Hezkuntzaren helburu zibikoak eta nazionalak Euskal Herriko erakunde abertzaleen esanean

Abstract

The guiding argument of this article is the impossibility of establishing a clear separation between civic and ethnic nationalism. On the contrary, the article affirms that both are usually employed to a greater or lesser degree. Starting from this idea, the difficulty of classifying Basque nationalism as either ethnic or civic is posed.
Hence, on analysing the civic and ethnic aspects of the educational discourse of Basque nationalism, we see that it works like any other and that it grants a preferential place to language and culture. However, to the extent that it is not a state nationalism, when it comes to formulating the aims of education, the national acquires an evident weight in comparison to the question of citizenship.
The general conclusion is that Basque nationalism has an educational discourse of a liberal type, and, at the same time, national education becomes a priority rather than civic education.