Documentarul statistic al învăţământului preuniversitar în limba maghiară din România, 1948-1989. Inventarierea şi hermeneutica evidenţelor educaţionale
Statistical report on school education in Romania in the Hungarian language, 1948-1989: An inventory and hermeneutics of the educational evidence

Summary/Abstract: Under the communist regime, the evidence related to education in Hungarian mother tongue was under restricted access, except for two statistical yearbooks in which only limited data was available. At present, 28 years after the fall of the Romanian communist regime, public access to archived records is considerably easier. However, for the period 1948-1989, a statistical report on education in the Hungarian language hasn’t been done so far. Given the lack of descriptive data, our inquiry has sought to portray a history of Hungarian mother tongue school education in Romania in the communist era as it has been revealed following our enterprise of collecting, selecting, sorting and analyzing data from relevant statistical yearbooks, statistical reports on education and the other published or unpublished statistical records. After the reconstruction of a satisfactory set of documents containing data on the number of schools, number of enrolled pupils and number of teaching staff, our research was focused on a trend analysis. Finally,contrasting these findings with the legislative and political context, we tried to provide some answers on how and why the communist regime had limited the mother tongue education opportunities of the Hungarian population in Romania.

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