Chapter 12: Curriculum Problems and Professional Conscience in a Democratic Society

After leaving my safe harbors and embarking on the next step of my educational development, I accepted the challenge of becoming involved in developing my own humanistic window through curriculum theory. The starting points for this decision were my commitments to life-long learning, the willingness to discover new things, and my hope of gaining a better understanding of my role as a female educator in a post-Soviet country. I have also been influenced alternately by the mind-numbing and interest-killing routine and corruptible mechanisms in the Moldovan school system. My intellectual journey to self-knowing brought me to Miami University as a graduate student, and as an Edward Muskie scholar, part of the last cohort of this illustrious and generous scholarship program.