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QUALITY ASSURANCE IN EUROPEAN PROJECT SEMESTER AT UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST

Author(s): Anca Greculescu,Liliana-Luminița Todorescu / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 33/2023

The aim of the current study is to disseminate best practices likely to ensure the quality of the didactic process within the European Project Semester (EPS) conducted at University Politehnica of Bucharest. Students’ feedback plays a crucial role in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of this instructional program addressed to engineering students of various cultural, linguistic and professional backgrounds, Feedback questionnaires were administered to 18 Romanian and foreign students studying an EPS between 2022-2023 and the research outcomes have illustrated their satisfaction with this professional and cultural experience, the syllabus and the projects proposed as well as with their teachers and tutors. Hence, students’ opinions will help develop a set of future educational actions likely to promote, manage and permanently improve the quality of this higher educational program and its impact on the training of engineering students.

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DIMENSION OF PUPILS' AFFECTIVITY - PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE MODELS

Author(s): Mariana Batog / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 33/2023

This article presents some models of psychological assistance in relation to the emotionality of students in the general education system. In this context, models of the organization of school Psychological Service and methodological conceptual models aimed at psychological assistance in the educational system are analyzed and revealed. Thus, models of psychological diagnostics and intervention to reduce anxiety in adolescents are reflected; a model of psychological intervention in adolescents with post-traumatic stress; psycho-pedagogical program for the formation of a sense of gratitude to parents in adolescents; program of psychological intervention aimed at the development of empathy in adolescence; psycho-pedagogical models of the development of the emotional-volitional sphere in children with mental retardation; a model of psychological intervention in the reduction of negative emotions in adolescents, a program for the development of self-control and emotional stability in preadolescents with deviant behavior, diagnostic tools and psychological intervention regarding the affectivity of students in educational institutions are described.

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USING YOUTUBE IN THE ESP CLASS – WHY, WHEN, HOW IN POST-PANDEMIC TIMES

Author(s): Alexandra Georgiana Sălcianu / Language(s): English Issue: 33/2023

At this stage in the pedagogy of foreign languages, and in particular in that of ESP in the technical higher education in Romania, the experience taught by the fully online mode of instruction specific to the Covid19 pandemic has to be exploited with a view to enlarging the possibilities of using ITC in the instructional process. Therefore, the aim of this study is to propose an analysis of the ways one particularly utile tool in the e-learning kit available at present, namely YouTube, can be of use in order to maximize the practical course efficiency. As shown by the reviewed research in the field, YouTube is indeed a versatile instrument, which can be used in all possible combinations of working modes, from the traditional face-to-face, through that exclusively online, and up to various mixed amounts/weightings of the former two patterns that are currently utilized worldwide. Tentative answers to the questions referring to why – rationale, when – level and context specific features, as well as how – principles underlying its use are sought for, with a proposed approach being advanced, whose basic traits are suggested. They should be understood in complementarity, and accordingly adapted to each educational setting particularities in order to reach their full potential.

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THE EDUCATIONAL NETWORK IN AN OPPIDUM IN SZEKLERLAND FROM THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD TO THE MIDDLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Author(s): Sipos István / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 33/2023

A town is only as developed as its educational institutions. Several educational institutions have been established in Cristuru Secuiesc since the Middle Ages. The first schools were founded and supported by churches. Catholic, Reformed and Unitarian church schools were founded from the first half of the 17th century onwards, but there are historians who state that these schools have already been established in Cristur in earlier centuries, just like in other Transylvanian towns. However, from the second half of the 19th century, other educational establishments appeared alongside these schools: a Girls' Normal School and even a Pedagogical High School. This paper aims to present the brief history of these educational institutions from the mid-20th century.

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ASPECTS CONCERNING TEACHING AND LEARNING OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

Author(s): Maria-Mihaela Avram / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 33/2023

