Education (Interview)
Education (Interview)

Summary/Abstract: I talked to a number of randomly-chosen teachers who were acquaintances of friends of mine. They are generally young people who entered the system after 1990, and some even graduated from faculty after the Revolution. I asked them for an honest opinion regarding the wins and losses that the Romanian education has experienced after 1990, and I also asked about the manner in which they were affected by the frequent changes in the quality of education services. My other questions regarded the existence of a crisis situation in the domain of education, the changes undergone by the student-teacher-parent relationships after the Revolution, and by the relationship all three have developed with the school as an institution; they also referred to the social status of teachers, to the way in which they are viewed and assessed by parents, students and society, to the differences between past and current generations of students, to the specific difficulties with which teachers have to cope and about the way they solve these problems. Their personal ten-year experience has allowed them to form some clear opinions and these opinions have a lot in common. I have chosen only one speaking voice because the discourse is actually a synthesis of virtually all the problems met by those who struggle to apply an education system whose effects will only become visible in time.

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