Abstract
Political entities such as nation states must, if they wish to reproduce themselves and maintain control over their subjects, find ways to inculcate in children understandings of the meaning of ‘good’ and ‘proper’ citizenship, in order to produce the kind of citizen who will believe in the state’s ideological legitimacy and who will work towards serving its interests. The formal education of the young is the primary way by which states seek to inculcate in children those virtues and values that are deemed necessary for becoming a good citizen, a process of social and cultural reproduction that is much more tightly controlled in divided societies such as Cyprus, in which political realities often give rise to specific political and ideological agendas that are promoted through public education.
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