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EDUCATIONAL OCCURRENCES OF PAIDEIA CLUBS IN INTERGENERATIONAL CULTURE
EDUCATIONAL OCCURRENCES OF PAIDEIA CLUBS IN INTERGENERATIONAL CULTURE

Author(s): Octavia Costea
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: transnational project; intergenerational culture; Paideia club; participation; reification; impacts; learning community; social dimension of Bologna process

Summary/Abstract: Our paper formalises data of the European project Connecting Generations, Grundtvig programme, European Commission, in which are involving partners from Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Greece, Turkey, Hungary, England and Romania. The starting hypothesis and indicators of the project are ones of construction of five Paideia clubs for Students Forum from the Faculty of Education, Christian University Dimitrie Cantemir. In the course of this project are four basic concepts: Paideia club, intergenerational learning chain, preparing children for life, cultural, spiritual and economic values. The five Paideia clubs of the Students Forum are exploring new values of the European concept of Paideia, signifying, actually, lifelong learning and learning forms of Agora whose ethical, spiritual and cultural values are transferred from generation to generation as a continuity form of human memory. Thus, Paideia clubs become initiative, learning and creative spaces - at the same time, it involves synergy, ethos, nobility and freedom.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 89-97
  • Page Count: 9
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