Studies and Current Trends in Science of Education - ICSED 2016
Studies and Current Trends in Science of Education - ICSED 2016
Contributor(s): Otilia Clipa (Editor), Constantin Florin Domunco (Editor)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Summary/Abstract: Studies and Current Trends in Science of Education
Proceedings of the 14th Edition of the International Conference on Sciences of Education. Learning for Life – ICSED 2016, 12-13 May 2016, Suceava (Romania) & Chernivtsi (Ukraine)
Series: LUMEN PROCEEDINGS. Scientific Conference Proceedings
- E-ISBN-13: 978-973-166-475-0
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-973-166-435-4
- Page Count: 324
- Publication Year: 2016
- Language: English, Romanian
Aspects regarding teaching staff’s motivation and satisfaction – from theory to practice
Aspects regarding teaching staff’s motivation and satisfaction – from theory to practice
(Aspects regarding teaching staff’s motivation and satisfaction – from theory to practice)
- Author(s):Ramona-Cristina Balanescu
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:11-20
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Motivation; satisfaction; inducement; performance; teaching corps
- Summary/Abstract:The teacher status in contemporary society should grant prestige. We need devoted and competent teaching staff with a calling and endowed with special personal and professional qualities. The teaching corps is an employee category whose performance is related to motivational factors.This article seeks to perform not only a theoretical analysis of some aspects regarding the teaching staff’s motivation and performance management, but to especially factually identify motivational factors determining the teaching corps’ satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Highlighting these aspects resulting from the performed research can help taking measures to increase the satisfaction and professional performance level of the teaching corps in the Romanian educational system, and thus, the pupils’ academic performance and success.
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Affective Consquences of Emotion Regulation
Affective Consquences of Emotion Regulation
(Affective Consquences of Emotion Regulation)
- Author(s):Liliana Bujor
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:21-32
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Emotion regulation; cognitive reappraisal; expressive suppression; wellbeing
- Summary/Abstract:In terms of emotion regulation, at this moment, is undoubtedly that, although emotions significantly affect our lives in many dimensions (cognitive, social, behavioral), the human being is not under the direct and immediate influence of emotional impulse. The research of emotion regulation, from both determinants and consequences perspective, becomes a realistic objective research and adapted at needs of contemporany human being. This paper, focused only on the affective consequnces of emotion regulation, discovers, in the theoretical framework of the process model of emotion regulation (Gross, 1998a, 1998b, 2002) how the emotion regulation strategies (expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal) become manifest at wellbeing level. Investigated data reveals the positive impact of cognitive reappraisal (antecedent-focused) on emotional response, felt in expressive and experiential plan. For expressive suppression (response-focused strategie), investigated date prove to be contradictory; Although, the most studies support the negative impact of expressive suppression on wellbeing, there are scientific evidences that places the effects of suppression in the positive consequences category.
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Universality and Variability in Infant Attachment
Universality and Variability in Infant Attachment
(Universality and Variability in Infant Attachment)
- Author(s):Marius Marici
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:33-39
- No. of Pages:7
- Keywords:Infant attachment; cultural variations; universality; Strange Situation Protocol
- Summary/Abstract:The Attachment Theory is one of the most influential theories in child development psychology, at its conceptual core being the idea that early parent-child relationship has the potential of influencing and shaping the whole human experience. The purpose of the present research is to highlighten some of the universal and local features of the attachment paradigm. The theoretical inquiry indicates that the assessment of infant attachment, using the Strange Situation Protocol, is subject to cultural differences. Further scientific investigations should intensity the research on variability in the attachment assessment, as there are large policy and practical implications.
