Course PIPP1201 · Year I · Summer 2026-2027

HISTORY OF PEDAGOGY (History of ideas - educational paradigms)

Compulsory course in Pedagogy of primary and preschool education, taught by Dorin Corneliu Opriș.

Overview

Lecturer
Dorin Corneliu Opriș
Seminar tutor
Dorin Corneliu Opriș
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Education Sciences
Field of study
Pedagogy of primary and preschool education
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification.
Entry requirements
Introduction to the history of pedagogy - Introduction to general pedagogy.

Aims

Knowledge of ideas and theories of the most represented Romanian and foreign teachers

Initiation into the specific features of the main pedagogical currents

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Course contents

1. Education and pedagogical thinking in Antiquity 2. Education and pedagogical thinking in Renaissance 3. School and pedagogical thinking in the 19th century in Western Europe and Eastern Europe 4. Pedagogical currents and theories at the end of 19th century and at the beginning of 20th century 5. School and pedagogy between the two world wars 6. The social approach of education 7. New education current 8. Active School 9. Philosophical pedagogy 10. Curriculum - concept and course 11. Educational concepts in Romania

Learning outcomes

comprehensive assimilation of the central ideas of universal pedagogy; ability to interpret different pedagogical concepts and theories

Assessment

Written paper – interpretative essay – 60%; continuous assessment – 30%; participation / score and office – 10%.

Recommended reading

Istoria ideilor/paradigmelor educaţionale
Opriş, Dorin
Universitatea „1 Decembrie 1918”, Alba Iulia, 2019 · 110
In History of Ideas, Constructivist Pedagogy Stems from German Idealism, http://electroneubio.secyt.gov.ar/Stefan_Schweizer_Constructivist_pedagogy_stems_from_German_Idealism.pdf
Schweizer, Stefan
Electroneurobiología vol. 15 (4), Stuttgart, 2007 · 35
Şcoala şi doctrinele pedagogice în sec. XX
Stanciu, I.Gh.
E.D.P., Bucuresti, 1995 · 168
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