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About the monographic essay "Rebreanu dincolo de realism" (Rebreanu Across the Realism) of Ion Simut.
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This study presents the main results of a sociological research regarding public conceptions and attitudes toward persons with mental health problems. According to this analysis, in Romania there is a consistent knowledge deficit with respect to mental health related concepts. The Romanian population is reticent in applying the label “mental illness”, but, at least at the public perception level, the former patients of mental hospitals have to face devaluation and discrimination more severe than in countries such as Germany, Russia or Slovakia. The large majority of the population knows to identify a mental health problem, but do not usually put this knowledge into practice.
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The way that people are defining their requirements for a qualitative life or for a decent standard of living, is affecting their evaluations, their perceptions and also their level of satisfaction on different life domains. This article proposes to describe the needs identified by Romanians in order to have “a good life” or “a decent standard of living”. The article is based on the data from two researches: Quality of Life Diagnosis (2006) and Standard Eurobarometer 67.1 (2007) and it is presenting the Romanians opinions in a comparison with the opinions of other Europeans from member or candidate countries of the European Union. Within the article, it was included a component regarding the evaluation of economic strain in the European households and the perception of causes for poverty, because these may contribute to establishing criteria for standard of living or for a good life. The last part of the article is referring to measures for improving the living conditions, as they are identified by Romanians within the research Quality of Life Diagnosis (2006).
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Succesful implementation of private – public interaction patterns regarding the providing of services is a challenge for nowadays organizations. The advance of globalization in the same time with increasing the permeabilities of organizational boundaries induces a change of value-added generating processes. Therefore, the production processes of goods and services, including the employment services, are not any longer limited to a single organization, but to some networks of interconnected organizations. These networks describe the new architecture of organizational processes, the organizations being nodes of these networks. Private – public interaction patterns in providing employment services are examples of rethinking the generating processes of such services. The implementation of such patterns may represent a beginning in crafting a new inter-organizational process regarding the employment services where public, as well as private actors, become nodes of a new network.
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This paper intends to be an analysis on social exclusion and social inclusion, from two perspectives: (1) based on the very concepts, as terms in social policies and (2) as distinct areas of public policy. In other words, we approach both the theoretical component, which defines and interprets the terms, particularly in the academic environment, and the institutional component of evolution and coverage at the level of social policies. The theoretical perspective starts from the fact that the terms of social exclusion and social inclusion come rather from the institutional environment, becoming later subject of the academic debates, too. First, we will present part of the theoretical considerations on the two concepts. Second, we will discuss the social inclusion as example of relation between the institutional knowledge reflected in a direction of public policy, and the scientific knowledge. In institutional terms, as area of public policy, we will describe the evolution of the social inclusion policies in the European Union and Romania. In the beginning, we will show the main moments of social policy construction at the European level and the position of the policies of social inclusion within them. Regarding Romania, we will show the reference points of the process of institutional construction regarding the social inclusion and we will identify its place and role within the public policies, during the pre-accession and post-accession to the European Union.
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The high concern for continuous increasing of the rich and powerful’s welfare is responsible for the worldwide environmental destruction – directly, through their control of the resources distribution, and indirectly, through influencing the adoption of consumerist practices by the other social classes. Starting from 1980, humans have consumed resources regularily much faster than the Earth could regenerate them. In nature, such peaks are followed by species collapse. This phenomenon is known, but considering the powerfuls’ actions, it seems that, at least for now, things are going quite according to their interests. The poor are caught in a vicious cycle in which environmental and social crises feed on each other. They are the first to be robbed of food sources, driven out by drought or flood. All these are not supposed to go further in this way. Mankind has to search and find a new paradigm of welbeing, by meeting general needs, practicing an ecological and moral economy.
