The Nation in Ukraine's History Textbooks: A Civic, Ethnic or Cultural Cast?

dc.creator	Jan Germen Janmaat
dc.date	2006-05-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:36:11Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:36:11Z
dc.identifier	1477-5557
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/a9a5cf4526344dc88a6dbd60f9b8e741
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/22960
dc.description	Contextualisation This article combines insights from political science, history and sociology on the nature of nationalism in Eastern and Western Europe with empirical data on current educational practices in Ukraine. Although it is generally acknowledged that education is the major vehicle of state-led nation-building processes, not many scholars of nationalism have paid attention to education, nor have educationalists been much interested in examining the role of education in the transmission of patriotic values. This article is part of the growing body of literature that bridges the gap between these disciplines. Abstract: This article examines nation-building politics in the history textbooks of contemporary Ukraine. It argues that the textbooks advance a cultural conception of the Ukrainian nation based on the Ukrainian language. The choice for the Ukrainian language instead of other identity markers is explained by (1) the inability of Ukraine's current political institutions to provide alternative foci of identification, (2) the prevailing conviction amongst the political elite that language and nationhood are intimately related and (3) the need to distinguish Ukrainians from their 'elder brethren', the Russians. On the one hand, the finding that Ukraine adopts a cultural understanding of the nation supports Hans Kohn's civic-West / ethnic-East argument. On the other hand, this result does not exclude the possibility that the Ukrainian nation will increasingly define itself in civic terms, as Ukraine grows older.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Institute of Education, University of London
dc.relation	http://www.educatejournal.org/index.php?journal=educate&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=76
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1477-5557
dc.source	Educate~, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 7-15 (2006)
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	The Nation in Ukraine's History Textbooks: A Civic, Ethnic or Cultural Cast?
dc.type	article