Spatial dimensions of illiteracy in Romania, 1992-2011.

ABSTRACT: Starting with the chapter approaching the educational characteristics of the three census databases carried out in post-communist Romania (1992, 2002, and 2011), broken down at the local administrative unit level, the article aims to analyze from a geographical perspective the phenomenon of illiteracy. In the collective mindset, this notion is primarily associated with poverty, lack of accessibility to education, and/or lack of interest in school. During the three decades covered by this study, influenced by the change of the communist political regime and the economic instability, the complexity of the spatial dimensions of illiteracy is defined by particular demographic, confessional, and ethnic connections which have experienced various dynamics, but following the general tendency of th

SUBMITTER: Buza V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9618730 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature