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How to teach the EU

How to teach the EU. Professor R. Daniel Kelemen Director, Center for European Studies Rutgers University. Teaching Resources: EU Centers of Excellence. Network of European Union Centers of Excellence : http://www.euce.org/education/ Which includes: Lesson Plans Multimedia Resources

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How to teach the EU

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  1. How to teach the EU Professor R. Daniel Kelemen Director, Center for European Studies Rutgers University

  2. Teaching Resources:EU Centers of Excellence • Network of European Union Centers of Excellence: http://www.euce.org/education/ • Which includes: • Lesson Plans • Multimedia Resources • External Links • University of Washington: http://jsis.washington.edu/euc/educators/#web_resources • University of Pittsburgh: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/euce/outreach/index.html • Teach Europe Resources page: http://www.teacheurope.org/resources.php • New York Times, Learning Network Blog: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com • Outreachworld http://www.outreachworld.org/

  3. Outline • The bad news: I don’t know how to teach high school or middle school students. You do! • Resources for teaching the EU • Some Major themes • Discussion

  4. Teaching Resources:EU resources • EU Resources • EU Delegation to the US Teaching Resources: http://www.eurunion.org/eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2144&Itemid=9 • EU Teachers’ Corner: http://europa.eu/teachers-corner/ • The EU in Slides: http://europa.eu/abc/euslides/index_en.htm • EU Kid’s Corner: http://europa.eu/europago/welcome.jsp • EU Games/Quizzes Competitions: http://europa.eu/quick-links/eu-kids/index_en.htm • EUtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/eutube

  5. EU Resources:News • BBC Europe: • http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/europe/2003/inside_europe/default.stm • EU Observer: http://euobserver.com/ • NPR: • http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128407020

  6. Major Themes:What does the EU help us teach? • Interdependence and Cooperation • Nationalism, Language and Identity • Diversity, Multiculturalism and Immigration • Enlargement and challenges of political unification (parallels with the US) • Europe as model? Benefits of integration

  7. Interdependence and Cooperation • EU is most successful example in world history of countries working together to solve common problems • EU countries are interdependent. They face common challenges that none can solve alone: • Environment • Economic Globalization • Defense / Security

  8. Nationalism, Language, Identity • Nationalism discredited by WWII • But languages and identities remain national • Can Europe craft a stronger ‘common identity’ • First build Europe, then Europeans?

  9. 23 Official Languages

  10. Can Europe Craft Common Identity? • Common symbols • Exchange programs

  11. Diversity, Multiculturalism and Immigration • Muslims in Europe • http://www.euce.org/assets/doc/education/k12/mich_muslims_in_europe.pdf • The Veil Controversy • http://www.unc.edu/depts/europe/conferences/Veil2000/burqa.htm • The Danish Cartoon Crisis • http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/d/danish_cartoon_controversy/index.html • http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/02/06/printing-error/ • EU vs. France over the Roma • http://euobserver.com/9/31074

  12. Enlargement • Bridge to the Future: http://euce.org/assets/doc/education/k12/UW-EUcurriculum_bridge.pdf • Debating Benefits and Challenges of EU Membership: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/western-union-debating-benefits-and-challenges-of-eu-membership/ • Council for Economic Education: Enlarging the European Union • http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=163&type=educator • Outreach world: • http://www.outreachworld.org/Files/university_of_washington_seattle/enlarging_the_eu.pdf

  13. Major EU Achievements • Peace • Enlargement • Internal market • The Euro • Environmental Policy ..and many more

  14. From war to peace … to the ‘Love Parade’ in Berlin From the rubble of Dresden…

  15. From war… • Centuries of warfare culminating in: • WWI – over 15 million casualties • WWII – over 50 million casualties, including 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust

  16. …to peace • On Bastille Day 1994, a German battalion marched down the Champs-Elysées… and they were invited! • War between France and Germany is now unthinkable • EU is moving toward a common defense policy

  17. EU Enlargement: From 6 to 27

  18. Enlargement: from six to 27 countries 1952 1973 1981 1986 1990 1995 2004 2007

  19. ENLARGEMENT 1957: France, Italy, Germany, Bel., Neth., Lux 1973: Denmark, Ireland, UK 1981: Greece 1986: Spain, Portugal 1995: Finland, Sweden, Austria 2004: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Czech Rep., Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta, Cyprus 2007: Bulgaria and Romania

  20. Enlargement • Helped spread and stabilize democracy across Europe • Brought prosperity to ailing economies

  21. Internal Market Education Investment Travel Communications Free Trade Retirement in the sun

  22. Internal Market • Market power: The EU has the world’s largest market and is America’s biggest trading partner • Businesses benefit • Consumers benefit • Economic performance improves

  23. From many….

  24. … to one: the Euro

  25. The Euro • Value of € in circulation now exceeds $ • Gaining ground as reserve currency (roughly 25% of global reserves) • Business benefits • Consumer benefits

  26. Environmental Policy • EU has become world leader on environmental policy • EU has spread high environmental standards across Europe - Climate Change Policy - REACH Chemicals law • Automobile recycling

  27. To stop global warming, EU leaders decided in 2007 to: • reduce greenhouse gas emissions • by 20% by 2020 4 improve energy efficiency by 20% by 2020 4 raise the share of renewable energy • to 20% by 2020 (wind, solar, hydro power, biomass)

  28. Europe as model? • We mostly hear bad news about Europe • But ‘European Model’ is attractive to many around the world • Less militaristic foreign policy • Stronger support for environmental protection • More social security • Can it be sustained?

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