirella 1997;Huici et al 1997;Carey 2002). It will be interesting to see whether the findings for Berlin and London head teachers reflect these wider national trends.…”

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Attachment to Europe Among School Leaders in Berlin and London

Pöllmann

2010

European Societies

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Comparisons of public opinion in England and Germany consistently show higher levels of attachment to Europe and support for European integration in Germany. The respective cross-national differences are empirically well-documented, can be framed in plausible macrocontextual explanations, and are Á on the descriptive level Á confirmed in the present survey of Berlin and London state secondary school head teachers. However, in view of such conclusive evidence, it is easy to overlook cross-national convergences pertaining to people's individual experiences and perceptions. This article offers an alternative view on empirically welldocumented and theoretically plausible cross-national differences in levels of attachment to Europe, with a particular interest in the field of formal education. Drawing on a series of multivariate statistical analyses, it demonstrates that Á in Berlin as well as in London Á levels of attachment to Europe largely depend on the head teachers' intercultural experiences and skills as well as their notions of Europe as object of attachment. The respective findings lend support to educational programmes and initiatives that promote intercultural experiences and skills as means towards further European integration.

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Attachment to Europe Among School Leaders in Berlin and London

Pöllmann

2010

European Societies

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“…On the importance of people's perceptions in studies of national identities, see for instance, Brubaker (2006), Reicher and Hopkins (2001), and Shulman (2002). Pöllmann (2008)to give a more closely related example-shows how levels of national attachment can vary depending on subjective notions of legitimate national membership. 2.…”

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LocatingAncestryin Notions of Britishness/Germanness

Pöllmann

2012

SAGE Open

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This article focuses on ancestry as a controversial marker of Britishness/Germanness. Considering developments in nationality law and large-scale survey data for England and Germany, it illustrates that macrocontextual distinctions into civic and ethnic nations tend to overestimate cross-national differences, while underestimating important within-country variations according to people's educational background. The fact that-in both countries-higher levels of formal education are strongly associated with more ethnically inclusive notions of legitimate national membership underlines the formative potential of formal education in contemporary multicultural societies.

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“…Thus Germany might be one country in which social norms prohibiting high national identification have developed, and consequently Germans as a group might be less identified with their nation than citizens of other countries. Indeed, German citizens have been reported to have a troubled national identity (Mummendey, Klink, & Brown, 2001;Nigbur & Cinnirella, 2007;Pollmann, 2008;Smith & Kim, 2006), as exhibited in low national attachment and low national pride. However, none of the past research has focused on sociocultural antecedents of national identification.…”

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confidence: 99%