RT Journal Article
T1 Andalusian university students’ perception of their European identity: international orientation and experiences
A1 Méndez García, María del Carmen
A1 Cores Bilbao, Esther
A1 Moreno Gámez, Laura
AB Multicultural European societies increasingly demand internationallyoriented citizens, who are willing to actively participate in civic life andable to successfully access the labour market. The European dimensionin education supposedly endows youngsters with civic values,multiculturalist attitudes and plurilingual competences which ultimatelylead to raising awareness of their Europeanness. Formative years atuniversity, pivotal to students’ individual life course and projects, are adecisive stage in the development of supranational, collective identity formation. Similarly, pan-European study programmes are aimed atinspiring a sense of European citizenship and identity, the mostrenowned of which within the Higher Education context is Erasmus+. Byconducting focus group interviews, this paper probes Andalusianuniversity students’ understanding of their European identity andverifies the causal dynamics between European identity-taking andforeign country sojourns, comparing the perceptions expressed byreturnees to those by students who have not had the opportunity toparticipate in international study programmes (ISP) at higher educationyet. Results evidence students’ apparent supranational orientation,general awareness of commonalities across Europe and utilitarianoutlooks on the EU, although not a clear discernment of its institutionsor a marked European identity.
PB Routledge
SN 0143-4632
SN 1747-7557 (electrónico)
YR 2019
FD 2019-11
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19751
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19751
LA eng
NO Méndez García, M.C., Cores Bilbao, E., Moreno Gámez, L.: "Andalusian university students’ perception of their European identity: international orientation and experiences". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 42:1, 79-96, DOI:  10.1080/01434632.2019.1682592
NO This study has been supported by the R + D project‘Musical aptitude, readingfluency and intercultural literacy of European university students”Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación ; (FFI2016-75452-R),funded by the Spanish MINISTERIO DE ECONOMÍA, INDUSTRIA Y COMPETITIVIDADThis study has been supported by the R + D project‘Musical aptitude, reading fluency and intercultural literacy of European university students” Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación ; (FFI2016-75452-R),funded by the Spanish MINISTERIO DE ECONOMÍA, INDUSTRIA Y COMPETITIVIDAD’.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026