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Every society knows some level of inequality. The literature about types of stratification is extensive, showing that an individual has at least a different social position from the others; in other words, the individuals can belong to a social class and/or can have a social status. In this article I want to test the integrative social structure schema proposed by Anthony Giddens (1997) on the case of Romania, and to see how it is stratified. For the analysis I used Public Opinion Barometer (Soros Foundation Romania) from October, 2005. I used latent class analysis and the specific statistical software Latent Gold 4.0. The results partially confirm Giddens’ model on the case of Romania, showing, at the same time, that the Romanian society is stratified. Social structure theory and methodology well-known and accepted by scholars in stable social systems should be critically discused and adapted to the Romanian case.
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This article contains recommendations regarding public policies aimed to increase the access of young people to the labor market. These recommendations are based on the results of research conducted during the elaboration of author’s PhD thesis. It contains aspects regarding the stimulation of entrepreneurial skills among young people, and the increase of job attendance by them.
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Organized cultural life in Voivodina takes on a more specific shape in the second half of the 19th century. However, after the Second World War the Yugoslav Communist party, acting through the Narodni front initiates most cultural events. The Romanian minority in (Serbian) Banat has the same fate as all citizens of Tito’s Yugoslavia. They could not avoid the repression against the rich peasants, compulsory collectivization and nationalization.
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Primele două numere ale revistei Alloquor- Studia Humanitatis Iassyensia, cuprinse într-un remarcabil volum, argumentează prin semnificaţia titulului şi prin opţiunea programatică, “afirmarea spiritului românesc în toate domeniile cunoaşterii.” Cu o apariţie trimestrială şi cu o deschidere către ştiinţele umaniste, în paginile acestei reviste se poartă o discuţie asupra problemelor majore din teoria, istoria şi critica literară românească şi străină, din lingvistică, filosofie, istorie, etnologie, psihologie, pedagogie, religie etc. Revista este editată de Catedra de Limba Română pentru Studenţii Străini, de Departamentul de Limbă şi Literatură Română & Literatură comparată şi Facultatea de Litere din cadrul Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi
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Acest articol va prezenta 10, cele mai bune şi mai citite cărţi în anul 2008, după părerea editorilor de la New York Times. Este vorba de literatura contemporană scrisă sau tradusă în limba engleză.
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Teodora Stanescu Stancu’s doctoral dissertation titled „1985-1996 the crucial decade in transformation of central-eastern Europe“ represents a brave attempt to research the most recent history of Romania as a part of the changes in vicinity. The presentation of this book is also an opportunity to give some personal opinions and less compelling judgments about these current processes.
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The first doctoral dissertation about the Romanian literature in Voivodina (1945- 1989) was defended at the University of West in Timisoara. The work is a precious contribution to introduction of such literature. In the time when multiculturalism and cultural interference are favorable, this dissertation depicts the development of the literary creation of Voivodinian Romanians after the Second World War, including children`s literature which has developed parallel with the literature for adults.
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The necessity to reform the educational system resulted from global economy movements, especially from tension created on the global market. The reform should have adjusted the educational system to the new and improved economical circumstances that is to the neo-liberal market concept. The notion of education and investment in children has been known for a long time. Nevertheless, its form is somewhat different today. Today, people strive to create an educational system which can produce generations ready for, firstly, all the economical challenges the future brings. In the past, its focus was on building and strengthening the national consciousness or reproduction of a certain ideological concept.
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The elite – or some of its members – have been in the centre of one of the biggest public conflicts in Romanian post-communism. The good news is that it has not been defeated yet. The bad news is that its opponents are still in good shape. Apart from that, the new political anarchy which is being formed in Romania offers a fundamental idea for the continuation of hostility between two cultural institutions from Romania: Tismanianu Commission and the Romanian Culture Institute.
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In his „Bald Singer“ Ionescu demystifies the last century. “To demystify means to decompose, question, clarify the big myths or dens of mental situations, what Remboe did with Christianity. I depicted such things in “Bald Singer” because there is a parody on the spoken language, parody on theatre, questioning of that theatre. In this play I put the culture into question: the characters say one thing and do another: one dark vitality denies everything we thing or think we think and this leads to the criticism of every ideology. I always said that I was not interested in what people think, but what makes them think what they think. This leads to demystification of every ideology.
