De peuple sauvage au peuple fondateur : l’image des Amérindiens et des Daces dans les manuels scolaires du Québec et de la Roumanie
From Savage People to Founding People: the Image of the American Indians and Dacians in the Textbooks of Quebec and Romania

Summary/Abstract: This article, which combines the results of a doctoral research on national heroes in Romanian literature and history textbooks, and those of a postdoctoral research on citizenship education through Quebec history teaching, aims to analyze the discourse on the indigenous population (later considered a founding people), in textbooks from both Quebec and Romania. More specifically, it focuses on the image of the American Indians and that of the Dacians in literature and history textbooks, as they are pictured at the beginning of the twentieth century and nowadays. What we are trying to demonstrate is that “the founding people” is a construction that depends heavily on the political power.

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