L’ÉDUCATION ROUMAINE DE L’ENTRE-DEUX-GUERRES AUX ANNÉES DU COMMUNISME
ROMANIAN EDUCATION FROM THE INTERWAR PERIOD TO THE YEARS OF COMMUNISM

Summary/Abstract: Education is the field and activity of training and education (through the school); by extension all educational institutions. The history of Romanian education can be structured in parallel with the lines of formation of the Romanian state. Before 1800, education in the Romanian space was marked by limited educational opportunities. The political projects of the formation of the modern Romanian state in the first half of the 19th century favoured the increase of interest in the field of education, as well as the gradual construction of an educational system. In the evolution of modern education in Romania, from the Union of Principalities (1858) to the present day, seven pillars of change have been identified: 1864, 1924, 1948, 1968, 1978, 1995 and 2011. With regard to the evolution of education in the years of communism, three major moments have been noted: 1948, 1968 and 1978. After the First World War, the characteristics of education in Romania changed with the integration of the various systems, thanks to the Union of Principalities, which had the effect of increasing the territory and the number of citizens. At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet occupation completely changed the educational system in Romania. The liberal education system, of French registration, specific to the interwar period, was changed by a Stalinist system.

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