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The Need of Educational Counselling in the Early Childhood Education to Optimize the School Adaptation Process
The Need of Educational Counselling in the Early Childhood Education to Optimize the School Adaptation Process
(The Need of Educational Counselling in the Early Childhood Education to Optimize the School Adaptation Process)
- Author(s):Gianina-Ana Massari, Alina-Elena Vasilescu
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:41-55
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:Counselling; early childhood; education; school adaptation
- Summary/Abstract:Counselling activities involve a formative educational approach oriented towards the most out of the skills and abilities to adapt through evolutionary change. The goals of the educational counselling are differentiated by problems and age of the pupils. The fundamental question of our research is focused on the presence need of the school counselor in the area of early childhood education. This study represents a qualitative analysis of responses, revelead from focus groups, that has been targeted the perception of kindergarten and primary school teachers on the need of educational counselling for school adaptation process. The research objectives were aimed at identifying categories of problems facing teachers in kindergarten and primary school to enhance the school adaptation by implementing strategies of school counselling and making an inventory of the problems to train the children for school adaptation during the kindergarten and preparatory class process. Our group of subjects was represented by 52 teachers from Iasi, Neamt, Vaslui and Botosani. From the perspective of the inventory problems that require the intervention of a school counselor, at the end of this study we have structured several categories of problems that need the intervention through counselling and we have recommended several counseling strategies to optimize the school adaptation process.
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Motivation in Students’ Professional Options
Motivation in Students’ Professional Options
(Motivation in Students’ Professional Options)
- Author(s):Mihaela PĂIŞI LĂZĂRESCU
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:57-64
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:Reasons; professional options; system of values
- Summary/Abstract:The present paper is based on the theoretical assumption according to which motivation is the factor that triggers, energizes and directs any individual in his activity. The particular complexity of the concept results from the fact that man does not act under the influence of a single reason but under the influence of a motivational constellation where as a rule, hierarchies are settled and internal conflicts are overcame.Discerning between the learning motivation and the professional motivation we have considered that the motives develop and organize according to the information they have about the profession they prepare for.We elaborated a scale of dominants and categories of motivational factors based on a questionnaire which function differently, while offering information about the intensity and the value of professional options.
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The Social Representation of Psychologist among High-school and University Students
The Social Representation of Psychologist among
High-school and University Students
(The Social Representation of Psychologist among
High-school and University Students)
- Author(s):Bogdan Popoveniuc
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:65-78
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:Social Representation; Psychologist; Psychology; Free Associations
- Summary/Abstract:This exploratory study sought to identify (the central elements of) the social representation of Psychologist for young people, in a comparative study on two groups of subjects: high-school and university students. The research was conducted using the technique of free association based on a inductor word. Afterwards the subjects was instructed to rank the words according to their given importance. It was expected that the image of the Psychologist and Psychology to be influenced by the importance given to this area, the type, frequency and the weight of the encounters with the professional from this domain, but also by subjective characteristics of the individuals, e.g. social status, values and general rules that subjects adhere. The comparative analysis of the results, dimensions that need a thorough research and the limitations of this study are also discussed.
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Metacognitive and Affective Strategies Structures for Higher Education
Metacognitive and Affective Strategies Structures for Higher Education
(Metacognitive and Affective Strategies Structures for Higher Education)
- Author(s):Elena Răilean
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:79-86
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:Strategy; cognitive strategy; affective strategy; metacognitive strategy; digital textbook
- Summary/Abstract:Learning to learn competence is one of the eight competencies included in European Framework of live-long competence. The issues related to learning to learn refer to the integrity of the competence structure. The research question is: What is the structure of the (meta)cognitive and affective strategies in university education? The article presents a summary of cognitive, affective and metacognitive strategies, which may be used in university education. The research design includes literature review of main concepts and self-reflection about the applicability of these concepts. The expected outcomes are understanding cognitive, affective and metacognitive strategies as a holistic totality for university education.
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Emotional and Social Learning – Optimization and Training Strategies
Emotional and Social Learning – Optimization and Training Strategies
(Emotional and Social Learning – Optimization and Training Strategies)
- Author(s):Maria Magdalena Stan
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:87-96
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Social and emotional learning; learning strategies; emotional competences; social competences; school adaption
- Summary/Abstract:The holistic approach of this school maturity concept involves the integration of child development domains – physical, motor, social and emotional in a unitary model. Certainly, cognitive maturity plays a central role in academic performance, but emotional and social factors must not be neglected as they can potentiate and empower the child’s effort to transit successfully and to obtain school success. The intervention by means of development, optimization and training programs for social and emotional competences represents a modality to improve and optimize the pupils’ learning process and school performance implicitly but also a modality to increase their social and academic integration. The present study proposes to demonstrate the efficiency of certain optimization and training techniques for social and emotional competences at early ages, mainly at the beginning of school years.
