ETHICAL AND MORAL ASPECTS OF THE COMMUNIST EDUCATION AND THEIR REFLECTION IN THE HISTORY ROMANIAN

The paper intends to analyze the education process in Romania during communist regime, as it is reflected in the History textbooks. We focus on the ethics and moral aspects of it because all of them had underlined and promoted the communist human model of thinking, feeling and acting for younger people. The political ideology was including in textbooks, especially in the history ones. There are many images, texts, exercises which offer enough examples for students to (non)appreciate what thinks are good or not for students, what they have to feel, to act or not, who need or do not be appreciated. Also, these contents transmit to students the convincers, beliefs and values even if the teacher does not intend to focus on them. In this way the history textbook promoted a lifestyle for students. As a consequence, we demonstrated that the textbooks have been an important ideological tool, having a bigger impact to students' consciousness and behavior.