The European union and the ‘European dimension’ in schools: Theory and evidence

Theiler, Tobias

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“…This ranged from efforts to set up a pan-European lottery and "European showrooms" in museums to the envisioned insertion of "European content" into the school curricula of the member states in the form of "European civics," "corrected" history textbooks, and the like (see, for example, Shore, 1993Shore, , 1996Theiler, 1998). Most of these initiatives, too, were vehemently rejected by some national governments and consequently led to the implementation of few concrete measures.…”

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Viewers into Europeans?: How the European Union Tried to Europeanize the Audiovisual Sector, and Why it Failed

Theiler

1999

Canadian Journal of Communication

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From the early 1980s, the European Commission and Parliament made a series of attempts to use television as a tool to foster a European identity in audiences and strengthen popular support for European integration. In this paper, I first examine their efforts to help set up a pan-European multilingual television channel in order to confront the audience with non-national (and thus supposedly European and "Europeanizing") programs. Second, I trace their attempts to foster the Europeanization of the audiovisual productions sector by, in the first instance, subsidizing multinational co-productions. I show that in both areas those efforts have largely come to nothing. They stumbled over the resistance mounted by some national governments and/or were frustrated by continued audience preferences for national as opposed to foreign or non-national television programs. All this, I contend, points to the underlying difficulties of trying to promote among mass publics a cultural form that stands divorced from their respective national contexts, be it through television or other means, and it hints at the formidable obstacles that hinder the European Union's attempts to forge among Europeans a shared identity beyond the nation-state.Résumé: Dès le début des années 80, la Commission européenne et le Parlement européen tentèrent à plusieurs reprises d'utiliser la télévision comme moyen d'encourager une identité européenne chez les téléspectateurs et de les motiver à appuyer l'intégration européenne. Dans un premier temps, j'ai examiné leurs efforts pour aider à lancer une chaîne de télévision multilingue paneuropéenne. Le but de cette chaîne était de présenter aux téléspectateurs des émissions déna-tionalisées (et ainsi censées être européennes et «européanisantes»). Dans un deuxième temps, j'ai étudié leurs tentatives pour favoriser l'européanisation du marché audiovisuel, essentiellement en subventionnant les co-productions multinationales. Dans ces deux domaines, ces efforts n'ont pas abouti à grand-chose. Ils se sont heurtés à la résistance dont ont fait preuve certains gouvernements nationaux et/ou ont échoué du fait que les téléspectateurs continuaient à préférer les émissions de télévision nationales plutôt que des émissions étrangères ou dénationalisées. Tout cela, je l'affirme, indique les difficultés sous-jacentes auxquelles on se heurte si l'on essaie de promouvoir parmi les publics de masse une Tobias Theileris an assistant lecturer in the

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Viewers into Europeans?: How the European Union Tried to Europeanize the Audiovisual Sector, and Why it Failed

Theiler

1999

Canadian Journal of Communication

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“…6 The same understanding has been used by the European Commission in its attempts at constructing 'European identity' via cooperative cultural and educational programmes in the 1970s and 1980s Sassatelli 2009). The most well-known initiative regarding the content of schooling has been the introduction of a 'European dimension' in school curricula as a 'corrective' way to teach history and civics in the aftermath of Second World War (Ryba 2000;Theiler 1999). 7 By 'entitivity' here I mean a set of features that make actors seem like 'entities'-i.e.…”

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Europeanization qua Institutionalization of World Culture: Examples from Post-1989 Romanian Education

Szakács

2015

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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Inspired by World Society scholarship, I use examples from the Romanian educational sphere to examine Europeanization in relation with worldwide developments. Instead of seeing Europeanization broadly as the process of becoming more 'European' (an approach that encounters the difficulty of defining 'Europe'), or narrowly as a process of 'EU-ization' (an approach that suffers from EU-centric blindness to the rest of the world), I propose to define Europeanization as a process of institutionalization of world culture that is particularly visible in post-socialist contexts characterized by an emergence from relative totalitarian isolation. The main finding presented here is an increasing cosmopolitanization of the nation emerging from the way in which the category 'Europe' permeates schooled content: the nation is tamed down through discursive association with Europe (a significant other) rather than through elimination or discreditation. By expressing educational scripts that legitimize it as a nation-state in the post-1945 redefined sense of the term, Romania's compulsory education displays signs of becoming more like the rest of the world rather than more like 'Europe'. Europeanization, in this sense, exemplifies less the goal of catching up with Europe or of joining the EU and more the means to insert Romania into world society.

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“…Studies in this vein usually adopt the aforementioned view of Europeanization as a process of change and adaption that originates at the European level and raises questions about its implementation at the national level. As a result, this line of research has revealed the often contested and unevenly evolving processes of adaptation and harmonization of national education systems which result from Europeanization efforts in the domain of education (cf., for example, Maassen and Musselin 2009;Marginson and van der Wende 2009;Theiler 1999).…”

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Education, Europeanization and Europe’s social integration. An introduction

Carlson

Eigmueller

Lueg

2018

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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The European union and the ‘European dimension’ in schools: Theory and evidence

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

Viewers into Europeans?: How the European Union Tried to Europeanize the Audiovisual Sector, and Why it Failed

Viewers into Europeans?: How the European Union Tried to Europeanize the Audiovisual Sector, and Why it Failed

Europeanization qua Institutionalization of World Culture: Examples from Post-1989 Romanian Education

Education, Europeanization and Europe’s social integration. An introduction

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