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„Didactics: past, present and future perspectives" - 5th edition

17-18 May2019

Book of abstractsISSN 2668-1749ISSN-L 2668-1749

hosted by: “1 DECEMBRIE 1918” UNIVERSITY of ALBA IULIA

FACULTY OF LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCESDepartament for Teacher Tra ining

International Conference

„Didactics: past, present and future perspectives",

5th edition

Organized by:“1 DECEMBRIE 1918” UNIVERSITY of ALBA IULIA

UNIVERSITY "HOLY CROSS" in KIELCE, POLAND

“NICOLAE TESTEMIȚANU” STATE UNIVERSITY of MEDICINE AND PHARMACY of THE REPUBLIC of MOLDOVA

PENZA STATE UNIVERSITY, RUSSIA

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY of CLUJ NAPOCA

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Scientific Committee:

Olga María ALEGRE DE LA ROSA – “La Laguna” University of Tenerife, SpainWanda BARANOWSKA – University of Lodz, PolandMuşata BOCOŞ – “Babeş – Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaMarian BUKOWIEC – “Holy Cross” University in Kielce, PolandArgentina CHIRIAC – “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of MoldovaMarcela CIORTEA – “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaAnna ENGLERT-BATOR – University of Rzeszow, PolandMassimiliano FIORUCCI – Roma Tre University, ItalyTeresa GIZA – “Holy Cross” University in Kielce, PolandJan GUNCAGA – “Comenius” University in Bratislava, SlovakiaIulia HERMAN – “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaCornel IGNA – “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaÁgnes KLEIN – University of Pécs/”Illyés Gyula” Teacher Training College of Szekszárd, HungaryKrzysztof KONARZEWSKI – “Holy Cross” University in Kielce, PolandTatyana LAVRENOVA – Penza State University, RussiaMarina LYGINA – Penza State University, RussiaDaniel MARA – “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, RomaniaEdward MLECZKO – “Holy Cross” University in Kielce, PolandMercè MOREY LÓPEZ – University of the Balearic Islands, SpainLetiţia MUNTEAN – TRIF – “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaMariana NOREL – “Transilvania” University of Brașov, Romania Dorin OPRIŞ – “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaKatarzyna PALKA – “Holy Cross” University in Kielce, PolandRamona PETROVAN – “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaAnna PIETA-SZAWARA – University of Rzeszow, PolandIoan SCHEAU – “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaStela SPÎNU – “Dimitrie Cantemir” State University, Republic of

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Moldova / “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of MoldovaSilvia STRATULAT – “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of MoldovaLiana TĂUŞAN – Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaIoana TODOR – “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaTatiana TREBEȘ –  “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of MoldovaRoksana ULATOWSKA – Tischner European University in Krakow, PolandDumitru VALCAN – “Babeş – Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaVictoria VÎNTU –  “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of MoldovaAnna WANCZYK-WELC – University of Rzeszow, PolandAdam WINIARZ – “Holy Cross” University in Kielce, PolandKamil WODKA – “Holy Cross” University in Kielce, PolandTamara ZAPPATERRA – University of Florence, ItalyJanusz ZDEBSKI – “Holy Cross” University in Kielce, Poland

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Organizing Committee:

Iulia HERMAN - "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaCornel IGNA - "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaAdela JIDVEIAN - "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaDan IORDĂCHESCU - "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaAlina LOPATIUC – “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of MoldovaMihai NAGHIU – Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaRamona PETROVAN - "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, Romania Răzvan Gheorghe RUSU - "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaIoan SCHEAU - "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, RomaniaStela SPÎNU - "Dimitrie Cantemir" State University, Republic of Moldova Liana TĂUȘAN - Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaIoana TODOR - "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, Romania Vasile Emil URSU - "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, Romania

Edited by: Cornel Victor Igna

Official website of the conferencehttp://www.didactica-alba.org/

DisclaimerThe responsibility for opinions expressed, in articles, studies and other contributions in this publication rests solely with their authors.

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Contents

Keynote speakers .................................................................................. 7

Pre-conference workshops ..................................................................... 13

Oral presentations............................................................... ................... 15

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Keynote speakers

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Keynote speakers

THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF INTERCULTURAL CONFLICTSStela Spînu„Dimitrie Cantemir” State University, Republic of Moldova / “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova

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The process of globalization, which initially dominated only the economic sphere, subsequently led to profound socio-political and cultural transformations, influencing interethnic and inter-confessional relations in multicultural and multilingual environments. The tendencies of undermining minority cultures, cultural homogenization, changing the national value model become dominant. Conflicts of values and norms are more and more frequently encountered among representatives of different cultural backgrounds. In the context of the new socio-political and cultural realities, the need to raise awareness of the importance of communication at all levels of the education system, to highlight the major challenges faced by young people belonging to different cultural backgrounds and the acquisition of the most effective methods of solving communication conflicts is evident. Intercultural communication has a decisive role in situations of crisis or conflict. Correct/ inappropriate communication styles (Competing Style, Compromising Style, Accommodating Style, Integrating Style, Collaborator style, Avoiding Style) determine the failure or success of the conflict resolution. In order to get straightforward information about the effectiveness of these styles of communication among young people, we conducted an opinion poll, involving Romanian Bessarabian students, Indians (the country of origin - India) and Arabs (the country of origin - Israel) who are studying at “Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy and “Dimitrie Cantemir” State University. Analysing the dynamics of behavioural processes (Table 1), we point out that in conflict or crises situations, young people choose the Avoiding Style, which ultimately does not contribute to the escalation of tensions, but denotes the ethnocentrism of those

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interviewed, the lack of self-confidence and belief in the promoted values. The most appropriate style of communication would be the Collaborator style. It is obvious that only a dialogue on equal terms and the use of an assertive style of communication can serve to prevent and manage conflicts between representatives of different cultural backgrounds.

Keywords: Intercultural communication, communication styles, conflicts of values and norms.

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THE CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING APPROACH (CTL). A CRITICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING SCIENCE IN PRIMARY SCHOOLIoana Todor”1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

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The Contextual Teaching and Learning Approach (CTL) is a didactic strategy based on knowledge connections. Students have to link the academic content with their previously acquired knowledge and experiences - on the one hand, and with the real life situations they observe in the physical and social environment - on the other hand. Effective teaching implies understanding the student’s previous experiences and relating the concept or theory to the actual context of learning. Contextual teaching and learning is based on the following actions/processes: relating new concepts to previous knowledge and actual context, experiencing the content of learning, applying the newly acquired knowledge, cooperation with peers and transfer the newly acquired knowledge in new contexts. Concept representation and transfer should be taken into account in evaluation. The paper presents the rationale and principles of CTL. Potential implications/applications of CTL in teaching science in primary school are also explored.

Keywords: teaching, learning, primary school

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FROM DEVELOPMENTS IN THE THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF TRAINING TO GENUINE LEARNING EXPERIENCESLetiția Trif”1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

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Internationally and nationally representative studies present educational reforms, promote innovation, adaptation or reconsideration across all components of a learning system. In this respect, we exemplify the analysis of educational systems in various important states of all continents, such as Canada, Finland, Singapore, China, Australia, which identified the following common elements of educational success: commitment to equity - every child is important and all children can learn; The professionalism of the directors and teaching staff in schools - initial and continuous training is achieved at the highest standards; Orientation towards a global approach - alignment to international trends in student education; Motivation and involvement of pupils in learning - school is an attractive learning space, relationships between teachers and pupils are supported by mutual trust, respect, encouragement (V. Stewart, 2012). In the Romanian education system we emphasize two directions: the concern for a law of education, which intends to correct the dysfunctions of the Law No. 1-2011 and, on the other hand, improving the quality of education, through developments in theory and the methodology of training good practices in countries with top results in PISA; TIMSS etc., which promotes genuine learning experiences, reported to the European Union's educational standards.

Keywords: methodology; learning; education

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FIGHTING OCCUPATIONAL STRESS OF TEACHERSIulia Ramona Herman”1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba IuliaCamelia VancuThe house of teaching department - Sibiu

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This article analyzes using the recent literature, the causes and effects of occupational stress on teachers. In the paper we propose strategies for managing occupational stress, so that teachers can maintain their well-being and make their teaching more effective. Teacher's occupational stress has increased over the past decades due to changes in cultural norms and traditions in society. These changes have led to different expectations regarding the role of the teacher, both by limiting the measures that a teacher can take to discipline students, and by the additional pressure to organize motivating learning situations for students. Under current circumstances, teachers assume professional responsibilities related to designing and teaching didactic activities, monitoring students learning and performance, classroom management, supervising and counseling students and parents, planning and organizing extracurricular activities. All these duties can increase the stress experienced by teachers and require the adoption of control measures. Therefore, the paper recommends teachers some ways to reduce occupational stress, including: breathing exercises, progressive relaxation, refraiming, monitoring of your own thoughts, visual imaging and more.