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Equity and Inclusion inside the School Environment. Perceptions of Students and Teachers from the County of Suceava
Equity and Inclusion inside the School Environment. Perceptions of Students and Teachers from the County of Suceava
(Equity and Inclusion inside the School Environment. Perceptions of Students and Teachers from the County of Suceava)
- Author(s):Elena Bujorean
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:99-107
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:Equity; inclusion; school climate
- Summary/Abstract:The perceptions of students and teachers on the quality of the student-teacher interaction are important aspects of the school climate. For a student, the school climate is an element of school culture which affects the feeling of security and acceptance and is, consequently, a determining factor of the ability to concentrate on the task of learning. The present study offers and investigation of the perception of educational actors on the equitable character of the school system and on the quality of the educational environment, referring to the exigencies of social and educational inclusion. The results obtained through an opinion survey of a lot of 652 pupils and 440 teachers from Suceava county have shown us that students perceive more than teachers the equitable character of the school system and that teachers perceive more favorably than the students the inclusive character of the educational environment.
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Aesthetic Education - Reassessment of the Aims and Principles of Achievement
Aesthetic Education - Reassessment of the Aims and Principles of Achievement
(Aesthetic Education - Reassessment of the Aims and Principles of Achievement)
- Author(s):Constantin Cucoş
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:109-119
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Human help; medieval caritas; social assistance; philanthropy
- Summary/Abstract:The main purpose of the present research will be a synthetic presentation of the history of human help in the Polish lands during the period from the X-th to the XX-th century, its evolution from ad hoc and appreciative, charitable and philanthropic support to the formation of the system of benefits and professional services. The paper also point out on the most important connection between the development of subsidiarity in other countries and their impact on the development of such activity in Polish lands. In the process of historical development the social organizations have undergone a huge evolution from the provision of temporary and discretionary philanthropic support for the implementation of statutory benefits and services in the post-war state.
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Highlights for the Construction of a Didactic Discourse Focused on the Learning Subject in "Kung Fu Panda" Animation
Highlights for the Construction of a Didactic Discourse Focused on the Learning Subject in "Kung Fu Panda" Animation
(Highlights for the Construction of a Didactic Discourse Focused on the Learning Subject in "Kung Fu Panda" Animation)
- Author(s):Constantin Florin Domunco
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:121-130
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Didactic discourse; learning subject; communicational paradigm
- Summary/Abstract:The focus on learning subject is an active strategy that requires the building of a positive and significant learning experience within a nondirective and democratic relationship. As communicational paradigm, the focus on the learning subject assumes that the individual who learns should always be the starting point for the existence and the functioning of the didactic discourse. The educator has to see the needs and the concerns of his disciple as the fulcrum which can provide, just like Archimedes who wanted to overturn the earth, the feasibility of overthrowing the old system of values. Therefore the focus on learning subject may have effects in the field of perception, construction and reconstruction of the social reality.
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Building and Developing a Teachers’ Community Based on the PROFILES Science Education Network
Building and Developing a Teachers’ Community Based on the PROFILES Science Education Network
(Building and Developing a Teachers’ Community Based on the PROFILES Science Education Network)
- Author(s):Gabriel Gorghiu, Laura Monica Gorghiu
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:131-137
- No. of Pages:7
- Keywords:Science education; Science teachers’ network; PROFILES Project
- Summary/Abstract:At present, Science teachers’ networks offer proper environments for exchanging ideas and good practices, but also for promoting knowledge. In Europe, such networks have been established in the past, but in Romania, Science teachers’ networks are relative new, just few attempts at local level being recorded. Recently, a successful network has been set up in the frame of the FP7 European Research Project “PROFILES - Professional Reflection-Oriented Focus on Inquiry-based Learning and Education through Science”. The PROFILES network has been set up during the implementation of the accredited “PROFILES - Education through Science” CPD programme, started in spring 2011 with 32 members. The paper presents the steps followed by the PROFILES team to create the nucleus of a Science Teachers network, to develop the number of network members and to maintain the connection between them after the PROFILES project end.
