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Catholic Teacher Education in Romania

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Catholic education in Romania began almost 1000 years ago as part of the evangelizing mission of the Church. The peak of the Romanian Catholic education was initially represented by the monastic orders of the Franciscan and Dominican Friars and later on by religious congregations from Western Europe. During modern and contemporary times, Catholic education at all levels, from kindergartens to universities, exists both in private confessional forms and in public institutionalized forms financially supported by the state. Both forms of education in the Catholic Church are functioning according to the Romanian law of education and issue graduation diplomas and certificates recognized at national and European level.

From Cathedral Schools to Urban and Rural Schools

The first Catholic school on the Romanian territory, as it is today, was “St. George’s Capitular School” in Cenad, founded in 1030 by St. Gerard, Bishop of Cenad [Marton 2020]. The first “teacher” of the school was called...

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  1. University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Wilhelm Dancă

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  1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Michael A. Peters

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  1. University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, WA, Australia

    Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš

  2. University of Latvia, Rīga, Latvia

    Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš

  3. School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš

  4. Catholic Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš

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Dancă, W. (2020). Catholic Teacher Education in Romania. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_146-1

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