Europe in the classroom [electronic resource] : world culture and nation-building in post-socialist Romania / by Simona Szakács.

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Europe in the classroom [electronic resource] : world culture and nation-building in post-socialist Romania / by Simona Szakács.

9783319602585 (electronic book)
3319602586
9783319602578 (print)

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (XIX, 280 pages 9 illustrations in color.) : online resource.

10.1007/978-3-319-60258-5 doi

LB43

370.116

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.

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