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Being a so-called forever rebel, the German philosopher Peter Sloterdik in the last chapter of the third volume of his trilogy “Spharen”, depicts the contours of the modern west civilization, that is of the world of abundance which tends to be spoiled striving for luxurious and dissolute way of life. He opposes those who write laments to poverty and misery – either because of conservativism or left radicalism. According to this philosopher there are so many laments to poverty and misery that they get in the way of understanding the reality. Peter Sloterdik writes about developed societies like Germany and USA and argues that statistics show that the number of poor people decreases to 10 or15 percent.
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Unpromising way of life in villages forces young people to search for a better life in cities or abroad. Thus, the circle closes: villages become poorer and poorer, and this becomes a serious social problem. For the Romanian minority in Voivodina and Serbia, village is important for two reasons: agriculture is the basic preoccupation of more than 60 percent of the Romanian population. At the same time, the population living in villages makes the foundation and the essence of the existence of all cultural activities of this minority. With the disappearance of the village, the solid, clearly defined core of the population melts down. All the festivals, cultural organizations, media as well as schools in Romanian language aim at that population. Rural life in Voivodina faces itself with a big decision: if its goes with the flow of today’s developmental politics in Serbia, it will end up as a museum piece.
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La numai şase luni de zile de la terminarea războiului din R.F.I., un grup ambiţioşi de români s-au întrunit în jurul unui proiect comun – înfiinţarea unei noi publicaţii româneşti. În acest sens, cunoscutul ziarist Petru Tomici a înregistrat o marcă, Secolul 21, punct de plecare al ziarului – magazin pentru întreaga familie cum scria în frontispiciu.
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The necessity to reform the educational system resulted from global economy movements, especially from tension created on the global market. The reform should have adjusted the educational system to the new and improved economical circumstances that is to the neo-liberal market concept. The notion of education and investment in children has been known for a long time. Nevertheless, its form is somewhat different today. Today, people strive to create an educational system which can produce generations ready for, firstly, all the economical challenges the future brings. In the past, its focus was on building and strengthening the national consciousness or reproduction of a certain ideological concept.
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A century and a half has passed since first educated Romanians appeared in today’s Voivodina. This group of educated Romanians kept increasing and forming the Romanian cultural elite. These people were very successful professionally. Apart from professional knowledge they have broader social and political visions. The whole territory where the minority lives experienced a great agricultural, cultural and educational development. The activities of the intellectuals represent a special yet unexplored field.
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În luna mai a anului 2007, la Cluj -Napoca a avut loc Con ferin ţa Internaţion ală intitulată Modernizarea în România în secolele XIX- XXI, patron ată de către Centru l d e Studii Tran silvane al Academie i Ro mâne. Luc rările prezentate la ace astă confe rinţă au fost sintetizate într-un vo lum d eosebit de in teresant, ap ăru t în anul 2008, purtând titlul Schimbare şi deven ire în istoria României . Subiectul propus de către organizatorii aceste i confe rinţe deosebit de imp ortante n e -ar putea trezi un interes aparte, având în vede re fap tul că acesta se poate ad uce în le gătură direc tă sau mai pu ţin dire ctă cu populaţia r omâne asc ă din actualul Banat sârbesc.
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Scopul acestui articol este de a cunoaşte cititorul nostru starea actuală în unele reviste de literatură şi artă apărute în Rusia. Autorii acestor reviste ţin seama de toate categoriile de cititori, de aceea au o tematică variată. Se publică multă poezie şi proză, mai ales generaţia scriitorilor tineri. În textele de faţă vă prezint trei reviste ruseşti, care apar periodic în Rusia: „Contemporanul nostru”numărul întâi şi nr. opt din anul 2008, „Drapelul” nr. trei /2007 apărute la Moscova şi „Steaua” numărul opt din anul 2008, care apare la Sankt- Petersburg.
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Într-o societate, într-o lume obosită în fuga ei spre distrugere, semănând cu un bolnav fugit de la casa de nebuni, unde se învârt şi se amestecă valorile, dar al cărei corp este încă viu, există întotdeauna semne de autoapărare, există un organ al acestui trup care încearcă să producă anticorpii necesari vindecării şi regenerării. Întreaga lume e în criză, dar aici, în Serbia, peste criza mondială se suprapun toate bolile, războaiele şi fricile unui trecut nu foarte îndepărtat, care au lăsat cicatrici adânci într-o conştiinţă aflată în reformare. Indiferent de condiţii, bunul simţ, bunul gust şi bunele intenţii, dacă există, reacţionează, răspund, se revoltă şi chiar dacă nu pot schimba multe, arată spre boală, încearcă să definească răul. De aceea a apărut la sfârşitul anilor `90 grupul LED ART, care prin proiectele şi acţiunile sale era răspunsul la acţiunile unei societăţii nevrotice, agresive, paranoice şi depresive, la care s-a ajuns în perioada Miloševic şi care a încercat să nu fie nepăsător, să aibă o atitudine prin acţiunile de stradă ce le-a desfăşurat în acea perioadă.
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Într-o lume deja multi-polară, inter şi trans-sistemică, optica teoriei războiului rece sau a ciocnirii civilizaţiilor încă mai orbecăie opresiv, din interior în afară, datorită opacităţii neputincioase inerţiale în care, perimată, viziunea unisistemică s-a baricadat. Căci, tocmai prin autosuficienţa care de fapt îl închide, orice sistem se sufocă, se macină, se destramă, degenerează – niciunul nu-şi poate provoca întrebările care să-l deschidă, să-l regenereze împotriva închistării sale intriseci, tenace, stabilizatoare şi conservatoare. Românii transfrontalieri şi-au desmărginit ţara mentală. Captivi remanenţelor, cei de acasă ţin însă morţiş să... transfugă oricând, de afară, în temniţa sistemică dinăuntru.
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Născut la 15 iulie 1948 în comuna Codreni din vecinătatea lui Alexei Mateevici, Nicolae Dabija a intrat în conştiinţa cititorului activ al cărţii naţionale româneşti chiar de la apariţia plachetei sale de debut, Ochiul al treilea. Cu suflet sensibil, cu un destin dominat de poezie, intuiţie lingvistică, acest poet basarabean izvorăşte din contextul naţional în care i-a fost sortit să se integreze mai târziu. Aceste particularităţi au căpătat contururi precise în volume, de la început şi până la realizarea operei sale, în care ne comunică adevărul la prima vedere cu mijloace simple sufletului şi inimii sale şi ne îndeamnă să ocrotim valoarea omenească. Gloanţele din titlul cărţii lui Nicolae Dagija, Maraton printre gloanţe, sunt probabil nu altceva decât metafora anilor trecuţi, ani care trezesc melancolia în sufletul poetului.
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Săptămânalul scriitorilor din Republica Moldova fondat la 3 octombrie 1954 care apare la Chişinău, „LITERATURA ŞI ARTA”, oferă cititorului pe cele 8 pagini poezie, proză, comentarii şi critică literară. Redactor-şef a acestei reviste este Nicolae Dabija. O altă revistă lunară cu 24 de pagini care apare din 1994 la Chişinău, este revista tinerilor scriitori din Republica Moldova, „CONTRAFORT”. Din nr. 8, 2008 a acestei reviste aşi pomeni pe Vladimir Bulat cu articolul „De cealaltă parte a Dunării: Serbia creştină”, unde scrie despre despre călătoria sa prin Serbia şi despre mănăstirile Ravanica, Studenica şi Moraca. „SUD-EST CULTURAL - revistă trimestrială de artă, cultură şi civilizaţie, la fel apare la Chişinău. Redactor-şef: Valentina Tăzlăuanu.Autorii permanenţi a acestei reviste sunt: Leo Botnaru, Mihai Cimpoi, Constantin I.Ciobanu ş.a. Revista cuprinde eseuri, poezie, teatru, aniversări. „Atunci-partidul, acum gaşca” este titlul articolului de pe pagina de dialog din nr.3, 2008, cu mărturisirile lui Serafim Saka.
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Right extremism represents one of the biggest problems of democratic societies. The text especially deals with socio-political context on post Yugoslav territory considering the mentioned socio-political context one of the fundamental causes of expansion of the right extremism. Contemporary social and political changes on the territory of ex Yugoslavia justify the role change of the right extremism in the new circumstances.
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In the period between the wars, spectacular research and experiments took place and created different directions and levels. This is a period when people rise from tensions of political extremists which reflect on social and cultural spheres. A period when young people fear (self)cognition and search for spiritual masters trying to answer metaphysic questions. That was the time of the biggest cultural amplitude with so many new possibilities. Apart from the epoch of the “big classics”, the epoch between two world wars gave many big writers like Nicolae Iorga, Lucian Blaga, Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade, a whole pleiad of significant thinkers and creators who lifted the standard of Romanian spirit to the level which can be compared to other big European cultures.
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Cartea intitulată Gânduri despre viaţă şi conştiinţă a cărui autor este fostul preşedinte al Sloveniei, Janez Drnovšek, a stârnit numeroase controverse. Unii afirmă că această carte ne vorbeşe despre un nivel mai înalt de conştiinţă spirituală, iar unii cred că este vorba de un simplu joc politic. Aceasta a şi dus la vinderea întregului tiraj, de 8000 de exemplare, imediat după apariţia cărţii. Cartea este scrisă de Drnovšek în doar 48 de zile şi cuprinde teme spirituale şi teme în legătură cu schimbările în societate. Cartea este împărţită în 48 de capitole, iar fiecare capitol este dedicat unei zile. Pe lângă realitatea contemporană abordată în această carte, putem citi şi despre conştiinţă şi despre dezvoltarea spirituală până la cel mai înalt nivel al conştiinţei, despre mărimea binelui, despre încredere în sine şi despre traiul vieţii.
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Test anxiety has generated a rich literature focused on its causes, specific psychological manifestations, as well focused on its consequences upon individual functioning. Test anxiety is frequently encountered among elementary school pupils, high school students, undergraduates, as well in adult population. There is a large number of measurement scales for the cognitive, emotional and behavioral manifestations of test anxiety. Among these, the Test Anxiety Inventory/TAI proposed and developed by Ch. D. Spielberger is widely used both for the research purpose, and the test anxiety assessment in school/university population. The aim of this paper is to present the stages undertaken in TAI inventory standardization on a group of Romanian high school students. The TAI was responded to by 1574 students from eight high schools, out of which 831 girls and 743 boys. The data indicated a good internal consistency. Between the scores of the girls and those of the boys there were statistically significant differences. On the other hand, statistically significant differences between inventory scores of students of different grades were found. In the last section of paper, the norms are presented separately for girls and boys, as well for different grades.
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Recently there has been an increase in the impact of modern stress and coping theories from a cognitive point of view on the research in the field of families having children with disabilities. These theories, also, have an impact on the studies regarding reactions of different family members to having a disabled family member and the research focusing on their adaptation to this circumstance. Our study is based on the cognitive adaptation theory of Taylor and on the Double ABCX Model of McCubbin and Patterson that was introduced to describe post crisis adaptation of family members to child disability. Applying Kansas Inventory of Parental Perceptions to 185 parents, 92 parents with children with disabilities and 93 parents with children without disabilities, we have undertaken a comparative analysis of parents' perceptions on their children as sources of positive contributions. In the case of parents of disabled children in particular, we studied their perception on the situation of having a disabled child. We were motivated by our wish to make a step toward understanding the perceptions' role in cognitive adaptation to child disability.
