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92 EUROPEAN IDENTITY. INDIVIDUAL, GROUP AND SOCIETYConstruction of a European Feeling of Belonging: Educationalchallenges 10Bartolomé and others (in press) 11 insist that construction of a feelingof belonging to Europe must be made from a pedagogy of inclusionand social responsibility. The key elements are:1. Knowledge as foundation.2. Acceptance as a condition.3. Value as an impulse.4. Social cohesion and people’s development as a horizon.5. Intellectual citizenship as a process.The big majority of authors point out that in order to construct apeaceful Europe, a sense of belonging must be promoted viaeducation:—That takes into consideration national and ethnic multiculturalismand does not detriment national and regional identities.—That favours the internalization and appreciation of values andattitudes of cohesion and solidarity; democracy, social justice,and human rights.—That links to education for intercultural citizenship.—With an inclusive pedagogic focus surpassing the “we-they”opposition.For Rodriguez Lajo (2002) the challenge of “Fomenting the developmentof European identity,” would imply teaching and learning to:1. Know or have an updated view of Europe. This should be donefrom a new paradigm which, without distorting history, showsits most humanistic face and its different perspectives, whichcould be about:—Knowing dynamics of the European construction. That is, toanalyse its construction from a historical viewpoint and fromdifferent orientations (geopolitical, cultural, social, etc.)10A better development of these educational challenges about identity and theireducational implications can be seen in Rodriguez Lajo (2002), Berthelemy (1999), Ryba(1999), Bartolomá and others (in press).11Taking into consideration all these elements, they have created a series ofpedagogical marerials to work in the European dimension within secondary education.From this viewpoint a program has been created to develop ethnic-cultural identity instudents of the first cycle of Sandin secondary schools (1998).