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(Un)learnt Educational Reforms Lessons – the Republic of Moldova Compulsory Education Hidden Costs
(Un)learnt Educational Reforms Lessons – the Republic of Moldova Compulsory Education Hidden Costs
((Un)learnt Educational Reforms Lessons – the Republic of Moldova Compulsory Education Hidden Costs)
- Author(s):Andrei Pârvan
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:139-148
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Policies; Educational Reforms; management; financing; corruption
- Summary/Abstract:This paper examines family with school-age children members, educational staff and main actors' representations on the schooling financial support, related to its public financing and management responsibilities. Data collected in the summer of 2014 during a quantitative research on the subjects specified before proves the public opinion awareness and willingness to support educational reforms. The Moldovan socio-economic context can be considered significant for a society where the Western (EU) societies' ethics and management face a strong adherence to the Slavic ethos and the Eastern model.
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The Role of Universities in Development and Consolidation of the Cultural Dimension in a Europe of Knowledge
The Role of Universities in Development and Consolidation of the Cultural Dimension in a Europe of Knowledge
(The Role of Universities in Development and Consolidation of the Cultural Dimension in a Europe of Knowledge)
- Author(s):Nadia Laura Serdenciuc
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:149-161
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:Knowledge society; educational system; internationalization; higher education; entrepreneurial university
- Summary/Abstract:Our study focuses on the effects generated by the knowledge society specificity on the functioning of the higher education institutions in contemporary context. The expansion of knowledge in the social area in accordance to a few landmarks of pragmatic validation, oriented on information usefulness, involves changes regarding the educational system. The evolution of higher education institutions also follows an adapted trajectory according to these multple changes. The mission of the university is built by turns in a humanistic and encyclopedic perspective, making room for a modern science view- based on rational investigation and experimental methods, delineating some entrepreneurial landmarks. The basic functions of higher education institutions: education, research and public engagement must be adapted to the needs and requirements of a changing society and must be developed towards internationalization, focusing the competitive and the collaborative approaches on raising efficiency and quality of the provided service.
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Axiological Dimension of Exercising Professional Roles by the Teaching Staff According to the Pedagogue George Vaideanu
Axiological Dimension of Exercising Professional Roles by the Teaching Staff According to the Pedagogue George Vaideanu
(Axiological Dimension of Exercising Professional Roles by the Teaching Staff According to the Pedagogue George Vaideanu)
- Author(s):Liliana Stan
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:163-172
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Training of trainers; professionalization; values
- Summary/Abstract:The training of trainers constitutes a challenging theoretical and applicative approach which has caused relevant reflection in all times and important cultural areas throughout the world. This study synthesises a whole range of aspects on the issue of exercising roles by the teaching staff as having been structured by the pedagogue George Vaideanu (1924-2014), a professor of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi between 1964 and 1996. This study predominantly deals with axiological dimension of exercising professional roles; it points out the presence of interest in the training of trainers in pedagogy and it emphasises references in Professor George Vaideanu’s vision on the characteristics of the axiological dimension of teaching. While stating the special importance of the spiritual and cultural values to educational act and while observing the force that education owns to model people mentalities on a planetary level, George Vaideanu considers that, in future, the whole acting range of training of trainers will more and more obviously turn into a strategic approach endowed with a decisive value for axiological and existential meaning of humanity.
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Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development on Actual Educational ICT Issues, in the Frame of the ProWeb Project
Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development on Actual Educational ICT Issues, in the Frame of the ProWeb Project
(Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development on Actual Educational ICT Issues, in the Frame of the ProWeb Project)
- Author(s):Gabriela Alina Anghel, Ana Maria Aurelia Petrescu, Gabriel Gorghiu
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:175-183
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:Continuous professional development; digital competences; ICT instruments; Mathematics and Natural Sciences; ProWeb project
- Summary/Abstract:The teachers’ continuous professional development represents an imperative condition in nowadays education of the contemporary society - the information society based on knowledge. In this context, we assist to a multiplicity of roles that must be performed by teachers, focusing on the formative component of the educational process.In this respect, looking to the future, the students need not only to acquire the knowledge, but rather the meta-cognitive skills, in order to enable and structure an own style of learning, which value the personality, the development of interdisciplinary connections and the knowledge transfer, in the context of solving problems faced mostly in their everyday life.In the presented study, we intend to investigate the views of the teachers involved as trainees in the project “ProWeb - A Network for Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development in order to Use Multimedia, Virtual Instrumentation and Web 2.0 in the Curricular Area of Mathematics and Natural Sciences” (POSDRU/157/1.3/S/141587) - developed in the frame of the Sectoral Operational Program for Human Resources Development 2007-2013 -, related to the effectiveness of the design and realization of a training approach based on using ICT.The research methodology consisted on performing of a 12 items structured interview on a sample of 60 teachers, concerning their perception and evaluation on their own digital skills and positive effects, that could be generated by the implementation of ICT instruments, in the context of Mathematics and Science lessons.The obtained results - after processing the teachers’ answers - come to confirm our expectations. Thus, we find that teachers realized the importance of their professional training, focusing on training and digital skills development, but also on recognizing that ICT is beneficial for multiple values in the educational process.
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Educational Impact upon Social Sustainable Development
Educational Impact upon Social Sustainable Development
(Educational Impact upon Social Sustainable Development)
- Author(s):Daniela Mihaela Neamţu, Daniela Burac
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:185-195
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Sustainable development; education; human assets.
- Summary/Abstract:Quality of education represents a previous condition for social sustainable development. The concept of sustainable development has changed in time, without existing an universal model of education. For sure, such a model cannot be conceived, because there are different approaches of education for each society, which vary from economic, cultural and technological points of view. Education for sustainable development brings in the same time a new motivation for the educational act, offering the opportunity to those involved, to creatively participate to identify solutions and evaluate the alternatives to create a sustainable future. Taking this into account, we can define it as transposing the abstract in reality, by putting in the centre of attention the human potential and knowledge. Knowledge means power, which denotes that, as long as a person assimilates more information, his potential and abilities will significantly grow. Education is going to assure support for young adults, in general, in this continuously changing world, global and full of challenges and uncertainties, helping them realize the complex relationships and action mode that they have to adopt. The basic concept of the society based on knowledge for a sustainable development is data, information and knowledge. Knowledge always represented a motric force of change, a powerful determinant of progress in all domains. Starting from these reasons, the present paper proposes itself to investigate the relationship between education and social sustainable development, being a pylon in the conversion of sustainable development.
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A Few Landmarks Regarding the Promotion of Cultural Diversity in Higher Education in the Context of a Sustainable Regional Development
A Few Landmarks Regarding the Promotion of Cultural Diversity in Higher Education in the Context of a Sustainable Regional Development
(A Few Landmarks Regarding the Promotion of Cultural Diversity in Higher Education in the Context of a Sustainable Regional Development)
- Author(s):Nadia Laura Serdenciuc
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:197-212
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:University; regional development; sustainable development; cultural diversity promotion; internationalization
- Summary/Abstract:The university mission, redefined in accordance with social and economic dynamics in contemporary society is a proof that educational institutions are buiding a responsible behavior, generated by their status as key- actors in the context of regional and local development. The awareness of a valuable cultural diversity capital is added to this increased institutional involvment, determining a few strategies for sustaining cultural pluralism: multiple forms of academic cooperation and international research, integration of the international dimension in the curriculum, the mobility scheme optimization, the promotion of intercultural dialogue and active citizenship. The presence of cultural diversity as reality in regional area changes, in a specific manner, the relation between education and development, in the spirit of exercising the regional character of the university mission, emphasizing on the promotion of cultural diversity as part of educational policies for a sustainable development.
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The Informative-Formative Value of the Strategies based on the Practical Action – Modeling Teaching
The Informative-Formative Value of the Strategies based on the Practical Action – Modeling Teaching
(The Informative-Formative Value of the Strategies based on the Practical Action – Modeling Teaching)
- Author(s):Sofia Loredana Tudor
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:213-221
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:Training focused on skills; activation; teaching differentiation and customization; models based on practical action; teaching modeling; teaching model
- Summary/Abstract:Curricular reform promotes the transition from classical pedagogy, based on the traditional model of information transmission, to the pedagogy based on training and personal reflection model. From the large and diverse spectrum of teaching methods, this study focuses on the role of the based- action methods in training students skills, in the training context focused on skills. The study takes into account current approaches, the differentiation and personalization of teaching approaches.The study analyzes the specifics of teaching modeling, analyzed from different perspectives: as a teaching strategy, independent teaching method or teaching process in the demonstration method, simulation and training using the computer. Study findings highlight the formative value of modeling teaching in teaching and learning didactic content, especially its role in students skills training to experiment, investigate, act, thus facilitate the development of knowledge by their own force, constructive, interactive. Modeling becomes a teaching strategy, a way to design and conduct the educational process that generates human and material resources management and the election of teaching methods and procedures that are going to be used. It underlies learning by analogy, in this approach, teaching modeling being a superior form of learning organization.
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Physical Activity during School – Strategy for Preventing Obesity
Physical Activity during School – Strategy for Preventing Obesity
(Physical Activity during School – Strategy for Preventing Obesity)
- Author(s):Oana Nechita (Atomei)
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:223-235
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:Physical education; obesity; adolescents
- Summary/Abstract:Introduction: Besides family, the school must provide a suitable environment which leads to healthy eating behaviors and regular physical activity. The number of physical education classes decreased from numerous specializations in high school because of the greater emphasis on theory classes. Most teenagers spend their free time in front of a screen: TV, computer, tablet or smartphone, instead of doing various physical activities outdoors. Besides unhealthy diets, these behaviors promotes obesity during adolescence. Materials and Methods: We evaluated 223 students aged between 14 and 18 years old. We aimed to identify, evaluate, analyze and establish correlations between anthropometric parameters, physical activity and obesity, based on questionnaires completed by students.Results: Physical Activity Survey showed that among 223 high school students, 33 do not participate in physical education class, and 5 are overweight or obese. 53% go walking, on average, less than half an hour on the way home-school, 33% within one hour, 10% in about 2 hours, 1% in about 3 hours and 3% over 3 hours. 63% spend 1-4 hours a day watching TV and 64% use computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone. Among 21 overweight and obese students identified, 15 students spend more than 4 hours a day in front of a screen. Concluzie: Physical activity during school is very important in preventing obesity. Measures for obesity prevention among teenagers are increasing the number of physical education classes, especially in classes that have now allocated one hour per week, and proper time management.
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Quality of Training and its Consequences in the Education System
Quality of Training and its Consequences in the
Education System
(Quality of Training and its Consequences in the
Education System)
- Author(s):Roxana Constanța Enache, Alina Crişan
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:237-240
- No. of Pages:4
- Keywords:Quality training; education system; teaching; learning
- Summary/Abstract:The present paper aims at capturing scientific criteria in the implementation of training programs and their impact on Romanian educational system, under the circumstances in which we should have predominantly axiologic education and compulsory education is centerd on the volume of information. Training should be itself oriented toward practicing values and not on transmission/acquisition of knowledge or skills training. As developing behaviors, attitudes and values is a priority in training, more teachers will implement in the education system priority objectives aimed at practicing values, then train/ practice/ develop skills, abilities and, last but not least, passing information that become knowledge through learning.
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The Evaluation - an Essential Component of the Teaching Approach in the Romanian Language and Literature Classes
The Evaluation - an Essential Component of the Teaching Approach in the Romanian Language and Literature Classes
(The Evaluation - an Essential Component of the Teaching Approach in the Romanian Language and Literature Classes)
- Author(s):Cristina Loredana Bloju
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:243-253
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Evaluation; methods; teaching; romanian language
- Summary/Abstract:The curricular reform that changed the paradigm of teaching and learning in teaching-learning-evaluation/assessment adds a new connotation to the evaluation process. A lesson of romanian language and literature it’s not fully completed unless we place in it the evaluation. Whether it is about the several appreciations of the teacher at the end of each activity, whether it’s about an formative evaluation or the one that ends an cycle of acquired knowledges, the evaluation techniques must come to suport perfecting the learning activities of students or to improve the teaching activity. The informations provided by the evaluation represent a landmark not only for students but also for teachers. The results obtained by students may require the teacher to improve certain aspects of his teaching technique, also it indicates to the teacher what must be done to stimulate and motivate the students in order to obtain better results. In this paper, we aim to highlight the importance of the evaluative approach in the romanian language and literature classes, that becomes increasingly more pronounced and recognized throughout the educational reform undertaken at the moment, and also to exemplify some of the used methods especially at this stage of teaching. What we want to emphasize is that the evaluation methods and techniques must be used in order to achieve the necessary correlations to make more efficient the teaching-learning-evaluation process and to achieve our wishes – the formation of autonomous, free and creative personalities.
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Study Regarding the Improvement of the Teaching-Learning Process in Primary Schools through Innovation in Educational Design
Study Regarding the Improvement of the Teaching-Learning Process in Primary Schools through Innovation in Educational Design
(Study Regarding the Improvement of the Teaching-Learning Process in Primary Schools through Innovation in Educational Design)
- Author(s):Alina Crişan, Roxana Constanța Enache
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:255-263
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:Teaching-learning process; primary school; educational design; innovation
- Summary/Abstract:The research presented in this paper started from an initial study at the primary school level. Through polls applied through focus groups and questionnaires the teacher’s perceptions on determinant factors of the quality of the teaching process at the primary school level were identified.Starting from these conclusions we considered that a closer attention should be given to the teaching process quality through an approach oriented toward innovation of the educational design and the initiation of some endeavors of improvement at the level of each subject in the educational design is necessary. The development of the research took place in the school years 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 each of them being a distinct stage in identifying and implementing the solutions considered being the most pertinent in reaching the intended results. The whole enterprise took place according to the Deming cycle/ PDCA (plan-do-check-act). We have to mention the fact that the research process, that is the identification of the improvement means is not considered closed at the present moment, being, according to the Kaizen philosophy, an everlasting one.
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Canonical Authors Studied in High School – Patriarchal and Anchronistic Gender Education?
Canonical Authors Studied in High School – Patriarchal and Anchronistic Gender Education?
(Canonical Authors Studied in High School – Patriarchal and Anchronistic Gender Education?)
- Author(s):Nicoleta Foltea
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:265-282
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:Gender dimension; anachronistic and patriarchal perspective; novels; high school.
- Summary/Abstract:The study of Romanian language and litareture aims at offering pupils a means of signifier framing articulation of the world, i.e. of being able to know, explain and internalize reality, to produce messages concerning all aspects of life, supposedly including gender dimension. The article indends to reveal how much and towards what gender education is oriented by means of the Romanian language and literature curricula, as well ashow much and in what way is that achieved by means of studying in high school the novels belonging to canonical authors, starting from the premise that - as the impact studies for compulsory education occasioned by the repeated reforms of the Romanian educational system in post-December Romania a patriarchal and anachronistic prospect - is continued. The existing studies don't aim for an analysis of the gender issue at the secondary level, which offers the frame for the present investigation. Thus, the content analysis of high school curricula and of the significant sequences form the novels belonging to the canonical authors, which is achieved by applying two non-standard coding schemes, confirms the hypothesis that, all along the literature sudy in high school there are conveyed contents conflicting with the social trends towards the "reflexive modernity" (Vlăsceanu, 2007). This analytic perspective of gender education through literary study reveals deficiency in curricula conceiving as well as in selecting the texts proposed for study by the textbooks authors.
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Perspectives of Initial Training and Continuing Development of Teachers in Primary Education- a Comparative Analysis
Perspectives of Initial Training and Continuing Development of Teachers in Primary Education- a Comparative Analysis
(Perspectives of Initial Training and Continuing Development of Teachers in Primary Education- a Comparative Analysis)
- Author(s):Ancuţa Franţ
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:283-289
- No. of Pages:7
- Keywords:Initial training; continuing development; primary education
- Summary/Abstract:Since early times, initial training has been subsumed to the initiative of teachers, who are the centre of the educational system, and who set contents, structures, organizational forms based on time, place and action units. Initial training is generally addressed to a narrow segment of the population, adolescents and youth under 25 years of age, whose development is malleable and available to teachers.Continuing professional development concerns the young adults over 25, students who are looking forward to adapting their training in view of changing the activity. Continuous learning is included in the concept of lifelong learning, a term used by the European Commission, which means alternating professional activity with short periods of information acquisition.In Europe, a network was founded, based on a better understanding of educational policies. Each state has the right to decide its own system of education and training, but also must provide a uniform platform of educational needs. Ensuring the quality of education is an advantage for future education. Human resources must first and foremost be ensured, as they facilitate substantial transformation in the educational reality. Other elements that ensure the quality of education are those related to: ● the important role of teachers; ● the community’s participation in education; ● relationship with the social and natural environment, family, church.
