ISSUES CONCERNING THE PLACE OF THE MORAL DIMENSION OF EDUCATION IN ROMANIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL - TEACHERS’ OPINION
ISSUES CONCERNING THE PLACE OF THE MORAL DIMENSION OF EDUCATION IN ROMANIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL - TEACHERS’ OPINION

Author(s): Adina Popovici
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Sociology, School education, Educational Psychology, Methodology and research technology, Pedagogy
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: education; moral development; primary school; values;
Summary/Abstract: The moral education aims at the formation of the individual according to the norms and rules that define the relationships between people, to the values promoted by a society. The moral profile of the personality is shaped by the family, developed by the school, and strengthened throughout the entire life. In this sense, schooling has a major importance, being the period when the automatisms on which the subsequent behavior habits will be built are formed. Moral education remains a great challenge in the current Romanian education. The peculiarity is given by the way in which the communist regime in Romania tried, and to a large extent succeeded, to use this classic dimension of education ideologically and practically, until 1989, when the political regime changed. In this context, our research aims to identify the place that moral education has in Romanian primary school, after more than 30 years since communism has failed. The results show that the moral dimension of education is a permanent concern of the teachers (85,1%), that it should have a specific subject in the curriculum (83,9%), and that teachers for primary school consider themselves responsible for the moral development of the students in the classes they manage (88,8%).

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