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Learning National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Structural Equation Model of Secondary School Students' Identities

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When the Bosnian war ended with the signing of the Dayton Accords in 1995, the fight over ethnically cleansed territory moved from the battlefield into the classrooms. In an attempt to foster group identities and national cultures, many schools throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) have continued the segregation that resulted from the war. This paper examines the identities of secondary school students from twelve schools in six towns in BiH that vary in their curriculum usage and segregation levels, using data collected in May 2004 with an original survey instrument (N = 2,989). The survey gauged the orientation of individuals’ identities, comparing their identification with their national group to their identification with the state of BiH. By employing structural equation modeling. this paper contributes to the conceptualization and measurement of national identity as it is realized at the individual level. Further, it demonstrates that differences in the organization of schools and the curricula that they use are associated with profound differences in the orientation of student identities. Most striking are the opposite effects associated with attending school in the other group’s curriculum found among Bosniak and Croatian students.

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Levy, Naomi. "Learning National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Structural Equation Model of Secondary School Students' Identities" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40355_index.html>

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Levy, N. , 2005-09-01 "Learning National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Structural Equation Model of Secondary School Students' Identities" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40355_index.html

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Abstract: When the Bosnian war ended with the signing of the Dayton Accords in 1995, the fight over ethnically cleansed territory moved from the battlefield into the classrooms. In an attempt to foster group identities and national cultures, many schools throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) have continued the segregation that resulted from the war. This paper examines the identities of secondary school students from twelve schools in six towns in BiH that vary in their curriculum usage and segregation levels, using data collected in May 2004 with an original survey instrument (N = 2,989). The survey gauged the orientation of individuals’ identities, comparing their identification with their national group to their identification with the state of BiH. By employing structural equation modeling. this paper contributes to the conceptualization and measurement of national identity as it is realized at the individual level. Further, it demonstrates that differences in the organization of schools and the curricula that they use are associated with profound differences in the orientation of student identities. Most striking are the opposite effects associated with attending school in the other group’s curriculum found among Bosniak and Croatian students.

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LEARNING NATIONAL IDENTITY IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: A STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODEL OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ IDENTITIES* Naomi Levy Doctoral Candidate Department of Political Science University of California Berkeley naomi.levy@berkeley.edu * This is a draft. Please do not cite. ABSTRACT When the Bosnian war ended with the signing of the Dayton Accords in 1995 the fight over ethnically cleansed territory moved from the battlefield into the classrooms. In an attempt to foster group identities and national cultures many schools throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH)
Bosnia-Herzegovina. Nash Gary B. Charlotte A. Crabtree and Ross E. Dunn. 1997. History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past. 1st ed. New York: A.A. Knopf. Podeh Elie. 2000. History and Memory in the Israeli Educational System. History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past 12 (1):65. Sadowski Yahya M. 1998. The Myth of Global Chaos. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. Wertsch James V. 1997. Narrative Tools of History and Identity. Culture & Psychology 3


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