The Dynamics of Civic Identity Construction in Post-War and Newly Independent Kosovo: A Discourse Analysis of Citizenship Education Curriculums and Textbooks in the First Decade of the 2000s
Keywords:
Identity Construction, Discourse, Citizenship/Civic Identity, Citizenship Education, KosovoAbstract
This paper analyses the process of creation of the new citizenship identity among young people in Kosovo through formal education, specifically, through mandatory Citizenship Education courses in schools. A discourse analysis of the Citizenship Education Curriculum and Textbooks, employed in this paper identified five major components of the civic identity among young people that was promoted, in the first decade of 2000s in Kosovo: 1. Political and Social Literacy, 2. Political and Social Participation, 3. Cosmopolitanism and not nationalism 4. Media, environmental and global critical thinking, and 5. European and International integration. The paper discusses the attempts, governmental official discourse, to create a new system of meaning about the new civic identity in relation to Kosovo's unique statue of a post-war and newly independent, who although has not yet fully reconciled with the past, is in the process of re-definition of statehood and identity.
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