Keywords: media; business; socialnomics
Book review - Qualman, Eric. (2009) Socialnomics: how social media transforms the way we live and do business. John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey
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Keywords: Romanian exile; Paris; culture
Virgil Ierunca (1920-2006) is representing, as Monica Lovinescu and Sanda Stolojan are doing it, an important voice of Romanian Exile. Fragments of the daily notes of this man of culture (philosopher, reviewer, poet, and essayist) were integrated in the book Trecut-au anii… (The Years Was Passing...) from 2000. The tome is completed with some interviews from the period after December 1989 (postdecembrist Epoch), as with a corpus composed by articles and letter received by Ierunca from the part of some Romanian culture men, too. His notes touch the interval 1949-1951 and 1960. The pages recompose the atmosphere of the Romanian exile from Paris, sketching the truthful Chronicle of a hellish time. Personalities of the foreground of the Romanian culture from Diaspora – Mircea Eliade, Eugen Ionescu, Emil Cioran, Vintilă Horia, Paul Celan, Basil Munteanu and many others become the characters of a fascinating book.
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Keywords: The Sexton; Sorescu’s theatre; energetic personalism; spiritual evolution; “towered drama”; gnosticism; ontophany; eleutherology; absolute freedom
The energetic personalism is a philosophical and theological theory based on the idea that the “human being (person)” is the final form of updating the (divine) energy in its accomplished act, the human conscience perceiving the structural identity of the personality ( in the middle of which the ego starts in its multiple aspects ) with the universe. Built on the neo-platonic descent of persona, it has developed within the space of modernism as a philosophy of subjectivity in relation to the transcendent otherness and of self conscience employed in the existential adventure, with the purpose of self-salvation and of saving the lineage through creation. The personalism is an ecletic phenomenon recording different contributions in the field of philosophy, theology, anthropology, aesthetic, economic – Emannuel Mounier, Jacques Maritain, Denis de Rougemont, Alexandre Marc, Nikolai Berdiaev, Romano Guardini, Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Luigi Pareyson etc. An analytical theatre “towered drama” in which the fall into self corresponds to the apotheosis as introspection, the Sexton play, by Marin Sorescu is a part of the “trilogy of the lyric ego” the “trilogy of queries”, in which “the absolute is being searched by oneself” by solitary characters, on a triple paradigm that reveals the Man in his fundamental dimensions –homo cogitans, homo religiosus and homo aestheticus, in search of the solution of coming out from the absurd and the soteriological way. The idea of saving the soul by deification of the human spirit and by creation supposes knowledge, faith, creation, sacrifice -major thematic coordinates in a neo-modernist dramatic structure in which three different patterns conciliate: philosophy, religion and art. In its deep structure, the play combines gnosticism, Hegelian philosophy, Plato`s philosophy , personalism
More...Keywords: Personal Learning Networks; ICT for language teachers and language learners; quality assurance mechanisms for online learning resources
The aim of this article is to offer language teachers a series of tools and practical guidelines for improving their usage of the online environment. We will cover mainly two coordinates. Firstly, we will study the concept of Personal Learning Network (PLN). In this respect, we will present an example of how to create such a network, both from the perspective of the teachers (for their own learning) and also from the perspective of the learners (how a teacher can help the learner build a PLN). Secondly, we will focus on one of the greatest challenges for teachers and learners today: how to make the most of the online language resources available. If in the past the challenge was to find any resources on the internet, the challenge of our day is to select quality resources and to ensure that the learners have access to learning material that is relevant to their needs.
More...Keywords: Eminescu’s journalism, article, political terminology, internal policy, foreign policy, stylistic markers, argumentative strategies
Eminescu’s journalism is extremely varied, therefore it provides a rich research material with many possibilities of interpretation. An important part of his journalism is the political journalism which includes appropriate language that reflects on the one hand, the political situation of Romanian Countries in that period, on the other hand, Eminescu’s attitude on this situation. An analysis of Eminescu’s journalism from this perspective shows that he uses an appropriate language for the situation considered. One sees, first, the use of specialized terms in the politics at the time, terms that reflect the encounter between archaic (the name of old state functions for example) and neologisms (new functions appear and new institutions). Another feature of language that Eminescu appeals in his political articles is the fact that he uses terms which fit to the political terminology only in the context of the article where they appear. It is very important that the political language used by Eminescu adapts to the issues handled - internal policy or foreign policy - and it is closely associated with argumentative and persuasive strategies that the journalist appeals. Thus, for the articles of foreign policy, he uses a political language extremely rigorous, while for the internal policy items, the political language is often subject for the publicist’s irony and for the grotesque situations that he presents and he denounces. Also, many terms that Eminescu uses in his political articles are marked stylistic, functioning as stylistic marks - implicit or explicit - that outlines the stylistic profile of the journalist.