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Flipped Classroom – Modernization Strategy of Teaching-Learning Process in Higher Education
Flipped Classroom – Modernization Strategy of
Teaching-Learning Process in Higher Education
(Flipped Classroom – Modernization Strategy of
Teaching-Learning Process in Higher Education)
- Author(s):Mihai Stanciu
- Language:Romanian
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:291-300
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Flipped classroom; higher education experiences regarding the reversed classroom; Flipped Learning and TIC
- Summary/Abstract:Reformation of higher education system has also a significant psychopedagogical component, neglected, unfortunately, in Romania. Focusing the didactic approach on student’s needs and interests may represent a way of modernization in the teaching-learning process. International experience highlights the concept of reversed classroom (classe inversée / flipped classroom) as a modernization strategy of teaching-learning process in higher education.Having in view these aspects, the goal of our paper is to make a bibliographic synthesis, presenting some concrete experiences in the development of the didactic approach from universities and, based on this, we have made some suggestions for Romanian higher education.The first experiments dealing with these problems were made by Eric Mazur, professor of Physics at Harvard, starting with 1990’s. As opposed to traditional teaching of academic lectures, in a flipped classroom model the students will watch on line, at home, video lectures with new topics, will carry out research using materials prepared and posted on-line by the teacher (we are not talking here about distance learning). Class activities, carried out in seminar rooms and laboratories, will focus on practical applications, on the effort of solving (in group or individually) of some practical problems.The role played by the teacher changes: he prepares video lessons, organizes favourable situations for an efficient learning, he guides the students’skill development in writing and presenting projects, individually or in group.The implementation process of this teaching-learning strategy pressuposes the existence of an adequate technological support, which means the modernization of the academic environment in accordance with actual trends. At the same time, the teaching staff should be trained continuously and individually to navigate computer technologies involved in the successful implementation of the flipped model.
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Educational Resources – Functional Elements of the Educational Environment at Early Age
Educational Resources – Functional Elements of the Educational Environment at Early Age
(Educational Resources – Functional Elements of the Educational Environment at Early Age)
- Author(s):Sofia Loredana Tudor
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:301-309
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:Early childhood education; educational environment; educational resources; stimulating areas; educational toy
- Summary/Abstract:Introducing skills as goals of the school curriculum in preschool education, by redefining curricula in primary schools, by formulating them in explicit terms of general skills/ specific skills, represented for these levels of schooling a starting point in redefining the educational acting frame, also in redefining the components of the educational process and the analysis perspective of pedagogical interdependencies between them. The school curriculum incorporates new elements of the educational process by taking into account the paradigmatic evolution, the innovations in the sphere of teaching methodology, the development categories of educational resources and the need of optimum use of their formative and informative value.This paper aims to analyze the importance of valuing the pedagogical potential of educational resources at early ages by providing a suitable educational environment for child´s training needs, for multiple intelligences development, for his interactive involvement in building his own knowledge.Theoretical study findings highlight the compensatory value of the modern and traditional educational resources, the multimedia and open resources, as their complementary value by increasing the educational potential of the educational environment.
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New Orientations in the Evaluation of Psychical Development and Academic Achievements at Early Ages
New Orientations in the Evaluation of Psychical Development and Academic Achievements at Early Ages
(New Orientations in the Evaluation of Psychical Development and Academic Achievements at Early Ages)
- Author(s):Maria Magdalena Stan
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences
- Page Range:311-322
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Evaluation of academic achievement; psychical development; academic achievement; early ages
- Summary/Abstract:The sumptions of the present paper represent the methodological and practical necessity of an objective and unitary evaluation at the academic studied level, mainly at early ages (the task being the first literacy – the learning of writing - reading and ciphering) with a view to monitorize, to diagnose and prognosticate the academic results and to certify the level of academic achievement. The present paper proposes a modality of evaluating academic achievement as well as the development level at early ages.
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