TY - JOUR A1 - Rohde-Liebenau, Judith T1 - Raising European Citizens? European Identity in European Schools JF - JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies N2 - Abstract Citizens' identification with Europe could consolidate European integration. European Schools, created for children of EU officials, should mirror the EU's vision of citizens of member states united in (national) diversity. Instead, this study reveals that European School students construct an explicitly European in‐group and deviate from EU visions by differentiating themselves from a more national and less mobile lifestyle. The article draws on qualitative content analysis of in‐depth and focus group interviews with teachers and 101 students in European Schools in Germany, Luxembourg and England. This elucidates the relationship between European schooling and this peculiar but ultimately European identity. In a dual mechanism, by ‘doing Europe’, students actively nourish a transnational social network in school; by ‘telling Europe’, students are more passively exposed to European and diverse national narratives. Both the analysis of how their European identity emerges and descriptive underpinnings show the complexity of European identity construction even under most favourable conditions. KW - - KW - European identity KW - European Schools KW - in‐group/out‐group KW - causal mechanism Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13050 SP - 1 EP - 19 ET - 2020 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rohde-Liebenau, Judith T1 - EU identity visions and narratives of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in European Schools JF - European Societies N2 - In ‘European Schools’, created for children of EU officials, narratives of European identity among students could match EU visions. Yet, students’ individual narrations of their identities are more complex. The study systematises these narratives of Europeanness: cosmopolitan, multinational and transnational notions of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Qualitative thematic analysis provides perspectives on what ‘being (not) European’ means for EU, European Schools and teachers – and most importantly, it disentangles identity narratives of European School students. Based on interviewing 101 students across three schools, the analysis shows that EU and European School propositions of a multinational European identity differ from teachers’ and students’ cosmopolitan and transnational narratives. At the EU level, Europeanness implies an ‘out-group’ of a nationalist, war-torn past. Students contradict EU visions by widening teachers’ antinationalist narrative and excluding people within Europe. They exclude intolerant and narrow-minded, but more generally people who are more national and less mobile than their ‘in-group’. Systematically comparing European identity narratives thus helps to uncover these contradictions. Not all narratives about Europe are available to everyone and individual opportunities to partake in mobile, multilingual Europeanness need reconsideration. KW - European identity, European schools, narratives, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, us/them Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2022.2101679 VL - 24 IS - 4 SP - 409 EP - 430 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Graf, Lukas A1 - Rohde-Liebenau, Judith T1 - Two instruments, one melody: The parallel evolvement of European and German alliances for apprenticeships JF - European Educational Research Journal Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041221148282 ER -