review of: ------------------ Gabriela Horoşanu. 2014. NATO-EU: A Smarter Collaboration, Bucharest, Tritonic Publishing House, 194 pages, ISBN: 978-606-8571-41-6.
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Keywords: acting;Doina Deleanu; acting school from Iaisi
This year we celebrate 155 years of artistic education at the University of Arts in Iaşi and, on this occasion, my thoughts went up to our former graduates. After being disbanded in the years of communism, the Theatre Faculty was reopened in 1990, and the first class graduated from the academic desks in 1994.
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Keywords: war; absurd; young; dada
The Dadaist program of vanguard involved the denial of any traditional art system more violent but more free than ever. This freedom of creation is having like source the reinvention of poetic language, reducing to a " tabula rasa " any lyricism to then be able to rise to a new poetry built on new values.
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Keywords: cultural competence; intercultural competence; stereotype; fast and slow thinking
Living in a multicultural world demands intercultural abilities. The present article aims to analyse how students of Neophilological Faculties should be taught to be able to act as cultural mediators in the future. We also present the results of an inquiry which aimed to show if the knowledge influences the first impression opinions.
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Keywords: three sisters; sleeping; gathering flowers; This World; the Other-Side world
Since ancient times, in all the civilisations, the antagonistic duality fear versus fascination, which refers to the aspect of the Other-Side World, has induced and maintained numerous funerary rites and rituals in the collective mentality. The fear of death was defeated by the belief in the continuation of life beyond death. In the funerary song Three sisters gathering flowers that accompanies the funerary rites, the passing towards the Other World is presented as a wandering (or falling asleep) while gathering flowers. By analysing the significations of the symbols that are found in this song, we intended to bring back to life the image of the cosmic sacredness, characteristic to the Romanian peasant.
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Keywords: rural area; disadvantaged area; depopulation; aging;
In thispaper we aim to highlight some of the features that are found in rural area in the ApuseniMountains. Apuseni Mountains was declared as "disadvantaged area" due to the closure ofmines, employing most people in the area. Effects consist of depopulation and aging. Urgentaction is needed from the government, to save from extinction rural communitiesin the area.
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Keywords: book review; Maria Sachiko Cecire; Hannah Field; Kavita Mudan Finn; Malini Roy; Space and Place in Children's Literature;
Maria Sachiko Cecire, Hannah Field, Kavita Mudan Finn and Malini Roy, eds. 2015. Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited. 250 pp. ISBN 978-1-4724-2054-1
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Keywords: Pierre Louis Blanc; architecture; Swiss architect; monumental works
The author refers to the book Louis Pierre Blanc written by Oana Marinache and Cristian Gache, published by History of Art Publishing House in Bucharest in 2014 in Unforgettable Architects collection. Pierre Louis Blanc was born on December 31, 1860, in Geneva. He attended classes at Zürich Polytechnic. Swiss architect comes in Bucharest in early 1884 advised by Ion Mincu, his Romanian colleague. Among the main projects undertaken by architect Louis Pierre Blanc can be listed as follows: Botanical Institute in Bucharest; University of Iaşi; Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest etc.
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Keywords: environment; sustainable development; highter education; educational needs;
Seriousness of the problems focused to the protection and quality of the environment at the national and international levels impose the need for urgent changes in educational systems of many countries. Modern educational theory, practice and recommendations of international organizations conduct for introdcing basic aspects regarding to sustainable development and environment protection. In order to understand the need and the importance of environmental factors and laws in professional domain, the connection between environmental and professional aspects of student's future professional activities, it is necessary to understand the environmental protection as the necessary content and principle of educational work at the university. In the paper, the educational needs of different groups of the academic population are sinthetized, in fact, the program's educational orientation for the environmental protection in higher education is shown.
More...Rareori în ultima vreme s-a întâmplat, cel puţin în cazul manifestărilor internaţionale de arheologie organizate în Romania, ca iniţiativa generosă a organizatorilor să fie însoţită şi de o expoziţie cu un catalog tematic pe măsură, beneficiind de nişte condiţii grafice de excepţie. Manifestarea expoziţională, regrupând monumente de excepţională valoare din muzeele din Bucureşti, Alba Iulia şi Constanţa, dar şi frumosul catalog ce le însoţeşte în memoria celor ce au avut prilejul să le poată vedea, au fost posibile datorită strădaniilor neobosite ale Cristinei Alexandrescu, organizatoarea celui de al XlII-lea Colocviu internaţional de artă romană provincială, desfăşurat între 27 mai şi 3 iunie 2013. Catalogul editat cu prilejul colocviului amintit are câteva merite incontestabile ce nu pot fi trecute cu vederea chiar şi de un acerb cârcotaş cum s-a arătat iniţial, pe nedrept, chiar autorul acestor rânduri...
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Keywords: optional;religion;liturgical practice;spiritual life;
The religion lesson in school aim to near human to God and helps to put into practice christianteachings. However, one hour per week is not enough through going study and skills, but the optional is a way to remedy the situation. The optional is a precious instrument that opens new oportunities in developing pupils both athome and abroad. Also in this paper we’ll describe the process of thedeveloping of the religious skills and the liturgical practice. Therefore, we consider welcome the proposing of an optional for the 4th grade and observing its impact. We based our work by the adapted use of the learning content to the children particularities will produce positive changes in their affective and volitional behaviour and cognitive process. Our results were obtained using the followings methods: direct observation, investigation, school documents and analysing the pupils activity products and tests. With these means and methods, we could see the progress registered by the pupils in three fields: cognitive, affective and volitive.
More...In 2012 Jean-Jacques Weber and Kristine Horner published a comprehensive and comprehensible textbook that deals with the ever changing and evolving topic of multilingualism. The book is meant for both students and researchers in the field and it encourages its readers to question many of the present beliefs related to languages and multilingualism. Throughout the six parts of the textbook the authors cover topics such as language variation, types of multilingualism, multilingual education, and public discourses on multilingualism.
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