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In this chapter, Szakács reflects on the ideal of the ‘good citizen’ and inquires as to how the transnationally affirmed redefinition of the citizen is expressed in post-socialist Romanian citizenship education in textbooks, curricula and school enactments. She finds that the ‘new’ Romanian citizen as projected in the content of post-socialist citizenship educational media is an individually empowered, locally involved, socially responsible and globally concerned person, universally endowed with human dignity and human rights. This tendency is convergent with post-war trends in worldwide social studies curricula and textbooks, and is matched by a corresponding change in terms of everyday practice, in particular by an increasing discursive legitimisation and enactment of student-centred pedagogies.
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Szakács, S. (2018). The Construction of the Empowered Cosmopolitan Citizen. In: Europe in the Classroom. Palgrave Studies in Educational Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60258-5_5
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