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12 EUROPEAN IDENTITY. INDIVIDUAL, GROUP AND SOCIETYperspectives, complementary in some cases and divergent in others,the text as a whole ultimately aims to assert the originality of Europeanculture: “the European spirit lies not only in plurality and change but inthe dialogue between pluralities which brings about change” 1 .By means of this book (this dialogue) on European Identity wewould like to “foster deep reflection on the reciprocal relationshipsbetween educational processes and European construction” and toanalyse the goals that were defined in Laeken in this respect: to bringcitizens, and particularly the young, closer to the European design andto promote real knowledge about European institutions. In short, wewould like to “strengthen the value of Europe, from the institutionalreferent to the personal referent, to establish the condition of beingEuropean, feeling European, considering oneself European, understandingoneself as European and living European”.Debates on the issue of European Identity have become inevitable.Proof of this are the various colloquies that the European Council hasorganized in Strasbourg to tackle and examine the notion of EuropeanIdentity 2 . Historians, philosophers, sociologists, theologians andpoliticians were summoned to these meetings with the idea of promotingsuch identity in the various member states. The wish of everyonewho contributed to the development of this Seminar was to take onestep forward: to analyse the everyday meaning of European Identity forall European citizens, particularly in the educational fields, and to point atelements that can help promote and anchor this concept.Our basic aim is to make aspects of European Identity and itseducational perspectives fully operative. In order to achieve this, thepresentation of the subject focused around a central theme: “individualgroup-society”,and the content was distributed into two blocks:“Europe from an Educational perspective” and “European Identity: NewChallenges for Schools”.The subtitle of the book: Individual, Group and Society providesevidence of the numerous interrelations that are (and must be)established throughout an individual’s growth process, within certainspatial and time connections and coordinates, and within theframework of a group socially defined by language, history andculture: aspects which characterize profiles and societies that are, in1Morin, E. (1990) Pensar Europa. Paris: Gallimard.2Council of Europe. Colloquy European Identity. 1 st part of the colloquy: La notiond´identité. Strasbourg, April 2001. Colloquy, 2 nd part: 20-21 September: Des identitésculturelles à une identité politique européenne. Final Colloquy, 18-19 April 2002:L´Europe demain: communauté de destin ou destinée politique commune?
INTRODUCTION 13turn, equally defined by the same indicators. In the case of Europe, themultiplicity of its member states, some of which are also multinational,and its multicultural and multireligious physiognomy encourages oneto observe the strategies and modalities that different institutional andcivil agents have considered and implemented vis-à-vis a politicalunion. This union can be accomplished through the application ofvarious organizational models and conceptual and operationalstructures.Nowadays, the notion of personal identity is indeed multiform dueto the diversity of relationships that the individual is bound to experience.The thematic interpretation in terms of identity construction isnow present in numerous situations. All of this seems to originate fromthe fact that the individual, its actions and its representations are onceagain the centre of scientific and social question marks. Identityconstruction is the referent in which strategies are formulated andpersonal beliefs are consolidated.The present-day reality of the realization of European citizenshiphas brought geographical limits into question. Greater emphasis is nowgiven to demarcations of socio-psychological nature, belonging to aparticular appreciation system and of shared behaviour patternsassumed through received socialization and education. We deem itsignificant to tackle the topic of European Identity, the meaning ofwhich is obtained from European-Community values granting participationand recognition to multinational, regional or local multiple identities.From this standpoint, we believe that the existing interdependencebetween individual —group— society, challenges the existence ofdifferent identity formulations, both local (= national) and regional(= Community and/or European), which education will have to adequatelyponder and balance.The starting point for our reflection was a formal conception of thenotion of European Identity (how someone can get to say “I amEuropean” and the impact this can have on his or her social andpolitical life, undoubtedly according to the content given by him or herto that “being European”). This analysis is reflected in the programmein the first two Sections of Block 1: What do we Mean When we SayEurope? and What Underlies European Policies? Institutional Objectivesin the Construction of a European Identity?This previous analysis of the notion of European Identity shapes thefollowing part of the programme in which some indispensableempirical questions are dealt with. Is self-identification as a Europeanreally becoming relevant for many people? For whom exactly? In whatcontexts? According to them, what does this European Identity that
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