The revised versions of the programs for the Romanian language and literature, class IX, were published on Tuesday on the website of the Ministry of Education, the list of recommended Romanian authors being expanded.
The Ministry of Education and Research informed, on Tuesday, that the revised versions of the programs for the Romanian language and literature, class IX, were published, following the integration by the members of the working groups for this discipline of the observations and proposals received at the National Center for Curriculum and Evaluation, within the MEC.
“For the field of literature content, the main changes – in a synthesis of the coordinators of the working group – compared to the version under public debate aim at: Clarifying the ways in which the transition from gymnasium to high school is achieved, by detailing the first sequence of content – organized thematically and now titled Reflections on literature, in continuation of the general theme from grade VIII, Reflections on the surrounding world – and by including some milestones comprehension and interpretation to ensure continuity (but also progress) between the study of literature in middle school and high school, which will be approached through contextualization and dynamics”the representatives of the Ministry of Education sent.
According to the cited source, methodological suggestions were added to allow, for example, the comparison of characteristics of two different literary eras, the recognition of changes in themes, the tracing of relevant biographical trajectories from the perspective of civic responsibility, etc.
Also, the list of recommended Romanian authors was expanded by including some authors who had a role in the initiation of some journalistic genres (the case of Maria Rosetti, who introduced the dramatic chronicle into the journalistic space of the 19th century) or in the establishment of some incipient forms of social criticism (Sofia Nădejde, pioneer of Romanian feminism).
Also, the list of foreign authors recommended for contextualization contains the names of established authors from the Western world (from Madame de Staël to George Eliot), and among the proposals for the final school project (“People of their time”) there are several female personalities relevant for their literary and civic activity (for example, Elena Ghica – Dora d’Istria or Ecaterina Conachi).
At the same time, elements of media education were included in the examples of learning activities and in the methodological suggestions.
Other changes refer to the diversification of examples of learning activities that allow students to use the content generated by Artificial Intelligence in a responsible and ethical manner, but also “the inclusion in the presentation note of some brief definitions that clarify for the teachers the meanings in which the notions around which the curriculum is built are used: literature, understood as a multi-layered system (approached as a representation of reality, as an institution, as a historical course, as a creative space, as a tableau of genres) and the context, understood as a set of sociocultural conditions that facilitate the construction of representations of the era, as well as the establishment of connections with representations familiar to students of today”.
The representatives of the Ministry of Education stated that during the entire period reserved for the transparency process regarding the proposals for school programs intended for high school education, as well as during the week of December 15-22, the members of the working group for the discipline Romanian Language and Literature met – in plenary and in subgroups – and analyzed the observations and improvement proposals sent to the National Center for Curriculum and Evaluation.
“We hope that this program will fulfill its double role: first, to familiarize the students with literature and the Romanian language seen as living phenomena, in a continuous dynamic; then, to guide the teachers in their activity in the classroom, offering them methodological suggestions and examples of learning activities to help them build their own didactic strategies, appropriate to the profile and level of the class”said the coordinators of the working group.
The authors’ recommendations for the school curriculum for Romanian language and literature, 9th grade, common core, are the following: Grigore Ureche, Miron Costin, Ion Neculce, Radu Popescu, Ioan Dinicu Golescu, I. Codru-Drăguşanu, Gheorghe Asachi, Ion Heliade-Rădulescu, Maria Rosetti (Mary Grant), Dimitrie Bolintineanu, Grigore Alexandrescu, Nicolae Filimon, Radu Ionescu, Vasile Alecsandri, Costache Negruzzi, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Ion Ghica, Sofia Nădejde, Ion Creangă, Ioan Slavici, IL Caragiale, Titu Maiorescu, Niccolò Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Molière, Madame de Staël, Alphonse de Lamartine, Stendhal, Balzac, Mary Shelley, George Eliot.
The MEC representatives mentioned that representative works of some authors from the list will be chosen to be studied in class (entirely or through text fragments).
Also, at the end of the school year, systematization and summative evaluation activities are recommended, during which students will develop projects with the theme “People of their time”: the presentation of relevant personalities for different eras, insisting on the biographical events that influenced the development of Romanian culture and Romanian society. Students will choose a personality from the eras studied, for example: Nicolae Milescu, Dimitrie Cantemir, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Ion Heliade-Rădulescu, Nicolae Bălcescu, Elena Ghica (Dora D’Istria), CA Rosetti, Maria Rosetti (Mary Grant), Ecaterina Conachi, Vasile Alecsandri, Ion Creangă, Ioan Slavici, IL Caragiale, Queen Elizabeth of Romania (Carmen Sylva), Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Iulia Hasdeu, etc.
The students will be guided by the teacher to refer to sources (historical, literary, etc.) in documentation, on various supports (volumes of criticism and literary history, articles available online, images, video clips, etc.), which they will critically integrate into their projects. During these activities, the students will respect the ethics of writing and will use citation techniques according to the rules in force.
