VALUES WITHIN THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION OF EDUCATION - A CASE STUDY ON THE FOREIGN LANGUAGES LEARNING IN ROMANIA
VALUES WITHIN THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION OF EDUCATION - A CASE STUDY ON THE FOREIGN LANGUAGES LEARNING IN ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims at presenting the actual situation as concern the values the students are taught about during their university and pre university courses on one hand, the necessity of the labour market and the European new paradigms in the educational policies on the other hand. From all the values taken into consideration, we focus mainly on the familiarization of the European inhabitants with the usage of the foreign languages. At first, we referred to the values within the European dimension of education, as they were established by the European Commission for every state. Here we made special reference to the plan of the educational contents, as it has to contain elements of proximity and coincidence. Secondly, we talked about the new paradigms met with the new political and social situation. Here we stress the importance not only of knowledge, but also of competences and values people have to achieve. In order to fulfil this task, the usage of the TIC and of the educational resources opened for every type of educational contexts should be intensified. Here we also mentioned the series of activities which help learning of the common language for a European citizenship and the defining of the new educations, adapted to the dimension of education, the European Commission and the Council of Europe propose. In order to get real information, we used the following methods: questionnaires (were disseminated to different categories of respondents: students, employed, unemployed, discriminated categories and so on) and observations. The activities supposed data collecting, processing, analyzing and interpretation. In the end we draw the conclusions.

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