COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY IN ROMANIAN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY IN ROMANIAN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Summary/Abstract: The role of education in the communist society is a privileged one, since it has the mission to disseminate and inculcate the values promoted by the totalitarian regime. After 1948, the education of children in schools is paying more and more its tribute to the partyřs political and ideological objectives. To make room for the new unique textbooks and for the school curriculum modelled on Soviet example, all textbooks designed before 1947 are substituted. The unique textbook, turned into a propaganda tool, makes its active contribution to the education of pupils in the communist spirit. Authors of literary value are replaced in the Romanian textbooks by writers whose texts serve the interests of the single party. Vulnerable to the changes from the public space, the Romanian textbook aims to develop the studentsř aesthetic taste by selecting and ranking the literary values the party needs. The changes in the partyř policy will influence the texts chosen to be published in the textbooks. The children will suffer from the excesses of the regime.

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