The History of Higher Education in Albania University of Tirana (1957-1960)

Abstract

Education in specific periods of social development has been treated as a priority no doubts, educational-learning activity has been one of the not substitutable elements of communication between people and progress of every civilization. It serves to the nation and every development to this field is welcomed. With termination of Second World War Albania would be faced with many difficulties, as a result of damages also of poor educational inheritance. The solution to the problems would require the active involvement of the state but also of the wide civilization of that time. a powerful influence would exercise economic, political, and social factors where no doubt the most active one remained the politic one. Communist leadership would apply totalitarian socialist system undertaking for more than five decades radical changes, with consequences in the educational development in general and the high one in special. The first decades would be defining of lying of foundations and gradually for the formation as a school category oriented toward Leninism -Marxism ideology. The end of the 50s that conformed with the opening of the first Albanian University would take a special place in this process. Within the limits of an article not pretending for exhaustive treatment, we will have a tendency toward a new approach about some of the most specific aspects of higher education performance in this period.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s2p663