CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Mun, Olga |
|---|---|
| Title | (Re)constructing citizens through citizenship education in Kazakhstan |
| Summary | In the foundation of this study lies an attempt to study how citizenry is depicted in the ninth, tenth, eleventh grade civic curriculum in Kazakhstan. Instrumental in the study was analysis of nine textbooks and handbooks in Russian language via means of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) developed by Fairclough. The analyzed textbooks concern the period 2007 - 2014 years and present the most recent materials available at the moment of thesis writing. Results revealed that the construction of the nation is one-dimensional, primarily highlighting the importance of one Kazakh ethnicity. Study concluded that regardless of state discourses on the importance of multiculturalism, the content of high school curriculum did not include equal attention to representing cultures of ethnic national minorities. In result, such misrepresentation can be found discriminatory in context of a country in which representatives of more than 100 ethnicities reside. The content of the textbooks mimics state politics of nation building around titular Kazakh ethnicity. Despite state pronounced policy on multiculturalism, the culture of ethnic Kazakhs was presented as the core of the Kazakhstani citizenship. In short: Kazakhstani citizenship education focuses on patriotic beliefs and respect to Kazakh culture, rather than to cosmopolitan values for democratic citizenship. |
| Supervisor | Dr. Szabolcs Pogonyi |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/mun_olga.pdf |
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