A bandwagon effect. Following the lead of 'New' history in Romanian textbooks.

Autor/in	Colacel, Onoriu
Titel	A bandwagon effect. Following the lead of 'New' history in Romanian textbooks.
Quelle	Aus: Bak, János M. (Hrsg.); Maier, Robert (Hrsg.): Mutual Images. Textbook representations of historical neighbours in the East of Europe. Braunschweig: Georg-Eckert-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Internationale Schulbuchforschung (2017) S. 63-83 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Eckert.Dossiers. 10
Beigaben	Literaturangaben S. 81-83
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Sammelwerksbeitrag
Schlagwörter	Multikulturelle Gesellschaft; Schulbuch; Geschichtsunterricht; Rumänien
Abstract	History textbooks currently used in Romanian secondary schools make a virtue out of going against the nation-centric bias of the communist history schoolbooks. Accordingly, their relationship to classic Romanian historiography should be one of conflict. However, I find that post-communist textbooks merely downplay a resilient strand of Romanian nationalism: they only hint that the current discourse of history brings about change. In other words, they bear testimony to the outstanding success of the nationalist textbook genre over the past several decades, irrespective of the regime change in 1989. Since 2001, there has been another twist in the master story of the nation as recorded in the language of history textbooks. Gradually, their authors have jumped on the 'new' history bandwagon. Factually, specific rhetorical commonplaces and sweeping statements that convey the idea of the multicultural past of the nation have made their way into Romanian history. They have gained momentum from one textbook to the next. Used somewhat indiscriminately, they impact the likely future of the genre: the story of the past features the same momentous events and iconic heroes of the nation. However, they amount to less myth-making, less jingoism and less national purpose in schoolbooks.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2018/2