What kind of citizens? Constructing ‘Young Europeans’ through loud borrowing in curriculum policy-making in Kosovo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11894483 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Armend Tahirsylaj (0000-0002-3902-0338, Department of Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115-129 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0068 • E-ISSN: 1360-0486 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03050068.2020.1845066 |
| OpenAlex | W3113311406 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 17 |
Kosovo introduced two major curriculum reforms over the past 20 years – in 2001 and 2011 – each aiming to bring education closer to international trends. Simultaneously, Kosovo underwent major political, social, and cultural changes after the war in 1999, and the declaration of independence in 2008. This article relies on document analysis and uses civic competences definitions in Kosovo and European Commission frameworks to compare conceptions of citizenship for democratic life along three theoretical constructs, namely personally responsible/individualist, participatory/social, and justice-oriented/political. It coins loud borrowing to describe the policy flow into Kosovo education, specifically focusing on the latest 2011 competence-based curriculum reform. The findings show that Kosovo’s curriculum alignment with the European Commission key competence approach in 2011 served larger political goals and aspirations to brand Kosovars as ‘Young Europeans.’ In addition, personally responsible/individualist conception and participatory/social conception of citizenship are dominant in Kosovo, as well as in European Commission frameworks
Citizenship · Commission · Competence (human resources · Curriculum · Democracy · Economics · Empowerment · Individualism · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Peace and Human Rights Education · Public Administration
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Introduction contextualising global flows of competency-based education
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Topological genealogy
From Content- to Competence-Based Curricula – An Educational Account of Curriculum Policy in Kosovo
Research Methods in Education
Education and the Democratic Person
The Human Condition
Document Analysis as a Qualitative Research Method
Undeclared imports
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Civic Education and Political Participation
Local Meanings, Global Schooling
Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis
Global Flows of Competence-based Approaches in Primary and Secondary Education
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |