Aspects regardind cultural debates that took place in the County of Bacau at the beginning of the 20th century Cover Image

Aspecte privind activitatea cercurilor culturale din județul Bacău la începutul secolului al XX-lea
Aspects regardind cultural debates that took place in the County of Bacau at the beginning of the 20th century

Author(s): Cornelia Cucu
Subject(s): Education, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, History of Education, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Complexul Muzeal “Iulian Antonescu” Bacău
Keywords: cultural debates; Spiru Haret; Bacau; teachers; peasants;

Summary/Abstract: Becoming the leadership of the educational system in 1897, Spiru Haret widens the school’s responsabilities and conceives an extracurricular system meant to raise the cultural level of the population through education. Alongside with adult schools, literaly socials, an important role had the cultural debates. These represented an exchange of experience between teachers and a way of spreading culture in villages and raising the living level of the peasantry. This study presents the way in which teachers from Bacau County were involved in organizing and conducting the activities regarding cultural debates. The cultural debates will become real cultural ambulatory schools through addressing topics regarding the local needs and through involving the village’s intelectualls interested in cultivating the rural population such as: priests, doctors, veterinarie and judges.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: XLIII
  • Page Range: 187-206
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Romanian
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