The text highlights the role of the school in modern states as a mechanism aimed at cultural homogenisation and the formation of collective national identity. It analyses contemporary conceptions of the historicity of the nation according to which the national ‘self’ is defined in each case through the ‘others’. It stresses the importance of school textbooks as a privileged field for tracing representations of the national ‘self’ and national ‘others’ as cultivated in school.
The formation of national identity in the Greek school: “us” and the “others”
References
Avdela, E. 1997. The formation of national identity in the Greek school: “us” and the “others” in A. Fragoudaki and Th: Ethnocentrism in education, Athens, Alexandria.