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Oral language represents the most important instrument of communication of thoughts thus language is vital for the adaptation to the norms of any society. The main objective of this research is to determine the importance of different factors, environmental and individual in the determination of age differences (4 to 6 years) in the expressive language ability. The instruments used in this study are: Preschool Language Assessment Instrument, PLAI, 2nd edition, a test for determining work memory (adapted after Hughes, 1998), a vocabulary scale (Raven, 1988) and a demographic questionnaire that contains references to the educational level of the parents, number of siblings and the birth order of the evaluated child and respectively the whole income of the family. Results obtained on 80 participants show that individual variables (vocabulary and work memory) explain 53% of oral language variance and from the socio-demographic variables only the educational level of the mother is significant, this explaining 5,4%. An important factor is the fact that in either of the tested ierarhic regression models the individual variables and the socio-demographic ones did not reduce to insignificant the contribution of age which suggests the necessity to respect the initial model, thus increasing its predictive value.
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Didactic activities require competencies that imply the assimilation of psycho pedagogical and domain specific knowledge as well as a large repertoire of practical activities. The practical component of the process of acquiring competences for didactic activities has double meaning: on the one hand, it is the context in which the student is offered the models of didactic action, the framework in which he can practice and is able to form action logarithms; on the other hand it constitutes the primary mean for the process of internalization of those elements that will serve as the basis for his professional identity, these occurring only trough systematic, coherent and consistent identification with professional models. Professional authority is a personality characteristic of the educator which is formed in close relationship with the acquisition of professional identity.
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In this study we studied the relationship between interpersonal perception and sociometric status, in the classroom environment. Interpersonal perception of intelligence, sociability and empathy was taken into account. Participants were members of four classrooms (N=118), with an average age of 15.5 years. The analysis of the relationship between interpersonal perception and sociometric status yielded significant results in the way classmates of different status were perceived. The strongest differences were identified between the popular and rejected status categories, with the controversial members being perceived in a similar manner as the rejected ones, suggesting that a predictive model of sociometric status could be constructed based on the interpersonal perception factors.
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The Organismic Integration Theory describes the internalization process of extrinsic motivation. Unlike the intinsic-extrinsic dichotomy, it acknowledges the existence of several forms of motivations, with different degree of self-determination. We used a sample of 141 students for the factorial validation of The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire. The exploratory factorial analysis with varimax rotation shows four factors, explaining 50,54% of the variance: external regulation, amotivation, intrinsic motivation, and identified regulation. The results are consistent with The Self-Determination Theory. The stability coefficients are high, but the internal consistency coefficients are relatively small for Amotivation and Extrinsic Regulation. Nevertheless, we believe that the instrument is efficient for the assessment of motivational regulation in the academic environment.
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The paper proposes an incursion in the condition of the contemporary teenager, in order to reveal some of the jeopardise he is confronted with, in the frame of the axiological disturbances of the contemporary world, but also due to his structural age specific fragility. The harmful effects, which are generated by the TV and especially by computer addiction are analysed. The psycho-behavioural profile of the EMO teenager is underlined. As a result some guiding marks are sketched, in order to prevent the phenomenon, or to recover the EMO teenager.
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Descending from old boyars living in Moldavia from the first half of the fifteenth century, the Ciocârlie family is attested under this name during the reign of Stephen the Great. Some members of this family were Stephen’s advisers, and Ivan Ciocârlie fought and died in the great battle against the Ottomans at Vaslui, in 1475. The descendants of Ivan Ciocârlie and Nicoară, his brother, could be traced throughout the following centuries. They were lesser boyars, many of them literate. During the second half of the seventeenth century and in the first half of the eighteenth century, many of Ciocârlie boyars wrote and signed several documents. In the same period, the family progressively lost its status. The present paper reconstructs the genealogy and the evolution of this boyar family, whose name is that of a bird, Ciocârlie (Lark), revealing its ancient roots.
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Each of Michael the Brave's deeds, accomplished either by sword, by speech or by action, has been known and thoroughly discussed, both in his time, as in the last two and a half centuries of historiography. In this article, I brought some new details regarding Michael's descent in the female line, contributing to the elucidation of Marula's biography, the prince's illegitimate daughter, and to a better knowledge of Florica's life, the prince's legitimate daughter. This article also initiates a discussion on the status of illegitimate children, more precisely on their acknowledgment as a first step in the legitimizing process.
