Overview
- Explores the impact of Education reform in Romania since 1989
- Discusses how global citizenship models are used in textbooks, curricula, and classroom practices to prepare young people to cope with the globalised world
- Argues that education reform ultimately continues to serve a nation-building agenda
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Media (PSEM)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“This book explores the role of European and global citizenship models in preparing young people to cope with the trials and tribulations of the current globalised world. The “forward”- looking approach clashes often enough with the reality of this post-communist country. Anyone interested in exploring the challenges of education and the tension between national and global citizenship in the 21st century should read this book!” (Hanna Schissler, Adjunct Professor of History, University of Hanover, Germany)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Simona Szakács is a postdoctoral researcher at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Brunswick, Germany. Her research is focused on the interplay between Europeanization, global cultural change, and post-socialist transformation in education from a transnational, wider-world perspective.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Europe in the Classroom
Book Subtitle: World Culture and Nation-Building in Post-Socialist Romania
Authors: Simona Szakács
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60258-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60257-8Published: 27 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86819-6Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60258-5Published: 13 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-7361
Series E-ISSN: 2662-737X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 280
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, History of Education, Schools and Schooling, Sociology of Education