THE “ROMANIAN IDENTITY” FORMED THROUGH THE HISTORY TEXT-BOOKS OF THE FIRST DECADES OF THE 20TH CENTURY
THE “ROMANIAN IDENTITY” FORMED THROUGH THE HISTORY TEXT-BOOKS OF THE FIRST DECADES OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to find out how were educated the Romanian pupils of the first decades of the 20th century about their "Romanian identity". It is qualitative research, methodologically based on the analysis and comparison of the learning contents offered by Romanian history text-books at that time and of the appropriate school programs. Our analyze includes 10 Romanian history textbooks between 1900-1935 and their corresponding school-syllabus. The paper is organized on two sections. The first section will analyze the concept of "Romanian identity", theorized by some political and cultural Romanian personalities from the indicated period. The analysis of the learning offer from the perspective of its content, historical documents or visual material proposed by the History textbooks, represents the most important part of our paper. Our findings focus on elements of modernity and on specific aspects of education of that time, with positive effects on the formation of Romanian identity in young people that are studying history.

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