Învăţământul preuniversitar în limba Maghiară din România, în perioada 1948-1989.
Hungarian Language School Education in Romania between 1949–1989.

Summary/Abstract: With the last historical reconstitution published in 1997, and a quasi-confirmation of it, in 2006, by the presidential condemnation of the communist regime, the research of Hungarian minority education in Romania, during the communist era, seemed to be arrived at a dead point. However, due to the various divergent historiographical approaches and to the political use of them, the topic tends to be a never-ending story of the local multiculturalism issue. After the downfall of the communist regime, mother-tongue-based education became a central element of the political struggle for minority rights. Due to a serious lack of data, most of descriptions were based on the effects of the educational regulations and political events on minority education. In this context, the educational evidence was interpreted mostly in a dialectical key: majority minority, Romanian-Hungarian, official-samizdat, censored-uncensored, counted-estimated. This ended in divergent opinions reflected in the field literature, social policy debates and in the common-sense fallacy of majority-minority representation. Collecting as much structural data as possible and avoiding the pitfalls of existing data sources, our study redraws the trend line of Hungarian language school education in Romania between 1948-1989 and seeks to depict its meaning trough the light of past educational policies, political events, the national trend line, and the demographical evolutions.

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