Abstract

AFONSO, Almerindo Janela  and  RAMOS, Emílio Lucio-Villegas. Nation-State, Education and Citizenships in Transition. Rev. Port. de Educação [online]. 2007, vol.20, n.1, pp.77-98. ISSN 0871-9187.

Starting by calling attention to the plurality of historical processes and meanings that underlie the idea of nation and State, the authors deal with some approaches that help to clarify conceptual differences and to understand the construction of possible convergences often referred by the expression of nation-State. With the contribution of the State funded school (public school) and the processes of symbolic violence (and even, in many situations, of the use of physical violence), the construction of citizenship initially occurs depending on that political and identitarian binominal; however it has been changing as far as other historical, economic and social processes and political and cultural democratization are under development. Facing contemporary shifts in progress and considering its implications in educational terms, the authors propose the expression citizenships in transition to stress the present instability of the concept of citizenship, now framed by the redefinition of the role of the State and the possible disarticulation of the binominal nation-State, as well as by the processes of globalization and trans-nationalization.

Keywords : Nation-State; Globalization; Education; Citizenship redefinition.

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