Multimedia in Primary and Secondary School Curricula in Romania

Multimedia is present in our everyday life, thus its management is considered as a necessity by the specialists. The relation of multimedia with education is very complex: we speak about education with multimedia and multimedia education. In this paper we propose to characterize partially the above mentioned relations, analyzing the openness of primary and secondary school curricula for use of multimedia in the learning process. This openness is the first step toward multimedia education. In our investigation were analyzed 105 primary school programs and 157 secondary school programs for 39 disciplines. The obtained results underline the lack of interest of policy makers to promote multimedia in education. In the paper there are given some suggestions for directions of use of media in school practice.