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Keywords: Romania; books; Tom Gallagher; EU membership; enlargement; 2007; reforms; European Commission; corruption; Council of Europe; Social Democratic Party; Traian Basescu; Romanian Communist Party; National-Liberal Prime Minister; Calin Popescu Tariceanu;
Tom Gallagher delivers a carefully documented – if one-sided – catalog of misrule, state capture, and deception by the EU-bound Romanian political elite. Romania and the European Union: How the Weak Vanquished the Strong, by Tom Gallagher. Manchester University Press, 2009.
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Keywords: Second language acquisition; motion event, narrative; verb and satellite languages
This preliminary study investigates the emergence of constructions of motion in Polish learners of Italian L2, based on a narrative task. The semantic-typological tendencies relative to expressions of motion are discussed, as well as implications for L2 acquisition. It appears that learners with different levels of competence tend to conform to the target language.
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Keywords: Eugenio Barba; knowledge; teaching; actor; director; energy; TIC.
Teaching in universities seems less and less a way to put different people in live contact with sharing specific knowledge. Activities usually take a technical shape of transmitting information, practices, a know how of a domain, area or expertise. Performance is often excluded. Often, you don’t need the presence of “actors”. But Theatre still keeps the track of a live and ancestral communication tool: the presence. Is this yet enough to cope with the technological milieu we’re living in? Eugenio Barba’s theatre might also be considered from this point of view, of a sense of teaching where director and actor confront themselves with the proliferation of artifacts of the TIC. Who is who in the process of teaching and sharing?
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Keywords: Leeds; congres internaţional; International Medieval Congres; istoria Sibiului; sesiune
More...In the present article we analyze one of the most important processes of a young person.s life, more exactly the transit to the active life and to adult life, in the European context. The transit from the educational period to the labor market has suffered important changes beginning with the 80s that had a great impact on the development of the vital fazes of the individuals. The delay of the family emancipation, of the marriage and of the creation of a family is the result of the new labor market model, which is too precarious and in many occasions, has been defined as flexible. The young people from the 60s and the 70s succeeded to insert themselves in the labor market rapidly and, having stable jobs, the young people from nowadays have to overcome a long transitional period during which their lives have a lot of different professional trajectories evolving into a more complex and uncertain process.
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Keywords: form; written; as a condition of validity; invalidity
Recently, with the amendments brought to the Labor Code by the Law no. 40/2011, the written form of the individual labor contract became a condition of validity (ad validitatem). The actual and imperative dispositions of art. 16 of the Labor Code establishes the written form of the individual labor contract as a condition of validity in the Romanian labor right. This form is imposed for any type of individual labor contract in as far as the text pointed does not operate any distinction. The non-observance of written form when concluding the individual labor contract is sanctioned with absolute invalidity of the convention, sanction that can be covered by the parties by the subsequent fulfillment of this condition. The parties have the possibility to determine the invalidity occurred, but to also establish its effect according to the law. In case the parties do not agree upon the invalidity of the contract, this invalidity can be determined by the decision of the competent court. The fact of determining, respectively the declaration of invalidity produces effect to the future only. Whereas the non-observance of written form affects the entire contract means a total invalidity, which determines the termination by law of the contract according to art. 56 paragraph 1 letter e of the Labor Code if not validated by the parties. Art. 57 paragraph 5 of the Labor Code does not regulate in detail the effects of invalidity, it points only that “the person who worked pursuant to an invalid individual labor contract has the right for remuneration according to the method of fulfilling the labor tasks”, thus it does not operate retroactively. The regulation of the individual labor contract in this manner attenuates the impact of this imperative requirement.
