{"title":"MANIFESTATIONS OF THE NEW PARADIGM OF EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ROMANIAN EDUCATION REFORM","authors":"Liana Tăușan","doi":"10.24250/JPE/2/2017/LT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/2/2017/LT","url":null,"abstract":"Among the lines taken into account in the reform of Romanian education, the reform of the curriculum is an essential segment and this is now a distinct theme in the sciences of education. The Curricular reform program represents a coherent approach to the educational national policy, designed and developed in line with current European trends and practices. The new approach to the National Curriculum has generated a different type of culture curriculum characterized by: centering the process of teaching on skills training objectives and skills; focusing on transforming the school teacher in a school by promoting student-centered interactive learning methods; cultivating students' creative skills and the creation of various learning situations; an inter and trans-disciplinary approach to school curriculum; the curriculum approach correlated with school performance and evaluation issues of initial and ongoing training of teachers. Following the major reform of education, adherence to the principles of the new educational paradigms – which appeared and were developed in answer to the need of adapting education to the challenges and changes of our contemporary world – is increasingly present in the educational process in Romania.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122527407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON IMPROVING EFFECTIVE TEACHING AT FIRST YEAR STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING HIGHER EDUCATION- A STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE","authors":"Lorena Peculea, A. Peculea","doi":"10.24250/JPE/2/2017/LP","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/2/2017/LP","url":null,"abstract":"The ultimate criterion of effective teaching is effective and successful learning. The paper focuses on an ascertaining research that investigates the students’ opinion about the effective teaching characteristics through a survey based on a questionnaire that was sent to 233 first year students from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, attending classes to prepare for a teaching career. The revised set of characteristics of effective teaching according to the Griffith University’s PRO-Teaching project (Klopper, C., Drew, S., 2015) presented originally as ‘eight dimensions of good teaching’ (Nulty, 2001) provided a structured framework that has been the basis for our study in students’ evaluation of effective teaching. The data collection procedure was based on a survey with a 5-point Likert scale and an open-ended question with comment box. The students in the contemporary educational system prefer interactive teaching strategies, suitable personal characteristics of teachers and a good teacher-student relationship .","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116326108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WORKING ON TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES OUT OF DOORS","authors":"Henrietta Torkos","doi":"10.24250/JPE/2/2017/HT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/2/2017/HT","url":null,"abstract":"This article has two important aspects of modern education in the spotlight. First, it discusses the need for the development of transversal competencies, as it is required from our modern society. Secondly, it gathers all the modern methods, in which this is possible in schools, mostly considering outdoor education a great way of putting it all into practice. It also gives practical suggestions on how to practically develop transversal competencies through outdoor education, and presents a brief research and its results on the changes that were brought to everyday education, regarding the development of transversal competencies on children aged 6 to 8 years old.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116144515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SIMULTANEOUS CLASSES, A PEDAGOGICAL ALTERNATIVE","authors":"Carmen Maria Chişiu","doi":"10.24250/JPE/2/2017/CMC2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/2/2017/CMC2","url":null,"abstract":"In the Romanian educational system still exists simultaneous classes in which, on the grounds of a small number of pupils on a level of study, in the same classroom under the guidance of one teacher, operates more classes. If the teacher can make teaching an art, this way of organizing learning can be an opportunity for students. In this paper we suggest a few ideas that may enhance the effectiveness of school learning, under simultaneous classes.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121766738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NEW PERSPECTIVES IN LEARNING ROMANIAN LANGUAGE IN SCHOOLS AND SECTIONS TAUGHT IN HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE","authors":"Mariana Norel","doi":"10.24250/JPE/2/2017/MN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/2/2017/MN","url":null,"abstract":"Since September 2017, the new curricula for the 5th grade are valid (Annex 2 of OMEN no. 3393/28.02.2017), based on the framework plan approved by OMEN 3590/05.04.2016. For Romanian language and literature subject, there are two curricula: Romanian language and literature, 5th to 8th grades, and Romanian language and literature for schools and sections taught in Hungarian language, allowing pupils to use alternative textbooks. The secondary school curriculum, as well as alternative textbooks in order to study Romanian language and literature in schools and sections taught in Hungarian language continue the ones for primary school. This article highlights the importance of studying the Romanian language as the official and day-by-day communication language, by the students having a different mother tongue, and the opportunity which is offered to these students by the textboooks, through applying the communicative-functional model and through the pragmatic perspective of language study.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123373423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING ON TEACHER TRAINING STUDIES PROGRAMS","authors":"D. Herlo","doi":"10.24250/JPE/2/2017/DH","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/2/2017/DH","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents some aspects of self-directed learning, another way of learning and another approach than commonly shown us the teacher-directed learning, that we try to implement into our license, postgraduate and master teacher training studies programs. In the first phase of our study we proposed to students to open their minds and souls to fill-in in a survey concerning how self-directed they consider themselves to be, and, in the second phase we described the facts which we have been done for empowering students into self-directed learning.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121841302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE","authors":"Carmen Maria Chişiu","doi":"10.24250/JPE/2/2017/CMC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/2/2017/CMC","url":null,"abstract":"Religious education gives sap to the desire, to ability and responsibility of self-improvement. The educated man in a religious way or the emotionally intelligent man finds his way to complete his person as well emotionally, intellectually, morally, aestheticaly, physically and professionally. It is not easy but it’s worth the effort to help those towards whom we have the responsibility to educate, to pave their way for understanding and make peace with themselves, with others and with Providence, no matter how, through Christian education, through religion classes or through an education according to the theory of emotional intelligence.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121281913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE PSYCHO-SOCIAL CONTEXT OF EVALUATION ACCORDING TO ACADEMIC PROFESSORS. CASE STUDY","authors":"Gabriel Albu","doi":"10.24250/JPE/2/2017/GA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/2/2017/GA","url":null,"abstract":"Lately, the timing and process of evaluation seem to have become very important for the dynamics and regulation of the education system and in determining the quality of its performance. In achieving pupils'/ students' quantitative and statistical performance, but also qualitative, more spiritual (less targeted by the administrators of the system and by researchers in formal education), a decisive role is played not only by the level of the results obtained in tests/ exams but also by the psychosocial atmosphere in which evaluative situations take place. The study captures and presents some of the options of a group of teachers from UPG Ploiesti regarding several dimensions of the psychosocial context of evaluation and draws attention to the fact that the evaluative act is not confined - as we tend to believe - only on the technical, quantitative, standardized aspects, but includes, on the one hand, the evaluator's vision of the state of the evaluated individual before, during and after the exam and, on the other hand, the attitude of the teacher-evaluator in view of creating an atmosphere conducive to the best performance of that student in the exam.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126876705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CREATIVITY, PERFORMANCE AND EMOTIONAL BALANCE","authors":"G. Kelemen","doi":"10.24250/JPE/2/2017/KG","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/2/2017/KG","url":null,"abstract":"Creativity is one of the cognitive skills required by performance in the 21 st century. In the current society which is fully technological and tends to automatize everything, no one can deny the importance of creativity as necessary and useful attribute of knowledge. However, there are different ways of approaching it due to its features that are like a magical aspect of thinking (Sparks, 2011, p. 3). [1] Studies have highlighted that there is mutual determination between creativity as specific, innovative and emotional intelligence. A person is considered creative if s/he can produce original, innovative, unique ideas or products. Creative thinking allows a person to explore different aspects of life in completely different ways than the common way of thinking. A manner of analysing the creative phenomenon is to observe creative personalities, to identify the cognitive characteristics that are different from the others such as creative strategies, cognitive styles, resolving strategies, overwhelming imagination, inspiration, intuition and other elements (Piirto, 2011). Rational mind is the one that confers understanding and reflection along with emotional experiences that put their mark on human personality and thinking. Creativity is a skill that can be developed in schools, if it is identified and proper strategies are used such as engaging the individual in his/her own development with all the abilities along with presenting all opportunities for social evolution.(Glassner & Schwarz, 2007) [2] . [1] S. Sparks, Science looks at how to inspire creativity. Education Week, 201131(14), 1–16, p.3 [1]A., Glassner, & B. B. Schwarz, What stands and develops between creative and critical thinking? Argumentation? Thinking Skills and Creativity, 20072, 10–18.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125957696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED PARENTAL SUPPORT AND ONLINE BULLYING","authors":"Dana Balas-Timar, Sonia Ignat, Edgar Demeter","doi":"10.24250/JPE/2/2017/DBT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/2/2017/DBT","url":null,"abstract":"Bullying is defined as a hostile / exclusionary and deceptive behavior of humiliation. A child is labeled, teased, mocked in his circle of knowledge or by colleagues calling him in a certain way (referring to physical appearance or medical / family issues). The phenomenon of \"bullying\" is much more common than we would like to believe. It happens on school corridors, in the yard, on the streets and, unfortunately, sometimes in classrooms. Undetected on time, bullying may leave traumas and irreversible repercussions on the child's adaptability to society. Our research team has developed the project Keeping youth safe from Cyberbullying, ID 2016-3-TR01-KA205-036619 under Erasmus+, that aims to deeper understand the dynamics of cyberbullying in online environments among youth, to develop educational resources for professionals involved in youth activities in order to prevent these type behaviors, to develop youth skills to protect themselves from cyberbullying and to disseminate findings among educational professionals. One of our first interests was in analyzing the relationship between online bullying incidents and perceived parental support, due to the fact that psychological protection from any kind of harassment starts from home. Our conclusion is that there is a dynamic relationship between online bullying incidents and perceived parental support. Qualitative results and bulling prevention strategies are discussed.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123092953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}