Literature Written by Women in the Romanian Curriculum

Abstract

This paper dwells on the rather outdated Romanian curriculum in the study of Romanian language and literature and its purpose is to raise awareness of the names of salient female writers that are missing from the curriculum. We consider that feminism is a dual process which operates both on a social and educational level of society. The structure of society is reflecting on the structure of education where sexism is currently being perpetuated through the absence of female writers in the literary canon. Our research is didactic because we want to improve the curriculum and it is also a longitudinal research, since we propose to highlight the theoretical framework of the research during a year. The fields of research are education, philology and sociology. The methods chosen are: the survey method, the psychopedagogical experimental method, the sociometric methods, as well as the examination of curriculum documents and of other school documents.