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Educarea adulţilor în istoria societăţii româneşti (Perioada modernă)
The Adult Education in the History of the Romanian Society

Author(s): Sorina Caloian
Subject(s): Cultural history, History of Education
Published by: Muzeul de Istorie „Paul Păltănea” Galaţi

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the ways of adult education in the Romanian modern history. The main forms are: - Schools for adults, with their precious role in the intellectual education of the masses. - Popular evening sittings. The evening sitting is the oldest cultural manifestation which entered, by tradition, in the life of the Romanian village. - Cultural centres. Cultural centres constituted one of the organized forms of mass education initiated by Spiru Haret. - Chat and reading houses. - Popular libraries. - Popular Athenaeums.

  • Issue Year: XXIV/2006
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 207-220
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian