Europe in the Classroom

World Culture and Nation-Building in Post-Socialist Romania

Simona Szakács (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIX, 280 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-86819-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Simona Szakacs 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.

Chapter 1. Post-Socialism, Europeanisation and Educational Change: Transgressing the Boundaries.- PART I.- Chapter 2. The Romanian Education System: A Historical Overview.- Chapter 3. Narratives of Change: Between Global Idioms and National Legacies.- Part II.- Chapter 4. Europe and the Reshaping of the Nation.- Chapter 5. The Construction of the Empowered Cosmopolitan Citizen.- Chapter 6. Conclusions: Understanding Europe's Role in the Post-1989 Romanian School.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.8.2018
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
Zusatzinfo	XIX, 280 p. 9 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	394 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
Schlagworte	Citizenship • Education and State Socialism • Europeanization • national identity • Nation-Building • Post-Socialist Romania • textbook research • World Culture
ISBN-10	3-319-86819-5 / 3319868195
ISBN-13	978-3-319-86819-6 / 9783319868196
Zustand	Neuware