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The first historical writings of the Transylvanian Saxons were incidental notes on the margins of different manuscripts or prints (since the second half of the fifteenth century) which recorded extraordinary events, such as wars (especially Ottoman invasions), natural disasters and celestial phenomena. Since the first half of the sixteenth century, due to the spreading of writing and reading in the Reformation that the Transylvanian Saxon society began recording historical facts and events, which seemed to be out of the daily life, in chronicles. The oldest extant Saxon chronicles of Transylvania had been written in the city of Braşov (Kronstadt), in the period1528-1590. We identified five chronicles from this period containing important information on the history of Transylvania, Moldavia and Walachia in the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. The authors of this chronicles are Lucas Grüngrass (city notary of Braşov), Hieronymus Ostermayer (organist in the main church of Braşov), Laurentius Kertius (member of the city counsel of Braşov), Christian Thobiae (preacher and priest in Braşov and in the surrounding Saxon settlements) and an unknwon author of a painted chronicle on the walls of the main church (today the so called Black Church) in Braşov. All of the authors lived in the sixteenth century, contemporary with the historical events mentioned in their chronicles. Unfortunately, the original manuscripts did not survived and we have to reconstitute their texts from late copies, dating from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, far from being complete, some nothing but scraps of the original chronicles. Nonetheless, based on these copies, we attempt to reconstruct the original sixteenth century chronicle texts and to prepare a critical edition, with a Romanian translation.
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The two pages featured in this issues under the "Together" heading feature excerpts from the research conducted by Smaranda Vultur. The subtitle is highly relevant: "Banat - Town Life Through Biographical Itineraries" takes the reader on a spiritual journey through the various aspects of Banat, as seen at various moments in history by some of its inhabitants. The interviews have been taken by Adrian Onică, adriana Roşioru, Voichiţa Năchescu, Roxana Pătraşcu and Smaranda Vultur.
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Cristina Chevereşan reviews two volumes that seem to have put together the bulk of the most important articles ever published with regard to Mihail Sebastian's controversial figure."Sebastian Under the Judgement of Time. The Solitude and Vulnerability of the Witness" and "The Mihail Sebastian File" are the two works edited by the Universal Dalsi Publishing House, Bucharest. The reviewer tries to summarize the most important trends that appear in an impressive mass of contradictory information, indicating to the reader the most elloquent contributions and the main issues of the ever ongoing debate.
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Cornel Ungureanu starts the evocation of a legedary figure in the culture of Timişoara (and Europe, in general) from Ioan Holender's event-book, "From Timişoara to Vienna", a superb volume tracing an exceptional - both personal and historical - evolution. The successful head of the State Opera in Vienna is portrayed as the most photogenic man in the history of Timişoara, author of the most beautiful book dedicated to this town and creator of a special international and interpersonal relationship between Romanian, Austrian and European cultures.
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Otilia Hedeşan reviews a compehensive volume coordonated by Smaranda Vultur: "The Saved Memory: The Jews from the Banat Area, Today and Yesterday". The premises of the researcher are highlighted and discussed in detail, the book being recommended as a most thorough investigation into the personal and historical fascination given by life stories as means of retracing community memory.
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Having rounded up the cycle of Comments on Canetti, Livius Ciocârlie inaugurates a new series of "comments"; this time, the discourse focuses on the works of Lichtenberg. As usual, the Romanian essayist offers a personal, deep insight into the denotative and connotative mysteries of the literary work. Ciocârlie's "notes on being" continue to impress by means of the openness of his critical and emotional views.
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The first page of this issues "Fiction &Co." section offers a sample of Mircea Pora's writing. The excerpt entitled "The Armchair" is structured as an interview taken to a professor whose existence seems to have been dominated by a special relationship with the word "armchair". The surreal feeling exterted over the reader makes this short prose piece utterly enjoyable.
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In light of the future opening of the "Danilo Kis" Literary Cafe in the center of Timişoara, this issue's last page is dedicated to the well-known Serbian writer. The readers can enjoy an excerpt from his "early Sufferings" volume, in the Romanian version provided by Iasmina Petrovici.
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