Exploring Interconnectedness: Constructions of European and National Identities in Educational Media

ISBN-13: 9783031139598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Katja Gorbahn; Erla Hallsteinsdóttir; Jan Engberg

Opis

This volume explores the socio-cultural and media background of a critical and ongoing political challenge: the complex entanglement between European integration and strong national agendas in the context of globalisation. It does so using educational media - both textbooks and digital media - as sites of cultural contestation to enquire into the intricate relationships around national and European identities and aspects of students’ knowledge and reception. Using a variety of methods and technologies, the chapters analyse identity constructions present in educational media discourses, embedded as they are in their national and European contexts and as both the catalysts and products of their time. The book is a study of the post-digital condition in an educational context, exploring the potential of digital humanities and linguistic approaches for educational media research and employing methods such as eye-tracking or concept maps.

Spis treści

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

List of Tables

List of Figures

 

1 Introduction: European and National Identity Constructions in Educational Media

Katja Gorbahn, Erla Hallsteinsdóttir and Jan Engberg

 

Part I: Constructions of European and National Identities in Textbooks

 

2 Europe and the Nation in Current Swiss Textbooks

Markus Furrer

 

3 A corpus-based discourse analysis of the frequency and co-occurrences of DANMARK and EUROPA in textbooks for Danish as a foreign language

Katja Bethke-Prange

 

4 Concepts of Europe in the Finnish Scholastic Curriculum and in German Textbooks for Finnish Secondary Schools

Hartmut E. H. Lenk

 

5 Constructions of European Identity, Crisis Stereotypes and the Discursive Embedding of the Subject in Textbook Assignments

Magdalena Telus and Marcus Otto

 

Part II: Exploring Identity Constructions through Digital Analysis

 

6 Methodological Approaches to the Digital Analysis of Educational Media: Exploring Concepts of Europe and the Nation

Eckhard Bick, Katja Gorbahn, Nina Kalwa

 

7 Concepts of Europe in Danish and German Social Media: A Corpus-Linguistic Study Eckhard Bick

 

8 How to Strengthen Awareness of ‘Europe’: A Digital Analysis of Informational Material from the German Federal Agency for Civic Education

Kimmo Elo

 

Part III: Learners’ Concepts and Reception Processes

 

9 ‘Europe’ in our Minds: Identifying Knowledge Models Using Concept Maps

Corinna Dettbarn, Jörg Kilian and Erla Hallsteinsdóttir

 

10 Eye-tracking as a Scientific Method for Analysing Educational Media: State of the Art and Potential

Stefan Hackl

 

11 Images and Perceptions of Europe: Exploring a Multi-Perspective Design that Comprises Visual, Textual and Subjective Elements

Anja Ballis, Tobias Heinz, Mira Schienagel

 

Index

O autorze

Katja Gorbahn is Associate Professor of German History and Social Studies at the School of Communication and Culture, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Head of the research network Exploring Interconnectedness. Constructions of European and National Identities in Educational Media (EurEd), funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Erla Hallsteinsdóttir is Associate Professor of German Business Communication at the School of Communication and Culture, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a board member of the European Society of Phraseology.

Jan Engberg is Professor of Knowledge Communication at the School of Communication and Culture, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and co-editor of the international journal Fachsprache – Journal of Professional and Scientific Communication.

Blurb

This volume explores the socio-cultural and media background of a critical and ongoing political challenge: the complex entanglement between European integration and strong national agendas in the context of globalisation. It does so using educational media - both textbooks and digital media - as sites of cultural contestation to enquire into the intricate relationships around national and European identities and aspects of students’ knowledge and reception. Using a variety of methods and technologies, the chapters analyse identity constructions present in educational media discourses, embedded as they are in their national and European contexts and as both the catalysts and products of their time. The book explores the potential of digital humanities and linguistic approaches for educational media research and employing methods such as eye-tracking and concept maps.arch and employing methods such as eye-tracking or concept maps. 

Katja Gorbahn is Associate Professor of German History and Social Studies at the School of Communication and Culture, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Head of the research network Exploring Interconnectedness. Constructions of European and National Identities in Educational Media (EurEd), funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Erla Hallsteinsdóttir is Associate Professor of German Business Communication at the School of Communication and Culture, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a board member of the European Society of Phraseology.

Jan Engberg is Professor of Knowledge Communication at the School of Communication and Culture, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and co-editor of the international journal Fachsprache – Journal of Professional and Scientific Communication.