POVESTEA-VIEŢII CA MIJLOC DE (RE)CONSTRUCŢIE A „SINELUI”
Life-story as a method for reconstruction the Self

Summary/Abstract: Every life-story includes a history of childhood, fascinated for the listener. Anytime when we are confronted with the life-story of a person, we are at the point to interogate ourselves. So, the first step to understand ourselves and the Other is to know more about others’ childhood. The goal of the research was studying the patterns of education in the families of Banat, during three generations. The first one includes subjects born during interwar, the second belongs to 50’s and the third to 70’s and 80’s. Thus, it has to be mentioned the eclecticism of the groups. Three conclusions have to be drawn from the research: for the first generation, an important pattern is the intercultural education; the children were encouraged to learn foreign languages. Interviews with the second generation put to light a „double” strategy in education: for instance, within the family they listen forbidden radio broadcasts (as „Europa Liberă”), but in the same time, children were forced to hide this activity and to deny it. As for the third generation, it is evident that grandparents had the most important part in educating children, being in most of the cases a kind of substitute for the parents. These are only few examples regarding models of educating children in the families of Banat.

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