Public Education in Romania and Moldova, 19-20th Centuries: Modernization, Political Mobilization, and Nation-Building. An Introduction

Abstract

Since the second half of the 19th century, Romania has asserted itself, along with other European states, as a “modern mobilizational state”1 which aimed to profoundly transform its population and the mass of its citizens through extensive mobilizing and social engineering projects. Public education has played a central role in this ambitious process of social transformation, being an essential tool of state formation and nation-building

Keywords

• public education
• romania
• moldova
• nationa-building