Activitatea didactică a învățătorilor Aurel și Eleonora Panțuru conform „Registrului de inspecții al Școalei primare de stat din comuna Batiz” (1936-1949)
The Teaching Activity of Primary School Teachers Aurel and Eleonora Panțuru Acording to “The Batiz Commune State Primary School Inspection Register” (1936-1949)

Summary/Abstract: After the year 1918, authorities in Transylvania reorganised the education system. In order to achieve the objectives it had set, the government, through the State Primary Education Law of July 26, 1924, made it possible for schools to also be built in the countryside, so that the educational process could take place in proper conditions. Schools also received agricultural land plots. Some were placed next to the school building and were used as orchards and vegetable gardens. A bigger plot, of at least 4 hectares, was located outside the village and was allotted for the purpose of practical activities with the students and the teacher's use. Impromptu inspections took place in order to check the teachers' activities. The inspections successively examined teacher and student class attendance, compared to the number of students enrolled at the beginning of each school year, as well as the students' hygiene, the classroom cleanliness, the conditions in which the classes were held, the way in which information was taught to and assimilated by the students; they checked accounting books, registers, records, the teaching material used, while also focusing on the application of the knowledge acquired in practice and in real life. At the end of each inspection, teachers received a grade.These realities did not spare the primary school in Batiz, where findings were recorded in the commune's State Primary School Inspection Register, with detailed descriptions, during the period between February 5, 1936, and April 12, 1949. As this is a unique document, I have maintained (without being subjective) the original format of the text while writing the current study, keeping both contemporaneity and posterity in mind. Thus, readers will be able to experience part of the atmosphere in which a young generation developed during inter- and post-war Romania. Furthermore, the text can serve as a source of information for those interested in conducting deeper research of past developments in the field.

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