Development of Romanian university education in European integration process

- Маріуц, Ілона Олександрівна (2015) Development of Romanian university education in European integration process In: Researching Histories of Educational Spaces, Discourses and Sources. Histories of Education Summer School 2015 Luxembourg, 18-20 June, 18-20 June, м. Люксембург, Люксембург.

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Abstract

The dissertation project presents a holistic analysis of university education development in Romania in European integration process, historical and socioeconomical background of university education in Romania was defined and new approaches and mechanisms for quality assurance and transparency of governance are allocated during the formation and transformation of higher education in general and the university in particulary analyzes. The purpose of the thesis is to highlight the trends and features of university education development in Romania from 1989 till 2011. For the analysis of the origins of university education establishment Romania chronological limits were extended to 1634 – the establishment of the first universities. Socialy-economic, political and historical prerequisites are investigated. Close attention is paid to the key periods of university education, trends and features in their development. The main criteria that helped to distinguish them are socialy-economic and political factors that gradually resulted in improvements for the whole system of education and its performance. Six periods of university education development are studied: I (1634 – 1864) characterized period of development of higher education in Romanian principalities; II (1864 – 1918) period of reforming the education system in Romania in general and in particular higher education; III (1918–1948) is defined as the period of the establishment of the national higher education; IV (1948–1989) period of the socialist model of higher education in Romania, V (1989 – 1999) identified as a period of transition from an authoritarian socialist-ideological to a democratic market-oriented European higher education; VI (1999 – 2011) the period of European integration reforms. The main trends in university education in Romania were defined and justified: changing the legal framework of higher education, the integration of higher education in science and industry, university autonomy, multiculturalism policy of higher education, the development of human resources of higher education. Conditions that ensure the effective implementation of the Bologna process towards European integration were analyzed. These conditions include legislative and legal support in education, improvement funding mechanisms and institutional reforms and strategic universities management. The possibilities and prospects for effective use of positive experience of theory and practice of Romanian university education in reforming of Ukrainian university education were defined.

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