The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or: John Dewey Meets Ceauşescu

Released on by Annette Cristescu, Radu Freyberg-Inan
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  • The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or: John Dewey Meets Ceauşescu Book Detail

  • Author : Annette Cristescu, Radu Freyberg-Inan
  • Release Date : 2006-01-16
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Genre : Political Science
  • Pages : 194
  • ISBN 13 : 3898214168
  • File Size : 53,53 MB
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The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or: John Dewey Meets Ceauşescu by Annette Cristescu, Radu Freyberg-Inan PDF Summary

Book Description: How can democracy be learned? And how successful are we at teaching and learning it?This book does three things: First, it explains why civic education is important for the growth and survival of (any type of) democracy. Second, it focuses on a particular country, which is in many ways representative for the general problems of post-communist transition to democracy. It carefully examines the practical reality of civic education in Romania both at the level of general schooling and in higher education. Emphasis lies on the ways in which the ideals of civic education clash with post-communist realities and on the obstacles that continue to exist in this transition country to the democratic empowerment of citizens through education. Scarcity of resources, corruption in many forms, and attitudes of deference to authority, among other problems, perpetuate a situation in which education fails to support democratization and instead reflects the failures of regimes of the past. Third, the book offers concrete recommendations for how civic education in Romania (and elsewhere) can be improved. How can education be organized to suc-cessfully support the realization of democratic ideals?This book is based on its main author’s direct experience working in the field of civic education in Romania between 1999 and 2005 and draws on her wider expertise in the study of Romanian political economy and the country’s European integration as well as in the fields of political psychology and democratic theory. It is of particular interest for teachers and social scientists willing to reflect on the implications of their teaching or research for democratic empowerment, for policymakers and activists who seek to support processes of democratization, as well as for students of post-communist transition countries in general and of Romania in particular. It provides an accessible, informative, and frequently humorous account of lofty ideals clashing with harsh realities on the battlefield of democratic emancipation.

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