European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization
Robert Schuman Centre

Teaching Europe

organized by Raffaele Romanelli (EUI) together with the Schuman Center,
European University Institute, and the "One Europe or Several?" Programme,
ESRC

Florence 15-16 June, Villa Schifanoia and CISL Conference Centre

Europe is (once again) under construction. A myriad of efforts are in effect
to invent and disseminate the signs and symbols of the "new" Europe, to
redefine its myths and to inscribe its emerging narratives into and over
national ones. This conference will focus on one sphere in which Europe is
re-thought and re-taught: Education.
The idea of Europe is often entrenched with that of the nation. In
narratives of education, the geographical and cultural spaces of Europe and
the nation travel from their origins in 'time immemorial', through the
present short twentieth century (Hobsbawm) and continuing into the future.
One aim of this conference is to unravel how the time and space of Europe
and nation have transformed, and collided, over time. This conference will
scrutinize the teaching of both these constructs and their inevitable
intercourse and contingency in schools, school books, and curricula.

Friday 15 June 2001 (Villa Schifanoia, Sala Bandiere)

h. 9.00
Introduction: Raffaele Romanelli (EUI) and Yves M=E9ny (RSC)

I. Nationalizing Education
The 'new' Europe has past(s). The narratives regarding the birth and destiny
of the individual nations that constitute its present necessarily color and
differentiate the projected unity of Europe. Hence, it is imperative to
trace how the national genealogies inform the Europe now envisioned and
taught to the new generations of 'Europeans'. This session will focus on the
accounts of nationalizing education, with the aim of provoking the necessary
questions for a critical discussion on teaching Europe.

h. 10.00
Mauro Moretti (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Une enqu=EAte sur les=
 manuels
d'histoire dans l'Italie lib=E9rale

h. 10.30
Jean Fran=E7ois Chanet (University of Lille), Education nationale et
appartenance locale en France, XIXe-XXe si=E8cles

h. 11.00 Coffee Break

h.11.30
Vasilia Antoniou (University of Essex), The Nation as Europe: Constructing
Greek Education.

h. 12.00
Halil Berktay (Sabanci University), Essentializing the Nation in
Historiography

Discussant and Chair: Raffaele Romanelli

h. 13.30 Lunch

II. Europe in Textbooks
Textbooks are primarily national narratives. They are key narratives through
which national and citizenship identities are projected and constructed
vis-=E0-vis a wider world. The postwar era witnessed major curricular=
 reforms
in Europe through which the canonized understandings and presentations of
the nation and national history were transformed. On the one hand, the
global and regional reconfigurations have made tenuous the existing national
narratives. The unfolding of the European Union as a transnational political
entity has undermined the national closure of collectives and introduced new
pressures to rethink nation-state identities. On the other, the end of the
cold war redefined the national prerogatives and the conceptual and real
boundaries of Europe. This session will bring together scholars who analyze
school curricula and textbooks, with a specific attention to the postwar
changes in the projection of the nation and citizen with reference to
Europe.

h. 15.00
Jacques Hymans (Harvard University), Reconciling Historical Geopolitical
Identities in Europe: France and Germany

h. 15.30
Julian Dierkes (Princeton University), The Absence, Decline and Rise of the
Nation/Europe: History Textbooks in the two Germanys

h. 16.00
Yasemin Soysal , Teresa Bertilotti and Sabine Mannitz (University of Essex),
Projections of Europe in French and German History Textbooks

h. 16.30 Coffee break

h. 17.00
Kate Taylor (European University Institute), Europe in English and Scottish
Education

h. 17.30
Miguel Pereyra (University of Granada) and Antonio Luz=F3n (University of
Granada) Europe and Regions in Spanish Education

Discussant and Chair: Hanna Schissler (Georg Eckert Institute)

h. 20.00 Dinner in Cave di Maiano, Ristorante "Graziella"

Saturday 16 June (Centro CISL), via Piazzola 71

III. Projecting Europe, Recasting the Nation
The future forms of Europe and European identity are matters of much
intellectual speculation and public interest. In scholarly and public
debates, European and national identity positions are generally set against
each other, with little regard for the ways in which transnational and
national constitutively inform each other engendering new identity positions
and practices and recasting old ones. This session will bring together
scholars and the practitioners of Europe to critically assess and reflect
upon the projects of identity set in motion in the civic and educational
spaces of Europe. What are the different visions of Europe advocated? And
ideas about how Europe should be taught? How do these ideas and visions of
Europe sit with national educational priorities and national identities? How
is the European Dimension in education understood and practiced by different
actors--by EU officials, by the national ministries of education and by the
practitioners of education?

h. 9.00
Daniela Finaldi (European University Institute), The "only" European Schools
in the European Union?

h.9.30
Giuseppe Massangioli (Head of Division "International affairs-Coordination
and planning" acting Director, DG Education, EU), La societ=E9 de la
connaissance pour une =E9conomie plus competitive et dynamique. Vers une
nouvelle approche europ=E9enne pour l'=E9ducation

h. 10.00
Joke van der Leeuw-Roord (Executive Director, European Standing Conference
of History Teachers' Association, EUROCLIO), History on the European Agenda

h. 10.30
Margaret McGhie (Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum),
Introducing the European Dimension in Schools

h. 11.00 Coffee break

h. 11.15
Falk Pingel (Georg-Eckert Institute), Europe in Schoolbooks

h. 11.45
Martin Lawn (University of Birmingham), Borderless Education: Imagining a
European Education Space in a Time of Brands and Networks

h. 12.15
Yasemin Soysal (University of Essex), Locating European Identity

Discussant and Chair: Bruno de Witte (European University Institute)

For more details on the Workshop please contact the administrative assistant
K. Wolf-Fabiani (e-mail: Kathy Wolf-Fabiani)

Updated on 24 May 2001 by Sergio Amadei, e-mail:
mailto:%20sergio.amadei@iue.it
Department of History and Civilization




Teresa Bertilotti
University of Essex
Department of Sociology
Colchester CO4 3SQ
Great Britain
Tel: + 44 1206 873054
Fax: + 44 1206 873410

"Rethinking Nation-state Identities" Research Project
One Europe or Several? Programme, ESRC
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