Keywords: teaching, occupational stress, stress management, teachers well-being

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Pre-conferenceworkshops

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Pre-conference workshops

1. Pre-conference workshop - „Povestea experiment și valorificarea acesteia în activitatea didactică”, organized by teacher Mursa Liliana, Școala Gimnazială, “Avram Iancu” Abrud and teacher Mera Mariana, Grădinița cu Program Normal Gura Roșiei.

 

2. Pre-conference thematic workshop - „Călătorie în lumea ideilor” organized by teacher Suciu Veronica Grădinița cu program prelungit Nr. 12

3. Pre-conference workshop „Cadrul didactic - creator de experiențe de învățare” organized by counseling teacher Badale Maria Ioana

 

 

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Oral presentations

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EDUCATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ANALYTICAL PHYLOSOPHYArina AntociState Agrarian University from R. Moldova

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Modern analytical philosophers regard themselves as philosophical revolutionaries wiping the slate clean of earlier philosophies and laying the foundation for something entirely new: “a self critical, strictly scientific philosophy”. As far as we can see, this belief of the logical atomists and positivists like Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, Moritz Schlick and other adherents of the Vienna Circle has always been a flattering illusion. We can trace it back to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and reflections of an analytical character can be found in the works of nearly all the great philosophers. Again, Ayer and Bertrand Russell are of the view that; what has happened in modern philosophy is not the advent of something radically new, but the development and intensification of something which was always there (Russell, 1971).

Keywords: analytical philosophy, logical atomists, educations

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ORGANIZING A READING ACTIVITY. A FEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE DESIGN OF THE TEXTAdelina-Patricia Băilă, PhD studentBabeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters

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The design of a text or the selection as well as the preparation of it represents the first step in organising a reading activity and may represent a real challenge for the professor that teaches the Romanian as a Foreign Language. The succesfull achievement of the reading activity relies upon choosing the text. The chosen text can raise interest among the students or, on the contrary, it could aswell bore them, it can determine their satisfaction to understand and notice the progress of learning the language or it could generate the frustration of understanding very little. Therefore, in this article we aim to make a few observations regarding the purpose of the realization of the reading activity (learning, rating), the adjustment of the text at the students’ language level, the introduction of new words in the text, the introduction of new grammatical sturctures in the text, the cultural component of the text, the text’s message, the utilization of some audio-visual instruments.

Keywords: reading, the adjustment of the text at the students’ language level, new grammatical structures, new words, cultural component.

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Oral presentationsTHE FORMATION OF MORAL-CIVIC BEHAVIOR IN PRIMARY SCHOOLRoberta Andreea Bența„1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

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This paper aims to analyze the role that civic education plays in forming moral-civic values and principles. The present project was carried out within the scientific performance scholarship awarded by "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia. The paper consists of two parts: a theoretical part and a practical part involving a pedagogical experiment from the following hypothesis: the application of active-participative methods during civic education classes will lead to the acquisition by pupils of moral and civic knowledge. The objectives of the project consisted in forming moral-civic behaviors, and in familiarizing the 3rd garde pupils with terms related to moral-civic conduct. At the beginning of the pedagogical experiment we assessed the moral and civic knowledge of pupils in both groups by applying an initial test and thus establishing the relevance of the differences between the results. Afterwards, the interventions from the experimental class were held. In the final phase, it had a great importance determining the differences between the results of the groups at the end of the experiment and the ones at the beginning of it, in order to see if they had any statistical significance. After we evaluated both tests, we noticed significant progress in the final test from the experimental class, where the results were higher compared to those from the control class. In the initial testing, the maximum grade was obtained by 86% of the pupils from the control class, while in the experimental class, the maximum grade was obtained by 73% of the children. In the final test, 87% of the pupils from the control class achieved the maximum grade. From the experimental class, 92% of the pupils recorded the maximum grade. After comparing the results recorded in both tests, the project hypothesis was confirmed.

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Keywords: active-participative methods, moral-civic behaviors, principles, values

Oral presentationsTHE IMPORTANCE, THE OBJECTIVES AND THE FORMATIVE VALENCES OF THE ACTIVE / PARTICIPATORY METHODS / STRATEGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKINGNiculina Maria BonceaTiberiu Popoviciu" Informatics High School Cluj-Napoca

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In education there are transformations both in the setting of objectives at the level of perception of education, but also in its essence, but moreover it feels the need of approaching a fast strategy that, starting from the creation of the learning environment, can make the learning process more efficient, asking the teachers for a radical change in the way they approach the didactic activity.Approaching and applying active methods is a superior way of training because they require time, diversity of ideas, engagement in action, discovery of new values, didactic responsibility, trust in what was written, and personal ability to apply them to the process educational instruction, and presentation as fun games, learning and cooperation, not concentration, brings extra motivation in learning.Interactive / active-participatory methods and strategies provide us with pedagogical / professional experiences and satisfactions that we can share with our children and other partners in education, precisely in order to meet the moral objective and the educational mission that any teacher in general has - behaviors to the situations that arise to make us into children's models.To become a free, responsible person who can think, reflect, the little child must be educated in the spirit of the great values of human civilization, against violence and intolerance of all kinds, including thinking. Small-age education is considered the foundation of the individuality of each individual, so education must respond primarily to individual needs and strike a balance between them and the so-called "democratic" development of society.

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Keywords: active-participative methods, critical thinking

Oral presentationsPERSPECTIVE OF THE APPROACH - THE PROCESS OF EDUCATIONAL CHANGE IN PRESCHOOLGeorgeta BordeuKindergarten Long Day Care No. 11, Alba Iulia

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Worldwide currently dominant approach on children is relational and holistic. The child is viewed as a whole, his body, the mind, emotions and creativity, but also with his personal history as a social identity.  This development perspective - documented in numerous studies worldwide, is reflecting the regularities that are found in physical and psychosocial development during childhood. Research point out the correlation between the quality of child development and nutrition, care, education and hence the vulnerability of children during this formative period considered critical or sensitive.Development and learning in early years can be seen in the broader perspective of preparation for learning/life or in terms of preparation for school. The first perspective includes multiple aspects of development, including verbal and intellectual skills, knowledge, social skills, health and nutrition issues. This perspective allows us to make predictions about preparing children for adulthood specific activities: participation in family life, community life, in economic activities. To successfully cope with school experience, children need physical formats and motor skills, social and emotional skills, the right attitude towards learning, speech and language skills, cognitive skills.Kindergarten is an institution of education that supports the child to develop and socialize, while at the same time, offers the training of skills and abilities necessary to adapt school. Essentially, the educational activity in kindergarten must be guided by some basic guidelines concerning the activity of the teacher, how it interacts with

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children and their families, how they organize learning contexts and experiences and addressing children's play and learning.

Keywords: kindergarten, preschool educationOral presentations

LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING ROMANIAN LANGUAGE FOR FOREIGN STUDENTSAliona Busuioc„Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy

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Linguistic communication activities include learning activities based on individual or group research that determine the position and attitude of the foreign student in the process of teaching the Romanian language as a foreign language. In the process of teaching and learning the Romanian language for foreign medical students, several parts of specialized disciplines can be identified. These features, linguistic phenomena, thematic units, authentic texts in professional language, speech acts, bring together the specialized lexicon of different fields, forming an ensemble as an integral part of the training process.From the perspective of the functional-communicative approach to language learning, we focus on the foreign student who plays different roles in professional linguistic communication, expressing, producing, writing and receiving messages.Thus, establishing a correlation between the determinants of the specialized language and those of a linguistic nature are mutually influenced by the same language systems. The above-mentioned ones confirm that the constitutive elements, the defining terms in the specialized language condition and develop linguistic communication activities in the process of teaching and learning the Romanian language for the foreign students.

Keywords: linguistic communication, teaching, Romanian

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TEACHING STRATEGIES AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES – SOURCES AND WAYS OF THE PROCESS OF ASSIMILATION THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGEArgentina Chiriac„Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy

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Nowadays, we are living in a changing world, in an age of globalization, in which a new way of teaching / learning takes shape and in which there is an identity amplification, relyed on intercultural competences, on acceptance, appreciation, respect for the other people. In the world of generalized communication, where human behaviors are increasingly being analyzed through cultural terms (values, mentalities, meanings and attitudes).In the last decades a very important component of education is non-formal education. Non-formal education, according to the guidelines for extracurricular activities management, is the set of pedagogical actions designed and realized within an institutionalized extradidactic framework under the guidance of specialized cadres. This form of education complements formal education, to which it is complementary, providing learning, more implied, practical, interdisciplinary.Extracurricular activity as an educational phenomenon which presents a number of peculiarities and is a subject to specific pedagogical requirements. It allows the efficient use of free time, the development of the associative life, the development of the capacities to work in a group and to cooperate in solving complex tasks, developing the will and forming positive character traits.Of particular importance is the involvement of foreign students in extracurricular activities, so students can get to know the horizonts of Romanian culture not only theoretically, but also practical. Extracurricular activities integrate the curriculum and contribute to the discovery and development of students' skills in various artistic fields. The process of medical practical development can not be reduced only

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to the instructional-educational activities that takes place in the lessons. Other forms of activity such as: workshops and cenacles with different topics that contribute to deepening knowledge, discovering, developing and capitalizing on interests and passions, stimulate creativity, provide the framework for recognition of performance.

Keywords: teaching strategies, Romanian language

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MOTIVATION, MEMORY AND CREATIVITY IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESSNicoleta Ramona CiobanuUniversity of Oradea, Faculty of Socio-Human Sciences

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Starting from Socrates, "Gnothi seauton" (know yourself) has become an imperative of knowledge in general. And if in the time of the philosopher most people used to help oracles or fortune-tellers to find out their destiny, little by little people realized that destiny is in fact what they can, what they want and especially what do. Beginning very early, from the very first childhood, children are challenged or tried to give others, but also their ability to understand, solve some simpler or more complicated problems, some of which are of great importance for success in real life situations. That is why when we talk about the educational process we cannot omit motivation, memory and creativity as factors of school success and not only. The educational system requires a permanent adaptation effort and, moreover, an active and creative participation for which pupils have to develop their innate skills in a multilateral way. The educational process does not operate with precise units of measurement, as it is a complex set of contents, methods, skills, with which there is a relationship of interdependence. Is enough motivation to succeed? Is it enough for a child to have an efficient memory in the educational process? Or is a child enjoying overflowing creativity likely to be a worthy student? These issues are to be followed in our article, highlighting their role and weight in the educational-educational process.

Keywords: memory, creativity, motivation, educational process, skills

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ABOUT THE GREEK-LATIN MYTHOLOGICAL DICTIONARY BY THE CANON GAVRILĂ POPStudent Adrian-Claudiu CIORTEABabeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-NapocaAssociate Professor Marcela CIORTEA1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia

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Born in 1830 in Barei, Cluj county, a student to the Piarist school from Cluj and to the German school in Sibiu, and later to the Academies from Blaj and Wien, the canon Gavril Pop, the chancellor of the Cathedral Capitulum of Blaj, between 1889 and 1918 he engages in a fruitful philological activity according to the standards of his time: he translates Aesop’s Fables, the treaty On Old Age by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Horace’s Odes, fragments from Thomas a Kempis; he also compiles a Greek-Latin Mythological Dictionary (Dicționar mitologic. Continetoriu de diferite numiri de persone și lucruri din vechia mitologica greca și latina pentru usul școlar și privat, Tipografia Seminariului Archidiecesan, Blaș, 1901) in four parts and writes a volume on the Romanian Customs. Known, probably, to all the authors of mythological dictionaries in Romanian, the mythology dictionary of Blaj, in its initial form has not attracted the interest of any editor. The present paper develops a didactic theme regarding children᾿s literature and presents the mythology dictionary in the conception of Gavrilă Pop, published in Blaj, in 1901: new edition, by Adrian-Claudiu Ciortea and Marcela Ciortea, with a glossary by Adrian-Claudiu Ciortea and an introductory study by Marcela Ciortea.

Keywords: mythology, Blaj, Gavril Pop, dictionary, scholar.

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Oral presentationsINTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE TEACHING AT THE LEVEL OF THE PRIMARY CYCLE, A CHALLENGE FOR CONTEMPORARY PEDAGOGYMihaela – Roxana Cistian“Tiberiu Popoviciu” Informatics High School, Cluj-Napoca

