citizenship education
Is it possible to establish trans-national forms of citizenship? Discuss in relation to European citizenship.
Introduction
In this essay, I will argue that it is impossible to establish trans-national citizenship and I will make this argument in relation to European citizenship. There are mainly five aspects supporting my argument.
To begin with, as education exerts a great influence on the establishment of European citizenship, it is necessary to describe the current status of the education for European citizenship and investigate whether these educational activities are of help to its establishment.
Education for European citizenship is so important as European citizenship is not a shared cultural heritage that Europeans will automatically identify themselves to. Rather, it is established on the basis of a shared democratic culture that Europeans recognize themselves as citizens of Europe. Therefore, for young people in Europe, educational initiatives are of great importance in facilitating the process of establishing European citizenship.
These educational actions have been carried out in a large number of areas such as language, history in order to enhance and promote their sense of belonging to Europe, which contributes to the establishment as well as the development of European citizenship. In this regard, many efforts have been made to accomplish this goal, the details of which are included in the body part, however, it remains unclear that how much it has been done and whether it is effective or not. Hence the efforts that have already been made seem not to facilitate the establishment nor encourage the development of European citizenship.
Secondly, according to Sobisch(1997), there are three definitions presented in order to meet the requirements of the establishment of European citizenship. They are "political-legal, civic-virtue and European identity" (Sobisch, 1997, p.74). Due to the failure to meet the last two requirements, the possibility
Introduction
In this essay, I will argue that it is impossible to establish trans-national citizenship and I will make this argument in relation to European citizenship. There are mainly five aspects supporting my argument.
To begin with, as education exerts a great influence on the establishment of European citizenship, it is necessary to describe the current status of the education for European citizenship and investigate whether these educational activities are of help to its establishment.
Education for European citizenship is so important as European citizenship is not a shared cultural heritage that Europeans will automatically identify themselves to. Rather, it is established on the basis of a shared democratic culture that Europeans recognize themselves as citizens of Europe. Therefore, for young people in Europe, educational initiatives are of great importance in facilitating the process of establishing European citizenship.
These educational actions have been carried out in a large number of areas such as language, history in order to enhance and promote their sense of belonging to Europe, which contributes to the establishment as well as the development of European citizenship. In this regard, many efforts have been made to accomplish this goal, the details of which are included in the body part, however, it remains unclear that how much it has been done and whether it is effective or not. Hence the efforts that have already been made seem not to facilitate the establishment nor encourage the development of European citizenship.
Secondly, according to Sobisch(1997), there are three definitions presented in order to meet the requirements of the establishment of European citizenship. They are "political-legal, civic-virtue and European identity" (Sobisch, 1997, p.74). Due to the failure to meet the last two requirements, the possibility
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