The Dilemmas of the Reform of Romanian Education: Shock Therapy,the Infusion of Innovation,or Cultural Decommunization? |
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| Authors: | Cezar Bîrzea |
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| Abstract: | The recent presidential election in Romania has reawakened public interest in the reform of education at all levels. The author proposes a comprehensive approach to reactivate the reform process by what he calls reform through infusion. A reform programme reflecting this approach would give pride of place to centres of excellence scattered throughout the country and acting in an administrative environment of subsidiarity, decentralization, and diversity of provision. It would be the successful compromise between top‐down and bottom‐up reform strategies that in their pure forms have not worked very well. The result would be successful systemic reform moving in five main directions: an end to the state monopoly in educational provision; identification of new sources of funding; improved quality assessment; a humanist, democratic, and European approach to education; creation of a system of life‐long learning. New programmes, however, should be derived from existing ones that they will gradually supersede. |
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