Europe In The Classroom: World Culture And Nation-building In Post-socialist Romania (palgrave Studies In Educational Media)
by Simona Szakács /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book provides an unconventional account of post-1989
education reform in Romania. By drawing on policy documentation,
interviews with key players, qualitative data from everyday
school contexts, and extensive textbook analysis, this
groundbreaking study explores change within the Romanian
education system as a process that institutionalises world
culture through symbolic mediation of the concept ‘Europe’. The
book argues that the education system’s structural and
organisational evolution through time is decoupled from its
self-depiction by ultimately serving a nation-building agenda. It
does so despite notable changes in the discourse reflecting
increasingly transnational definitions of the mission of the
school in the post-1989 era. The book also suggests that the
notions of ‘nation’ and ‘citizen’ institutionalised by the school
are gradually being redefined as cosmopolitan, matching post-war
patterns of post-national affiliations on a worldwide level.
This book provides an unconventional account of post-1989
education reform in Romania. By drawing on policy documentation,
interviews with key players, qualitative data from everyday
school contexts, and extensive textbook analysis, this
groundbreaking study explores change within the Romanian
education system as a process that institutionalises world
culture through symbolic mediation of the concept ‘Europe’. The
book argues that the education system’s structural and
organisational evolution through time is decoupled from its
self-depiction by ultimately serving a nation-building agenda. It
does so despite notable changes in the discourse reflecting
increasingly transnational definitions of the mission of the
school in the post-1989 era. The book also suggests that the
notions of ‘nation’ and ‘citizen’ institutionalised by the school
are gradually being redefined as cosmopolitan, matching post-war
patterns of post-national affiliations on a worldwide level.