RT Journal Article
T1 European democratic values and communicative competence on mobility programmes targeting adults
A1 Cores Bilbao, Esther
A1 Fernández Corbacho, Analí
AB EU educational mobility programmes have long been gearedtowards not only the promotion of intercultural communicativecompetence but also the uptake of European civic values. Whilethe linguistic and socio-cultural effects of European training mobilitieshave been extensively studied, their effectiveness in supportingactive citizenship and the emergence of shared communityvalues remains largely unexplored. Similarly, no previous researchhas attempted to systematise the various conceptualisations ofEuropean civic and democratic values invoked in mobility projectsaddressing the topic. To bridge this lacuna, this paper reviewsqualitative data from EU school-based mobility projects whosestated purpose, singularly or in conjunction with other educationalgoals, is the promotion of European civic awareness anddemocratic values among adult participants in a Spanish region.The methodological approach for the compilation of the corpusof project records, data extraction, and processing follows that ofQualitative Comparative Analyses. The results point to a broadoperationalisation of European civic and democratic themes inthe examined projects. The coexistence of a limited number ofspecific proposals for deliberate educational intervention aimed atpromoting democracy and European citizenship abroad, alongsidethe prevailing stance, posits a spontaneous acquisition of suchvalues through participation in transnational learning activitiesaimed at developing communicative, intercultural, and digitalskills, is also reported.
PB Taylor and Francis
SN 1478-9833 (electrónico)
SN 0266-0830
YR 2022
FD 2022-07-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24842
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24842
LA eng
NO Fernández-Corbacho, A., & Cores-Bilbao, E. (2022). European democratic values and communicative competence on mobility programmes targeting adults. Studies in the Education of Adults, 55(1), 138–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2022.2095750
NO This work was supported by the R+D project “Multiliteracies for adult at-risk learners of additional languages. MultiLits”. Project REF. PID2020-113460RB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/ 1
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 2 jun 2026