Doctoral Dissertation Research: Youth and Politics in Communist Romania (1980- 1989)

​这项研究将在罗马尼亚进行，涉及一种三角和混合方法的研究设计，包括对教育课程的档案研究、1989年后调查的二级数据分析和对前高中生及其教师的大约一百次深入访谈，重点是1975-1989年期间。访谈将在布加勒斯特和克鲁日进行，重点是教学过程以及在共产主义制度下青年成年的其他有关经验。这个项目更广泛的影响在于它对社会主义下日常生活的社会科学理解以及导致其垮台的因素的贡献。这项研究还试图通过对共产主义和极权主义背景的研究来解决当代关于政治社会化有效性的辩论，为当代民主公民教育的教学提供必要的背景和有益的教训。

This dissertation examines the effects of state controlled communist political socialization in communist totalitarian regimes. The research will take place in Romania and involves a triangulated and mixed methods research design consisting of archival research on the education curriculum, secondary data analysis of post-1989 surveys and approximately one hundred in-depth interviews with former high-school students and their teachers, focusing on the 1975-1989 interval. The interviews will be conducted in Bucharest and Cluj and will focus on the teaching and learning process as well as other relevant experiences of youth coming of age under communism. This project's broader impacts lie in its contribution to social science understanding of everyday life under socialism and the factors that led to its downfall. The research also seeks to address contemporary debates on the effectiveness of political socialization through research on a communist and totalitarian context, providing a necessary background and useful lessons for contemporary teaching of democratic civic education.