ÎNVÃŢÃTOARELE DE LA ŞCOALA CONFESIONALÃ ORTODOXÃ A ARHIEPISCOPIEI SIBIULUI. ÎNTRE ACCEPTARE ŞI NECESITATE
The instituters from the confessional school of the Sibiu Archdiocese. Between acceptation and necessity

Summary/Abstract: Although during our times the women are the most numerous teachers, during the 19th century in Transylvania, this fact was far from being real. The first argument, invoked by society was the one that woman’s primordial role was within the family, where she was the one to transmit the first and most important elements of primary education. This education didn’t necessarily involve the attendance of a school. The Romanian society was mostly a rural one and it was characterized by a rather static, traditional conception regarding the family. Thus, the woman had more an interior role than an exterior one. It is obvious that, despite the educational policy of the German nation, for instance, the most appreciated for efficiency and modernity in the Transylvanian space, the schools for girls in general and then those pedagogical for girls, appeared later. The first school was opened in Blaj in 1865 and it was wellknown, then the civil school for girls of the Association ,,Astra” in Sibiu, was founded in 1883. As it was natural, the most female teachers were from families of teachers and priests mostly due to financial problems. Their mere ambition to leave the life in the village was seen and interpreted as a manifestation of feminism. Most of the places for female teachers were in wealthy areas and most of the female teachers started their work as instructors for craft works, which was considered an honourable work and of great importance for preserving the popular authentic motifs of the popular costume. After the outbreak of the First World War, due to the mobilization of many teachers from confessional schools, the only solution was to allow girls to follow the courses of the pedagogical section within the Theological-Pedagogical Institute in Sibiu. Nevertheless, it all ended up in several discussions among the archdiocesan synods during the years 1916-1917 and a final decision was postponed until the war ended. But the integration of the Romanian school in the Dualist State after 1918 brought in the desirable changes.

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