Europa Regina: A Past, Present, and Future Project (A Quam Expeti Propositum)

Abstract

This chapter shows, from a comprehensive and dynamic approach, a unitary idea of Europe that shatters the fragmentation and reification of the old continent that is being politically projected. The research, based on a brief overview of the geopolitical and territorial diversity of the Western European countries, recovers the cartographic representation of Europe made by Sebastian Münster in 1544. It aims to represent a renewed area that has strengthened its international presence, based on the legitimization of divergent trajectories explained through interactive logics.

The political agenda for socio-educational issues portrays the contextual diversity that rules the governance of the Western European education systems. At the same time, it shows unification regarding inclusive institutional paradigms where the most significant achievements are accomplished within the European strategic framework. The research allows us to move on from the nationalist–post-nationalist option. Part of the European scene from which present and future lines of joint action are extracted in relation to sustainability, economic digitization and/or reformulation of the social system model.

Citation

Martínez-Usarralde, M.-J. and Espejo-Villar, B. (2022), "Europa Regina: A Past, Present, and Future Project (A Quam Expeti Propositum)", Wolhuter, C.C. and Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) World Education Patterns in the Global North: The Ebb of Global Forces and the Flow of Contextual Imperatives (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 43A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 67-83. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-36792022000043A006