A Transition in Citizenship from Communist to Post-Communist Slovakia

This is a qualitative analysis of two civics curriculum documents spanning Slovakia s transition from communism to post-communism. I explore the conceptions of citizenship through public school curriculum documents, and compare notions of (Czecho) Slovakia s communist citizen in post 1968 with notions of Slovakia s post-communist citizen after 1993. The documents help reveal their respective regime s conceptions of citizenship designed to promote and sustain specific societal objectives. I contextualize these documents with the prevalent internal and external forces framing both post 1968 citizenship and post 1993 citizenship. In this way I am able to connect the historical, political and economic factors that defined the state and citizenship with their public school curricula.

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Peter J. Zavodny está realizando su doctorado en la Universidad de York, en Canadá. Completó su Máster en Educación en la Universidad de York en 2006, y se licenció en Educación en York en 2003. El primer título universitario de Peter fue su licenciatura en Economía Política por la Universidad de Princeton en 2001.