Primary and pre-school education on the Babeș-Bolyai University

Abstract

The following paper presents the findings of a multiphase research that has been conducted among the students at the Kindergarten Teacher Training and Primary School Teacher Training Departments of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the Babeș-Bolyai University. With the aim of providing the right frame for a correct interpretation of the findings, the first part of the paper focuses on the legal background that has been regulating the state tertiary education in Hungarian for kindergarten and primary school teachers over the last sixteen years, as well as the effects on the curriculum of the changes that have occurred. In our survey we tried to find out the opinion of the students in their final year about the quality of the educational process, as well as the level of preparation they achieve for a career in teaching.