Патриотизъм, национализъм, гражданство и около
Patriotism, Nationalism, Citizenship, and Beyond

Summary/Abstract: This text is a review of an online English-language journal Journal of Social Science Education (www.jsse.org, 1/ 2011). The main question which is posed by its articles is: What kind of political order has been legitimated by premised subjective categories within curriculum and learning process? Articles can be divided along the lines of authors’ attitudes – activist and/ or analytical – and also there is a difference based on the texts’ contexts – Europe, USA, Asia, etc. The analytical texts by means of discourse analysis from historical and comparative perspectives show how different national identities and nationalities are constructed. What is interesting to be seen from activist’s point of view is how the notion of “liberal state” is taken for granted. That is why interpretations of curriculum pass by rights and freedoms, on the other hand, learning process should simulate public sphere premising communicational equality. There is also a review of Martha Nussbaum’s book Not For Profi t. Why Democracy Needs the Humanities and tables which are translated into Bulgarian and published in the present issue of Critique and Humanism. The tables show different visions of citizen within different ideologies. This volume of Journal of Social Science Education gives a global perspective on educational problems in different parts of the world.

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