The Basque and Catalan questions since 1980

Our contemporary age is one where national identity retains important salience which can partly facilitate explanation. Teaching the Basque and Catalan questions since 1980 to British university students poses a number of challenges to educators. Themes that emerge in teaching about these political...

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Autor: Dowling, Andrew
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:273442
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/273442
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/tdevorado.186
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Pedagogy
Nationalism
Catalonia
Basque country
Social movements
Pedagogia
Nacionalisme
Catalunya
País Basc
Moviments socials
Pedagogía
Nacionalismo
Cataluña
País Vasco
Movimientos sociales
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Sumario:Our contemporary age is one where national identity retains important salience which can partly facilitate explanation. Teaching the Basque and Catalan questions since 1980 to British university students poses a number of challenges to educators. Themes that emerge in teaching about these political conflicts in Spain include state violence, terrorism, nationalism and social movements, minority languages and immigration. Some issues are more complex than others to consider particularly those around political violence and terrorism. However potentially sensitive material does not mean it cannot be tackled. This was a course that sought to demonstrate that questions of identity are contingent and continually subject to re-creation and re-interpretation. The goal of university education should be to explain why these disputes and their causation are contested and inseparable from historically inflected political framing.