AVATARIILE EVOLUTIVE ALE CONCEPTULUI ‘A EDUCA’
Evolutionary avatars of the concept ‘to educate’

Summary/Abstract: In this article – based on the situation of the Romanian texts of the 16th and 17th century – we will try to analyse and clarify how the semantic field ‘to educate’ is reflected by means of certain terms (a arăta ‘to show’, a vădi ‘to reveal’, a oblici ‘to prove’, a mustra ‘to scold’, a certa ‘to reprimand’, a pedepsi ‘to punish’, a căzni ‘to torture’, a învăţa ‘to learn/to teach’) as well as how such terms succeed in serving the complex necessities and the evolutionary avatars of the respective concept. In order to introduce readers to our topic, right from the beginning, we will outline the place of education (in its various aspects and forms), as reality subject to becoming, within the framework of bio-social processes and cultural activities.

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