One of the greatest risks to our cultural heritage is ignorance. People who do not recognize a valuable cultural item, may destroy it, or let others do it. Teaching about cultural heritage should happen not only in schools, but also in churches, through public meetings, in every university, in summer school camps, etc. Those who destroy icons and cultural objects for being old, and replace them with new, modern ones, especially in rural areas, are unaware of the value of the objects they have. Television programs should include documentaries on cultural heritage, museums should print fliers with valuable traditional pieces, in a constant effort of diminishing the destruction of cultural heritage objects. Police Departments may contribute alongside archaeologists and teachers to inform students through periodical visits to schools, and lectures about illegal traffic of cultural heritage items. Workshops, visits to archaeological sites and archives, to local craftsmen, may also help them understand the importance of a nation's historic and cultural heritage. This paper tries to emphasize the importance of cultural heritage knowledge, the importance of fight against heritage crime, and the importance of education. Heritage should be part of school curriculum or extracurricular activities in order to teach students how to recognize valuable cultural objects that represent their national identity. For ethnic minorities it is very important to preserve their identity through promoting their cultural creativity and innovation. By learning and understanding different cultures can help avoid misjudging others and improve your knowledge. All cultures are equally worthy of respect. That is why we should fight to accept and protect not just our cultural heritage, but the cultural heritage of others, too.

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CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES IN THE PEDAGOGY OF SIMION MEHEDINȚI

Author(s): Ioan Puiu / Language(s): English Issue: 33/2023

The Holy Fathers, desiring that young people enjoy a joyful life on this earth, but also be heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, paid particular attention to their formation. Through their writings dedicated to young people, the Holy Fathers have shown that they are called to follow the life of Christ, the greatest Teacher of all time, and that an education which helps the young person to live here beautifully but also to acquire Eternity with God is a true art. St. John Chrysostom understood by the art of education that permanent concern for the salvation of the soul entrusted to him for formation, the purpose of education being the preparation for eternal life. The Holy Fathers emphasize that education must help the young person to know and cultivate in his life the Christian virtues, and this is greatly strengthened by the model provided by those who form the young person. The great Romanian teacher and scholar of the last century, Simion Mehedinți, born into a genuine Christian family and having relatives who were priests, understood the particularly important role that knowledge and living the faith plays in the full formation of the young person. Through his writings, conferences and all his teaching activity, Mehedinți worked for the moral edification of young people, being fully convinced that the foundation of the young person's formation must be the Holy Gospel which "like a spring of clean water, which quenches thirst, is a fountain of wisdom for young and old, for the learned as well as the unlearned, for the rich as well as the poor .... and he who hears her words and weighs them carefully cannot fail to become wiser, better and happier". This study aims to present some of the Christian principles on the formation of young people drawn from the works of Simion Mehedinți and to answer questions such as: What is the role of the family in the formation of young people? What are the duties of a true educator? What Christian principles are found in Simion Mehedinți's work?

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EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH THROUGH CATECHESIS. MOTIVATION AND METHODS

Author(s): Alexandru Baciu / Language(s): English Issue: 33/2023

Increasingly, we see that the contemporary man, in order to define his role in society, seeks to progress as much as possible professionally, seeks to keep up with the "fashion" in terms of technology, is assimilated by the commercial side of society. All these factors lead to his dissipation. The spiritual side is often neglected or treated with indifference. This way of life is especially aimed at young people, those who are just starting out, who can easily be moulded to the demands of the times. With all these temptations from the outside, the Church comes with a superior proposal, urging young people to a different knowledge, a perfect one, the experience life in God. The Saviour Jesus Christ says: "This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent" (John 17:3). We often hear in society, especially in the media, the idea that the Church, as an institution with social concerns, (unfortunately consumer society cannot perceive it as a divine-human reality) is unable to communicate with the young people within it. This paper aims to establish some frameworks to demonstrate that the Church is concerned with the spiritual and even intellectual formation of young people through catechesis. From its experience of more than 2000 years since the "moment of Pentecost", the Church has always known how to listen, to guide, to teach, to correct mistakes, to offer people what no other human institution has offered, a different kind of existence. A superior existence in Christ.

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School Leadership

Author(s): Phil Budgell / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2023

In this paper, the principle of subsidiarity – that agency and choice should be delegated to the local level – is introduced. In education, it is proposed that: – far greater responsibility should be delegated to School Leadership Teams; and that; – successful Leadership in education requires a balance of principle (the moral basis of the school), purpose (the core business of the school) and people (social relationships in the school). A clear distinction is then drawn between leadership (complexity), management (clarity) and administration (consistency). This is followed by a discussion on distributed leadership, the idea that the leadership role is not confined to the Senior Leadership Team; but should, for example, involve subject leaders. Finally, the idea of Governance is introduced: a process whereby a legally constituted team of local partners support and challenge the School Leadership Team; helping them to fulfil their responsibility for the leadership and management of the school.

