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Philippou, Stavroula; Theodorou, Eleni – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2014
The accession of the Republic of Cyprus to the European Union in 2004 was anticipated to be a "catalytic" factor in developments towards a solution of the Cyprus problem at the political level. Within education, it was also seen as an opportunity for addressing diversity in a historically ethnocentric educational system through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Greek, Discourse Analysis, Ethnocentrism
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Philippou, Stavroula – Curriculum Journal, 2007
'Europe' has been increasingly 'invented' and 'reinvented' in discussions about education, curricula and identities over the last five decades. The 'European dimension in education' was a term increasingly used by the European Union and the Council of Europe to denote their educational policies encouraging national educational systems to endorse a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Geography, Content Analysis
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Philippou, Stavroula – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2007
This article explores the possibilities of shifting ethnocentric bias in curricula and pupils' constructions of national and European identities using the concept of "Europe" as a tool. The European dimension was conceptualized as a subtle approach, within the deeply divided society of Cyprus, to alleviate the ethnocentrism of history…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Educational Change
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Philippou, Stavroula – European Educational Research Journal, 2005
The European dimension in education has been a term increasingly used by the European Union and the Council of Europe to denote some of their educational policies and initiatives. It has also been a contested term in academic writing, as some researchers critique the elitist, exclusionary and Eurocentric educational implications it may have, while…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Textbooks, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries