The Experience on the Higher Education Programmes among the Master’s Students – A Multicultural Approach

Author(s): Márton Tonk,Tünde Székely / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In this study, we present a research focusing on the implementation and consequences of the Bologna Process, in a multicultural approach. As far as we know, in Romania, there were no similar projects realized. The research was realized in Cluj-Napoca, between 21st of March 2010 and 30th of June 2011. The methodology of the research: we will present the findings of the faceto- face survey among the Master’s (MA/MSc) students at the state universities in Cluj-Napoca. The study language was taken in consideration during the research and the results are partly presented by using this differentiation. The results of our research are presented in this study, and the most interesting findings are the following: the Bologna Process – after its application during the last 5 years – did not achieve its most important goals, which were the mobility of the students and the preparation of the students for the labour market. The mobility – among those MA and MSc students who completed our survey – it is not more than 14%, and most of them said that the higher education does not prepare them to take a job according to their professional training. The Bologna Process – five years after its coming into effect – has not yet reached its most relevant objectives, which are (1) student mobility – it reached 14% among the students who filled out our questionnaire – and (2) the preparation of the graduates for the real demands of the European Union’s labour market. The failure to realize these objectives can be concluded from the students’ statements, the majority believing that university studies fall short in getting them prepared to take up a job that suits their professional trainings. The most significant problem that emerged after the application of the Bologna Process is the very fact that the graduates’ level of preparation does not meet the actual demands of the labour market neither at national level nor at the level of the European Union. Therefore, these students come to be ‘unemployed graduates’. Regarding the above-mentioned problem, we present some suggestions for its resolution in the paper presented.

“Three-fold Identity?” The Ethnical and National Identity of the Hungarian Boyash Gypsies

Author(s): Mátyás Binder / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The Roma are possibly the largest minority group in the European Union. Yet this group is composed of communities with varying languages, cultures and identities. The obvious cause of this variety is that the Gypsies1 compose a large diaspora stretching across five continents, and accordingly, among every community living in a minority, different processes of adaptation led to the formation of distinct identities. In my opinion, three factors – all generated by living in a diaspora – influence the ethnical and national dimensions of the Romani identity: social categorization, national socialization and ethnical identity. Society’s perception, the socialization processes in the nation state institution systems, and the Gypsy community’s own ethnical culture are all factors, which supposedly have or have been an influence on most Romani identities.

Smart kids? Szekler Teenagers, Parents and Teachers in the Age of Smartphones

Author(s): Orsolya Gergely / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Analysing the smartphone usage of Hungarian adolescents from Romania, Orsolya Gergely points out that, while the use of smartphones is gaining ground spectacularly in the lives of young people, attitudes are divided on the matter. Approaches to telephone use have become an important issue in school education, and a particular typology can be outlined regarding teachers’ attitudes on the issue. Like other researchers, Gergely also shows that the generation gap currently hinders the strategic application of ICT tools in schools.

News Feed Construction in Social Media

Author(s): Barna Kovács / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

An important issue regarding the flow of information facilitated by ICT tools is how the information could be optimized, made more consumable, and easier to understand. Barna Kovács’s study proposes a theoretical framework by visualizing a “news-feed” framework.

“Society, you Need to Grow Up!”

Author(s): Rita Glózer / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

One of the most disputed phenomena of the information society is the expansion of personal space with the help of web 2.0 tools. An important interface for this purpose is Instagram. Through analysing the self-disclosure and fan-community gathering methods of adolescents living in Hungary, Rita Glózer finds that in essence, online social communication has similar objectives to offline social communication.

A kiváltságos hozzáférés tulajdonításának fejlődése kétnyelvű óvodásoknál

Author(s): Krisztina Bartha / Language(s): Hungarian Publication Year: 0

Privileged access to mental states is the cognitive process that allows a person to access his/her own mental structures. The attribution of privileged access implies that, in interaction with others, we assume that the other person can access and express their own mental states (see Kiss–Jakab 2014). My research questions are: when does the ability to attribute privileged access appear in bilingual preschool children and how does it develop? Do bilingual children benefit from their bilingualism in this cognitive ability compared to their monolingual peers? According to my hypothesis, early, simultaneous bilingual children develop this ability sooner than monolingual and early but successive bilinguals. 50 preschool children between the age of 4 and 6 participated in this experiment. The children were divided into two groups according to whether they were successive or simultaneous bilinguals. Using the method developed by Bartsch and Wellman (1989), I investigated the children’s ability to attribute privileged access by listening to three short, everyday stories and then responding to the questions asked by the experimenter regarding the mental states of the characters in the story. The results support my hypothesis that the attribution of privileged access to cognitive abilities also develops faster in bilingual children.

Kárpátaljai gasztrofesztiválok nyelvi tájképe

Author(s): Zoltán Karmacsi / Language(s): Hungarian Publication Year: 0

Transcarpathia is a real tourist attraction with its cultural, natural, and architectural diversity. In addition to domestic tourists, the region is also favoured by foreign tourists. In my study, I would like to present the linguistic landscape of festivals organized in areas inhabited by Hungarians. I would like to highlight the impact of increased tourism demand on the linguistic landscape of festivals in the area, how domestic tourism influences (if it does at all) the linguistic aspect of the signage, the changes in language use, the linguistic characteristics of marketing activities, etc. I would also like to describe the quality of the translation in those cases where the signs appear in more than one language.

ÎNSUŞIRI ALE IDENTITĂŢII REGIONALE

Author(s): Valentin Trifescu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The paper analyses the issue of regional identity from an interdisciplinary point of view as it exploits concepts of various research fields, among which there are philosophy, culturology, literary criticism, and art history. Thus, conveying a better understanding of the notion of “regional identity” and the phenomenon of regionalism, we shall reinterpret and adapt concepts such as recessivity, secondary, threshold, and parergon. During our analysis, we shall take into account the tight relations which link regional identity to national identity and regionalism to nationalism.

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SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF BIOCHEMISTRY CONCEPTS BY USING WORD ASSOCIATION TEST

Author(s): Tamara N. Rončević,Saša A. Horvat,Dušica D. Rodić,Ivana Bogdanović / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

A word association test was used to determine knowledge structures on biochemistry concepts of secondary school chemistry students, aged between 18-19 years. The basic biochemistry concepts related to the topic of Carbohydrates that take place in the International Baccalaurate Diploma Programme curriculum were determined as stimulus words: “Monosaccharides”, “Glucose”, “Cellular respiration”, “Fructose”, “Disaccharides”, “Glycosidic bonds”, “Polysaccharides”, “Starch”. Students were required to provide response words for each of the eight stimulus words within the pre-determined period of time. Analysis of data was done in order to find the stimulus words with the highest number of associations in students’ knowledge structures and to calculate the relatedness coefficient between the stimulus words, in order to construct the relatedness networks that should model the students’ knowledge structures. The results showed that students managed to relate most of the stimulus words with strong or medium strength links, however, “Cellular respiration” remained unconnected to other stimulus words in the students’ knowledge structures.