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RAZVOJ MEKTEPSKE POUKE U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI DO DRUGOG SVJETSKOG RATA

Author(s): Elvir Duranović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 93/2023

The author here presents a study of the development of the maktab class since its establishment during the Ottoman rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina until the end of the Second World War. During the Ottoman period, the local maktab class education was no different from the maktab education anywhere else in the empire. Its primary goal was to teach children reading the Qur’an and basic religious studies. The first real reform of maktab education took place by the end of the 19th century with the foundation of maktabi-ibādiyyah – reformed maktab, first in main cities and later in most places in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author here presents the documents on the bases of which the first maktabi- ibādiyyah were established and then he analyses all the reforms of the Teaching Plan and Program therein until these institutions were closed down in 1931. He particularly focuses here on the First Islamic educational survey which initiated the reform of the maktab class in elementary sibjan maktab and in reformed maktabi- ibadiyyah. These were the two types of maktab classes that existed until 1931 when a unitary Teaching Plan and program for maktab classes was adopted for all the maktabs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This Teaching Plan and Program, with minor amendments, remained effective until the end of the Second World War.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS (SENSORY IMPAIRMENTS)

Author(s): Adriana Ciobanu,Mariana Pîrvan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 34/2023

Blocked by their own emotions, children with special educational needs have great difficulties in adapting to school, the changing environment of the child with special educational needs influences the somatic and psychological state of the child, children cannot know the full diversity of human experience, thus many social and personal resources remain inaccessible to them. The quality of our lives depends on how we learn to work with emotions. Emotional intelligence is an invaluable tool in the educational process that also affects the formation of higher mental functions, and negative emotional states, chronic dissatisfaction, lead to the adoption of a passive or aggressive communication style thus making it more difficult for them to adapt in mainstream schools but also, lowering school performance. Quality of life for young schoolchildren with ESC/sensory disabilities would mean: necessary psycho-pedagogical assistance (tutoring, remedial education, homework support); therapeutic interventions (individual and group); psychological counselling (mediation).

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HOW TO CELEBRATE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE ROMANIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM – SEVERAL STRATEGIES

Author(s): Silvana Diana Stoica / Language(s): English Issue: 34/2023

In my paper I will focus on several strategies for ensuring diversity during the classes of Romanian as a Foreign Language. The groups are composed of twenty students each and a team of other four teachers work intensively (five days a week/ six hours a day/ two semesters) and devise lessons so to cover general Romanian as well as Romanian for Specific Purposes. Students come from all over the world and their interests are extremely varied. At the end of the two semesters, they follow their BSc/MA/doctoral programs.

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ROLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN LEARNING ROMANIAN AS A SECOND LANGUAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Author(s): Ana Cristina Lemnaru / Language(s): English Issue: 34/2023

Learning a less used foreign language as a second language has become increasingly important in today’s globalized world. Romanian as an L2, in particular, has gained popularity in recent years as the number of international students who choose Romania to continue their bachelor, master and PhD studies has significantly increased. As the demand for effective language learning methods grows, so does the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into language education. Our article explores the benefits and challenges of using AI to learn Romanian as a second language (L2) for international students and delves into the benefits and challenges of integrating AI into learning Romanian as a less used foreign language.

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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY SUBJECTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN INTERWAR BESSARABIA (1918-1928)

Author(s): Ana Onofrei / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 34/2023

In interwar Bessarabia, history and geography played a considerable role in the creation of national sentiment. In all regions of Romania, these subjects began to be taught in schools starting with the 1918-1919 school year. In all secondary schools, the History of the Romanians was introduced instead of the History of Russia and the Geography of the Romanian Countries, instead of the geography of the homeland. National history was taught not only to students, but also to Bessarabian teachers, who wanted to serve in the villages of the region. These disciplines did not aim at the transmission of information, but at the formation of character and love of country. During the school inspections, the inspectors confirmed the fact that history and geography were well rooted in the consciousness of students and teachers, in other cases, they noticed their impassiveness or ignorance in the development of these Romanian objects.

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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE EDUCATIONAL ACT

Author(s): Miluța Ursu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 34/2023

Emotional intelligence represents the ability to identify, evaluate and control one's own emotions as well as those of the people around. This type of intelligence resides in the ability to know and understand yourself and to know and understand others. Emotional intelligence is related to concepts such as love, empathy, spirituality, and is not related to the intelligence quotient that we all know - IQ." (3, p. 5) In a single phrase, emotional intelligence is the ability to identify, understand and manage moods and feelings - both our own and those of others.

