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This chapter analyses the incidence of lexemes with the stem europ* (in German) and euroop* (in Finnish) in two kinds of documents: in the national curriculum for the Finnish comprehensive school (POPS 2014) and for the Finnish upper secondary school (LOPS 2016), and in two German textbook series for Finnish upper secondary school. In the curricula, these incidences were recorded manually. With regard to the textbooks, the Voyant and AntConc software were used to collect data and visualise the frequencies. The second step was to identify concepts from the incidence of the lexemes: to what do they refer, and what are the contexts and connotations of the referential lexemes in the curricula and textbooks? Thus, the study seeks to reveal how concepts of Europe are constructed by curricula and textbooks, as potential conceptualisations to be taken up by students.
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A new curriculum framework for the upper secondary schools was developed in 2019, and came into force in 2021. It is not included here.
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In German, Deutsch als Fremdsprache.
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I would like to thank Heike Zinsmeister and Katja Gorbahn for their advice and support during this process.
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Many thanks to Markus Furrer, who provided particularly useful information on the use of the software and on the methodology in general.
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However, this information in the textbook is obviously wrong.
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Regarding this concept, see Lehtonen (2005).
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———. 2017c. Magazin.de 5. Otava: Helsinki.
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Lenk, H.E.H. (2023). Concepts of Europe in the Finnish Scholastic Curriculum and in German Textbooks for Finnish Secondary Schools. In: Gorbahn, K., Hallsteinsdóttir, E., Engberg, J. (eds) Exploring Interconnectedness. Palgrave Studies in Educational Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13960-4_4
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