PEDAGOGIA PLANULUI JENA ÎN ROMÂNIA
JENA PLAN PEDAGOGY IN ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: The Jena Plan is a pedagogical model developed by the German professor Peter Petersen at the University of Jena in Germany. The model was known by some Romanian teachers already in the period between the two World Wars, and after 1990 it was popularized again, serving as a source of innovation and inspiration during the reformation and democratization of the education system in Romania. The Jena Plan appears at the level of preschool education in four counties and it is one of the six educational alternatives recognized and approved by the Ministry of Education after 1990. This article makes a retrospective of the development of the Jena Plan in Romania, in the context of the development of the education system in the last three and a half decades. The program dedicated to the continuous training of teachers who choose to follow the principles of this educational alternative is briefly presented, as well as the position of some preschool teachers who have experience in applying the Jena Plan in kindergartens. Finally, a possible future evolution in Romania of this alternative model is outlined. The article is a translation and adaptation of the article “Jenaplan-Pädagogik in Rumänien” (Cuciureanu & Pfützner, 2024), which recently appeared in “Pädagogische Rundschau”.

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