Education Issues in a Totalitarian State (Case of Albania)

Autor: Anila Mullahi, Jostina Dhimitri
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 174:4103-4107
ISSN: 1877-0428
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.1161
Popis: The political changes that happened in Albania after the World War II were followed by changes in every direction. One of the areas which had substantial changes was the field of education. Education underwent a complete new organization getting completely alienated. In continuity of the private property ceased to exist, public education became fully subsidized and fully controlled by the state. Education Reform Law decided that Marxist-Leninist was the only obligated principle for all school texts. The Communist Party tried to educate children with hate for bourgeois culture traditions that come from foreign country. The school lost her freedom and her functions. She became a politic supplement. School was considered an institution that does not accept any kind of diversity. In the center of teaching is not the student, on the contrary, he was in a complete limited position and predetermined. At school, was not taken into consideration the variability of students in origin, psychological, intellect, heritage, environment and context, but they are looked upon like a group in military uniform. In many didactic manuals it is said that it does not exist only one way to teach others. In the education that was developed in the communist regime was not accepted the multi-methodology, but it was talked only of a literary method, rigid and obligated for all. Mono-methodology consisted of a teaching that was centered on the teacher who decides all the time for everything without ever getting into consideration the thoughts or the opinions of the students. The classes had total lack of interaction between students and teachers. This ideological platform impacted badly the school level, gaps in taking scientific knowledge and preparing independent students, capable to take independent decision.
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