This paper uses Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) data on applications and entries to full-time undergraduate courses to examine the changing flows of students across the boundaries of the four countries of the United Kingdom (UK), over a period (1996-2010) that embraces parliamentary devolution. It asks whether the emergence of…

This study examines the formulation of national identity in Palestinian children by exploring their understanding of its paradoxes. Twelve Palestinian children were interviewed from cities, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank. The children express the multiple dimensions of national identity in terms of "self" and…

An American-based Biafran takes issue with Lindsay Barrett's version of the problems of reconciliation between Nigeria and Biafra, which appeared in an article in the October, 1969 issue of "Negro Digest . (KG)

The history of Quebec (Canada) nationalism from its beginnings with the British conquest of New France in 1759 to the present is discussed. (RM)

This article shows how the legitimization of the territory of a national community was going through a territorial and citizen-oriented pedagogy in which geography and history texts contributed to the elaboration of certain social representations that were part of the new Latin American nations' development process. Therefore, this paper reviews…

People's conceptual ordering of the universe has traditionally taken the form of dualism, "good and evil" and "us against them." In this age of nuclear weapons, this is highly dangerous thinking. We must rid ourselves of nationalism and commit ourselves to peace in all our dealings. (CS)

Believing that the 3-educational system of Yugoslavia can be understood only by considering its development in terms of the history of its three constituent republics, the author examines the educational histories of Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia before 1918. In spite of all measures introduced to promote literacy and education, the people had not…

Examines argument and the creation and maintenance of social identity. Discusses the relationship between argument and current research on the construction of identities. Presents two illustrations--one focusing on nationalism as given expression in the divided city of Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and another focusing on environmentalism as…

The world has experienced a dramatic increase in the number of new states in the past couple of decades. Many of these new countries are the result of ethnic nationalist movements dividing an existing state. Is the United States susceptible to the forces of division which we more commonly associate with the rest of the world? Or is the United…

Describes the emergence of scholarly thought that puts considerations of children and childhood at the center of the profound rethinkings of nationalism and the nation-state that have taken place within the last several decades. Introduces the international conference on children and nationalism from which articles in this journal derive, and…

Asserts that modern ideas about the nation can be characterized by an emphasis on outer boundaries, and that contemporary Norwegians put questions of units and boundaries into the foreground with particular force. Describes how boundaries are important in Norwegians' everyday lives, most notably in current debates about raising children and about…

This essay is an inquiry into the nature of the world order. The author presents a challenging perspective of modern international affairs by discussing the characteristics of the city-state, nation-state, and world-state from the times of the Greeks to the present. (Author/RM)

Examines the validity of Canada's claim to her Arctic regions. Discusses the idea of sovereignty and the bases upon which Canada and other nations have asserted ownership of the Arctic archipelago. (GEA)

Education has been one of the major tools used by the Indonesian government to impose Indonesian identity in East Timor. The lack of success of this approach and the nationalist sentiment of East Timor are described, drawing from interviews with refugees from East Timor who have settled in Portugal. (SLD)

No great diminishment of nationalism is predicted; rather, interaction among the four dimentions of nationalism (traditional, striving, protective, and imperialistic nationalism) will sustain the nation-state and the interactions of those states in the international system of states. (Author/JB)