Abstract

The significance of homeland has been a central element for the constitution of Greek national identity. The sovereign axis is the national mythology for the indivisible of Greek national history, but also the structure of identity itself. Nowadays nevertheless the increase of economic immigration “homeland” continues to be a powerful significance. As it appears in the sample that we present “homeland” condenses memories and reflects pictures and symbols of the past. The aim of this research is to locate the way with which children approach the significance of homeland. We have collected 146 drawings and we distinguish the three semiotic fields: syntactic, semantic, and realistic. The researching problem is the critical reading of the visual data which has been produced by children in the primary education. It seems that the patriotic ideal remains pluralist, since the human identity is multiple and can be connected with different national, geographic or political integrations.