Social Identity and the European Dimension
Social Identity and the European Dimension

Author: Michael Byram

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9789287144201

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This is about the way that knowledge of the culture of countries can be integrated into the teaching of their language. The curriculum development project involved more than one hundred teachers from several European countries and is the result of collaboration between the Modern Languages Division of the Council of Europe and the European Centre for Modern Languages in Graz. It is especially useful for teachers who are interested in introducing a cultural dimension to their teaching and teacher trainers who wish to provide in-service training.

Constructing Europe's Identity
Constructing Europe's Identity

Author: Lars-Erik Cederman

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781555878726

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The authors assess not only the benefits, but also the costs of attempts to assert a European identity. Referring to debates about the respective merits of deepening and widening, they address the equally important associated tradeoffs between exclusion and dilution: they point to the risks on the one hand of a Europe that excludes foreign goods, immigrants and entire countries, and on the other of an unfocused definition of Europe that may dilute the very values that a "European identity" is intended to protect.

Changing European Identities
Changing European Identities

Author: Glynis Marie Breakwell

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780750630085

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The political structure of Europe has changed and continues to do so. The changing allegiances of the popluations of Europe pose problems and challenges for social psychological theory. Changing European Identities explores these issues using social identity theory and alternative models such as alienation theory and representational identity theory. It provides a highly topical and relevant context for exploring the validity and limits of current theories. Providing a valuable new perspective on people's reactions to change in Europe, it will be useful for advanced scholars in psychology and other social and political sciences.

European Identity
European Identity

Author: Jeffrey T. Checkel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-02-05

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0521883016

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An ambitious volume which asks why hopes are fading for a single European identity, despite decades of European integration.

Contemporary Social Psychological Theories
Contemporary Social Psychological Theories

Author: Peter J. Burke

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 1503605620

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This text, first published in 2006, presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and developed these theoretical perspectives provide full descriptions of each theory and its background, development, and future. This second edition has been revised and updated to reflect developments within each theory, and in the field of social psychology more broadly. The opening chapters of Contemporary Social Psychological Theories cover general approaches, organized around fundamental principles and issues: symbolic interaction, social exchange, and distributive justice. Following chapters focus on specific research programs and theories, examining identity, affect, comparison processes, power and dependence, status construction, and legitimacy. A new, original piece examines the state and trajectory of social network theory. A mainstay in teaching social psychology, this revised and updated edition offers a valuable survey of the field.

Global Learning and Sustainable Development
Global Learning and Sustainable Development

Author: Helen Gadsby

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2011-04-08

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1136728929

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This book aims to provide a clear overview of the global learning, its development in policy and what this means for teachers in practice. It outlines the different ways in which global learning can be delivered as a cross-curricular theme, with examples of current activities and practice in schools.

The Self in European and North American Culture
The Self in European and North American Culture

Author: J.H. Oosterwegel

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9401103313

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How diverse or potentially overlapping are the numerous self-models, self-theories, and directions of self-research? It has become clear that the processes associated with the self are complex and diverse, and that many of the approaches associated with the self have been pursued in isolation. Moreover, the fact of there being different traditions within developmental and social psychology, as well as different traditions in Europe and North America, has also led to a certain cacophony when we examine the self-field as a whole. The chapters here confront these differences, trying to come to terms with phenomena that are overarching, that extend through the dimensions of developmental psychology, social psychology, motivation psychology, and parts of clinical psychology. The book as whole gives a clear presentation of the issues, questions and phenomena that surface in research fields known as self psychology.

The Evolution of European Identities
The Evolution of European Identities

Author: Graham Day

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-06-29

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1137009276

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The 'European project' is in a state of perpetual crisis in which the root cause is a lack of identification by ordinary citizens with Europe and European institutions. The Evolution of European Identities employs state of the art analysis of in-depth interviews by renowned practitioners to give a unique 'bottoms up' perspective on the development (or its lack) of a sense of 'European mental space'. Linking conceptual findings with case studies, the book provides unique insights into groups that have been especially sensitized by their life experiences to question what it means to be European in the twenty-first century. The groups explored in this book include: adults who experienced European education exchanges when young; transnational workers; civil society organization activists; persons involved in cross-border intimate relationships; farmers who are subject to European markets, regulations and subsidies; and migrants into 'fortress Europe'.