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....
This book provides an unconventional account of post-1989 education reform in Romania. By drawing on policy documentation, interviews with key play...
It analyses the way in which the `other' is presented in school textbooks, focusing on a number of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and argues that the role of textbooks in developing and maintaining a national identity should be afforded greater critical attention.
It analyses the way in which the `other' is presented in school textbooks, focusing on a number of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MEN...
This volume reflects on the role played by textbooks in the complex relationship between war and education from a historical and multinational perspective, asking how textbook content and production can play a part in these processes.
This volume reflects on the role played by textbooks in the complex relationship between war and education from a historical and multinational perspec...
