The Compulsory Education in Romania inside the Context of the European dimension of education
The Compulsory Education in Romania inside the Context of the European dimension of education

Summary/Abstract: A major factor in creating a modern European society in its economic and social development is the European cooperation in education and the development of the European dimension of education and training. The European dimension, as the basic component of education policy represents a finality which aims at overcoming the national particular elements specific to the European education systems, respecting diversity, emphasizing pluralism and interculturalism. Making the European dimension at the level of education and training involves linking two factors: increased cultural identity of each nation and affirmation of cultural diversity, which generates tolerance, interculturalism and respect towards each other. Some of the recommendations from the documents of educational politics applied to the compulsory education in Romania are: considering the duration and the activities in the compulsory education as a whole, operating inside the formal structure with the curriculum cycles defined in the documents of the National Curriculum, improving the coherence of the curriculum according to the curriculum cycles, their succession, education for all disregarding the social origin and the intellectual capacity, the elimination of the school abandonment with efficient solutions adapted to each situations, recovery for those in abandoning situations and ensuring efficient alternatives for re-education/ educational recovery. The curriculum is the fundamental instrument for achieving the goals of the compulsory education in Romania. The curriculum, created in approach to the new requirements of the basic education and to the European tendencies, contributes to the development of the students’ personality according to the needs of a society based on knowledge. It also contributes to gaining new basic competences required by society and economy and to the formation of students for life -long education.

• Details
• Contents