Formation of the system of higher education in the field of physical education in Romania (60-90 years of the XX century)

Abstract

The peculiarities of the appearance of faculties of physical education at pedagogical and classical higher educational institutions of socialist Romania are considered. The reasons for the government's choice of those 12 higher educational institutions in which in the 60's of the twentieth century. faculties of physical education and sports were opened, the motives of the then authorities for active support of the newly formed training network were singled out, and demonstration at the international level of successes in training a high-level athlete was singled out as a priority. The author notes that foreigners entered the faculties of physical education at the universities of communist Romania - more than 10% (144 people) were foreigners from Cyprus, Colombia, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Gabon, Libya, Portugal, Syria, Sweden and Tunisia (University of Cluj-Napoca). The changes in higher education in the field that took place in the 70s of the XX century are analyzed: the restructuring of the faculties of physical education and sports in the structure of pedagogical faculties is determined, and later their replacement by sections; changes in the duration of training - reduction to 3 years and further introduction of the year of specialization. It is proved that in 1983 all departments were liquidated and training for children's and youth schools and sports clubs, educational institutions of all levels, physical culture and sports societies was entrusted only to the Institute of Physical Education and Sports of Bucharest.