Elements of Continuous and Adult Education in the Romanian Literature and Institutions of the 15th-17th Centuries
Elements of Continuous and Adult Education in the Romanian Literature and Institutions of the 15th-17th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to analyzing the Romanian literature and institutions in the 15th 17th centuries from the viewpoint of continuous education and the particular aspects of adult education. The selection of this period was determined by the relevance of cultural and educational models stated nowadays to support the idea of continuous education. We consider this stage of the Romanian cultural history as a reference point in understanding the historical and cultural premises of continuous education and of the epistemological status of adult teaching in the current Romanian environment. With regard to the methodology, this study proposes a historical research of the Romanian documents and institutions of the 15th-17th centuries, and provides a data interpretation and reorganization from the perspective of the dominant cultural-educational model. Starting from this criterion, we propose the analysis of two distinct stages of this period: the 15th-16th centuries whose major pattern is the affiliation to the Eastern cultural model characterized by the Slavonic language, and the 17th century dominated by the option for the western humanist culture to develop the Romanian culture and education.

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