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Placing students’emotions at the heart of the learning process, a challenge for teachers

Author(s): Daniela Scorțan / Language(s): English Issue: 76/2022

School is the place where emotions can constitute an obstacle to learning or facilitate it. Feelings of insecurity and even fear are often the cause of failure. It is then a question of trying to control parasite emotions in order to promote a meaningful and more serene learning. This article focuses on students’emotions as processes which, given their cerebral implementations in relation to the systems involved in motivation, attention and memory are at the heart of learning process. Researches suggest that emotional skills are beneficial to both well-being and academic performance. Emotions support attention, working memory, encoding, memory consolidation or processes related to executive control (inhibition). Those cognitive processes are also necessary for academic learning. Emotions therefore accompany the students within the classroom, and may interfere with learning or consolidate it. Research on emotions, their cerebral bases and functions, invite us to question the idea according to which emotions hinder school learning; on the contrary, even if emotions can indeed sometimes affect learning, experimental results suggest that they often facilitate cognitive processes such as attention and memory, which are essential for learning. Moreover, the fact that emotions have an important role in the process of learning suggests that it is important for the student to be able to know, control and use them, in an academic context.

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Modalități de dezvoltare a abilităților de comunicare la elevii din familii vulnerabile

Author(s): Oana Preda / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2023

Within families affected by socio-economic and cultural disadvantage, proper communication situations are infrequent or likely to trigger negative emotional effects. Children growing up in such families are less involved in communicative activities with their parents and may be emotionally inhibited, thus causing mothers to complain about the youngsters’ passivity (Piff, Moskowitz, 2018). Researchers have put forward several methods for preparing parents in disadvantaged families to optimize verbal communication with their children as well as to improve parent-teacher communication. In order to manage the quality of communication in the case of families vulnerable due to socio-economic and cultural disadvantage, pre-school staff, teachers, speech therapists and school counselors should establish personalized programmes meant to develop the communicative abilities of both parents and children

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Добри практики, използвани в извънкласната дейност Училищни медии

Author(s): Maria Pavlova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

This paper aims to present good practices used in the lessons related to the implementation of extracurricular activities – “School media”. These practices are based on innovative approaches, working with digital tools and using hybrid learning. Through these methods, students' active participation in the club and in school life is encouraged, their digital competences and language skills are enhanced, and their career orientation is supported. Their communication skills are developed. During the classes, students gain experience that prepares them for the challenges of the modern information society.

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Ученическото самоуправление за развитие на училищната общност и формиране на ценности

Author(s): Margarita Ignatova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

The article focuses on the role of student self-government in the process of forming active citizenship, and education in the values of the 21st century at Thomas Jefferson Second English Language High School, Sofia. Good practices from the work of the Student Council at the school and from the initiatives they carry out as an element of the student self-government policy are shared. The article reviews the emergence of the idea of self-governance over the years and the transformation it has undergone in view of the turbulent historical changes, digitalization and the imposition of a new information environment in the world.

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Проблемно базираното обучение и проектно базираното обучение в STEM направлението

Author(s): Sevdalina Stoyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

The time and context in which today's students live and learn are complex and dynamic. Pedagogical methods and approaches that gave good results yesterday are insufficiently effective today. It is imperative to combine working models with innovative educational technologies based on the integral and constructivist approach, to upgrade and enrich pedagogical practice with educational methods, approaches and tools adequate to the requirements of the time. This article examines the role of project-based learning and problem-based learning in STEM subjects for the formation of the key competencies and soft skills necessary for successful personal, social and professional realization. The holding of a Science Fair in the Second English Language School is brought out as a good practice and its role is emphasized in increasing the motivation of students for achievements in the field of natural sciences, as well as for their professional orientation in this direction.

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Дигитализация на учебния процес с междупредметни връзки (математика, физика и информационни технологии) и изкуствен интелект

Author(s): Aneta Kineva,Gergana Deribanova,Sonya Kuncheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

In modern life, cross-curricular connections, which include mathematics, physics and information technology, play an important role in improving education and student preparation. Artificial intelligence technologies can be used to improve the educational process, to develop analytical thinking in students, and to apply their knowledge in real situations. The digitalization of the learning process and the use of information technology and artificial intelligence in connection with the interdisciplinary connections between mathematics, physics and information technology offer new opportunities for learning and development of students. This helps students improve not only technical skills, but also critical thinking, problem solving and creative thinking – all key competencies needed to successfully cope in today's world.

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