Education as Violence. Primary Education  in the Rural Areas on Interwar Bessarabia: from Corporal punishment to symbolic violence Cover Image

Educaţia ca violenţă. Învăţământul primar rural din Basarabia interbelică: de la pedeapsă corporală la violenţă simbolică
Education as Violence. Primary Education in the Rural Areas on Interwar Bessarabia: from Corporal punishment to symbolic violence

Author(s): Petru Negură
Subject(s): History of Education, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Bessarabia; primary education; corporal punishment; social history; inter-war period

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to follow up the institutionalization process of the primary education in the rural areas of Bessarabia (today Republic of Moldova), during the inter-war period (1918-1940), from the perspective of the application of the corporal punishment in the public schools. The application of the corporal punishment also interacted with certain matters related to the everyday process of the primary education in the villages, such as the teachers’ relationships with the local community, the school attendance, or the internal group dynamics within the pedagogical collectives in the rural schools. The corporal punishment was codified and became increasingly scarce in the inter-war years, correspondingly with the change of the attitudes both of the teachers and the pupils’ parents towards the primary school.

  • Issue Year: 10/2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 79-101
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Romanian