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- Title
Between Punishment and Reward: Pupils Families in the Service of Communist Education.
- Authors
Mihalache, Cătălina
- Abstract
In modern Romania, the idea of co-opting family in the school's educational effort appeared with the first Organic Law of Education (1864), when elementary studies were decreed mandatory and free. Gradually, this pressure grew bigger under the ministers who insisted the most on the extension of the school impact upon the Romanian society (Spiru Haret, Constantin Angelescu). In the mid-'40s, the communist regime adopted this institutional policy, on which it grafted new means of intervention - coercive ones, in most cases - and a new ideology, directly inspired bythe Soviet model. Nevertheless, the relationship between school and family never reached the optimal degree the authorities were looking for. The students' families managed to identify ways to negotiate their collaboration, obtain increased advantages, ignore the school demands or even oppose it, while remaining inside the framework of an authoritarian relational pattern. To identify the characteristic and evolution of this type of relationship between school and the students' families, we intend to investigate autobiographical writings referring to the period in question, as well as the educational literature of those years, confronted with the accessible archive documents - such as accounts of the school meetings with parents or internal reports of school authorities.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; COMMUNIST education; IDEOLOGY; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; EDUCATION policy
- Publication
Caietele Echinox, 2010, Vol 19, p45
- ISSN
1582-960X
- Publication type
Article