The Discourse of Majority in Romanian Textbooks: Nationalism Versus Europeanism

In the following paper we will critically analyze the discourse of the History Textbook from the period 1976-2011 in order to put emphasis on changes in the presentation of History reflected in a didactic context depending on the dominant socio-political options. Our study reveals these differences from the perspective of orienting the ethnocentric discourse from the ‘80s and 90's to an Eurocentric one in the years leading up to the country's integration in the European community. The theoretical framework offered by the theory of symbolic violence presented by Bourdieu allows us to illustrate the role of the formal curriculum in imposing certain systems of meaning and ideology.