More...Keywords: Eugen Lovinescu; literature; literary criticism; communism; post-communism; revisals; ethic; aesthetic; modernism; traditionalism; orthodoxism; ethnicism; Cold War; mass media; public intellectual; propaganda.
If for Eugen Lovinescu the mutation theory of aesthetic values determined and triggered organically the process of revisals according to a natural necessity and cadence, regarding the most visible of post-communist revisals the movement, even if it pretends to be a natural one, related to the innate physiology of culture, is not quite convincing as a pure axiological approach entirely supported solely by the aesthetic principle, but is exercised from outside the cultural nature. Are they truly “revisals”? A difference in perception was acquired between the A difference in perception was acquired between the esthetic approach of the literary work in Lovinescu’s definition, that warrants the freedom of the cultural act and an ethical, moral, and political approach. Insidious, yet ever more aggressive the extra literary normative network tends to overwhelm, to secularize and to control the esthetic realm up to the point where the intrinsic value of the literary work becomes obsolete subordinated to ethical and finally political norms. From here to the idea of revisionism is but a step and that step was taken. It is certain that the interference between culture and ideology can generate distortion, can upset the intrinsic value of the literary work, the work risking to turn into a simple vessel of propaganda. The mass media political transformation of the cultural act became a global certainty.
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Keywords: biography; literary creation; detective story; short prose
My study wishes to be an answer to the question from the title. Is the prose of Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu a retranscription of the writer’s life, with all her obsessions, all her passions, all her desires and all her fears? In this study I will only analyse certain aspects of the short prose and of the detective stories in which there is an obvious link between biography and creation. The analysis will focus on the actual detective stories, the Melania Lupu series, the short prose Fat and stupid and Men are pigs. I will try to highlight to what extent the writer has projected herself in her characters.
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Keywords: Alexandru Călinescu; Instantanee cu final deschis;
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Keywords: project; cultural matrix; enrichment; heritage; identity; implementation;
The category that the project belongs to: Education for culture by means of school extracurricular activities and through community initiatives. Education by means of art and culture has a trans‑disciplinary character providing the students a new type of learning experience aimed at forming XXI century key competencies. Beyond any specific study discipline lies the complex reality of the world.We aspire to help students so as they are able to master this competency,by understanding and simultaneously developing their ethno‑cultural identity and, more than that, so as they succeed in identifying the Năsăud region specific attributes as part of the Central European cultural matrix. The project implies various activities which shall take place at „Solomon Haliţă” Theoretical High School and also in the local community, namely at several museums of the Năsăud area. The students are invited and guided, throughout their visiting of some of the NăsăudCounty museums, to take contact with the national cultural heritage and with the history of the Năsăud Border Regiment. The discovery activities pedagogically coordinated through project activities while students work in groups in order to fill in the documentary files conceived by the project team. The students will find out together which are the identical aspects and the main differences of each visited museum. By the implementation of this project in the community, by means of extracurricular activities, we create the opportunity for a considerable number of students, to be aware and to get a deep sense of respect for the cultural and for the historical values, to be involved in their promotion and in their conservation, to directly participate to the enrichment of the Romanian spiritual heritage, to discover and to be proud of their cultural identity.
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Keywords: Romania; education; policies;communism;
The paper analyses the educational policies in Romania for the period 1948–1989. The purpose is to examine the main features that defined the educational system during the communist period, thus providing the background for a better understanding of the strengths and the weaknesses of education during these years. The paper consists of five distinct sections: (i) legislative reforms; (ii) human, material and financial resources; (iii) access and participation; (iv) educational environment; (v) voice of the pupils and students. Whenever data are available, the paper uses a comparative perspective with other communist countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland), particularly regarding the access to and participation in education. Several achievements in the field of education are present in communist Romania: (i) the positive evolution of participation in education, particularly regarding elementary education; (ii) the campaign to eradicate illiteracy was successful, at least in terms of numbers; (iii) vocational education displayed spectacular increases in the communist period; (iv) the number of students enrolled in higher education increased significantly; (v) expansion of support forms to broaden participation, especially in the higher education system. Nevertheless, there are also a series of negative aspects, such as access and participation of particular groups to education – children with disabilities, children from placement centres, pupils, and students of “unhealthy social origin”. A selection of oral history fragments completes the picture about the educational environment.
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Keywords: Cassian Maria Spiridon;
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