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ROMANIAN EDUCATION REFORM BETWEEN POLICY AND ACTION
ROMANIAN EDUCATION REFORM BETWEEN POLICY AND ACTION

Author(s): Adriana Nicu
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Universității Aurel Vlaicu
Keywords: reform; educational policy; politics; action; governance;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an overview of the Romanian educational system reforms after 1989 to the present. Analysis of educational reform over 25 years was carried out in relation to educational policy documents. Also, I delimited the previous reforms accession Romania at the EU and of the reforms postaccession Romania at the EU. The problem we face is translating these policies into educational practices. The purpose of this article is to highlight of the educational policy from this period, and the reasons why a lot of this policies have failed. The main cause that makes difficult the road from solutions developed on paper to the classroom is excessive politicization of education. Keeping the centralizing policies and the inability of assuming governance model is a severe barrier to the evolution of Romania. The education reform must be a political action of conjugation of the effort of the experts and long-term political commitment.

  • Issue Year: XV/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 21-33
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English