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The instructive-educational process is based on three major components in a functional correlation. These are: teaching, learning and evaluation. According to the Pedagogy Dictionary, EDP, 1979, the term "teaching" corresponds to the activity of teaching others. Teaching is a component of the instructive-educational process that involves the development of a complex set of actions and behaviors designed to produce learning. Integrated teaching implies a creative, interdisciplinary, complex act that stimulates students to actively, emotionally engage in learning activities and later to assimilate information. Integrated teaching involves a thematic delivery that supports the concomitant development of multiple domains.Human knowledge, outlined in the pattern of today's society, is in a continuous process of change and enrichment, due to the new educational disciplines, added to the already existing ones, due to informational explosion that not only leads to the quantitative increase of knowledge but also to their essentialization and, implicitly, to their integration. Thus, the tendency to overcome the boundaries between disciplines and to opt for cognitive integrated fields instead of independent study disciplines has emerged. The most serious steps in integrated teaching have been made in pre-school and primary education. Specialty literature presents curricular integration as an innovative way of curricular design that involves synthesizing learning content and organizing it so that the student acquires a coherent and unitary picture of the real world. Integrated curriculum involves creating links between themes or competences. The themes and competences have a strong connection with the everyday life of students and they aim, directly or indirectly, to contribute to the formation of values and attitudes.

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Keywords: integrated knowledge, teaching, pedagogyOral presentations

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ITC IN DIDACTIC DISCOURSEGalina Ciubotaru Alina Lopatiuc Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Republic of Moldova

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In modern conditions, when humanity makes the transition to the information society, the ability to operate with information and independently organize cognitive activity becomes decisive. This task is especially acute for the teacher, who must organize the activities of the students. Great help in improving the effectiveness of education has a computer, it is a universal tool that makes it possible to work with almost all types of information existing in the modern world. The computer organically takes the place of a new universal technical means of training and development.Conducting a modern lesson is impossible without the use of a computer, both in the study and consolidation, and in controlling the quality of knowledge. Therefore, computer technologies allow creating an activity-based approach when studying educational material, significantly save time in the classroom, demonstrate to students neat, clear samples of task assignments, increase the level of visibility during the training, and introduce elements of fun. Activation of the use of information and telecommunication technologies in education leads to the creation of a fundamentally new information educational subject environment, which significantly affects the distribution of the roles of participants in the educational process.

Keywords: didactic speech, information technologies, modern lesson, knowledge, critical thinking.

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SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDHOOD AND CHILDREN’S ATTACHMENTAndreea-Maria CoroiuSecondary School ”Mihai Eminescu” Alba Iulia

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In my article, I choose to speak about children’s attachment because I’m teacher in a primary school from Romania, and often I can see how are they managing this thing.I have read John Bowlby’s studies which says that because of the separations mom and children, the attachment has a trouble to develop properly. He proposed the idea that the 12 month old infant has attachment behaviors made up of a series of instinctual components in the form of responses to the mother’s behavior with him.The attachment is the child’s tendency to seek proximity to caregivers and to feel safe in their presence.Since John Bowlby has developed the attachment theory, two general evaluation have been developed: one consisting in the observations and interviews and the other in self-reporting.The first one was used in the studies which were investigating the parents - child relationships. And the second one was mainly used in studies investigating attachment in school age.

Keywords: social development, childhood, attachment

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APPLICATION OF INTERACTIVE METHODS IN THE FORMATION OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO STUDENTSSvetlana CravcencoOlga Melnic Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Republic of Moldova

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This research is recommended for modern teachers and for students to develop the teaching activity, the intelectual work abilities with different techniques of intelectual work abilities with the interactive methods of teaching –learning-evaluation is a matter of prime importance, these methods being an up-to-date topic in this field.Interactivity involves learning through communication, collaboration, produces a confrontation of ideas, opinions and arguments, creates learning situations centered on the availability and cooperation of students, their direct and active involvement.Interactive methods contribute to the formation of communicative skills, give priority to development of the personality and the skills focused on action, research, experimentation, they encourage independet work, initiative, creativity and also developt the Interactive teaching and learning methods are an important support of education, presenting themselves as effective ways of facilitating the assimilation of cognitive knowledge, skills development - at the application level, cultivating attitudes and competences - at the integrating, creative level. Being a novelty in modern pedagogy, interactive methods, unlike traditional ones, shift the emphasis on the student, who becomes the subject responsible for the purchases and choices made.

Keywords: teaching activity, interactive methods, communication, skills, modern pedagogy.

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PERMANENT EDUCATION, WAY OF CONTINUOUS ADULT EDUCATION.Razvan Diaconu-Popovici University A. I. Cuza, Iasi, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Political Sciences

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The adaptation of educational typologies to the requirements of post-modern education and training systems represents a fundamental necessity in relation to the challenges developed by the information society technologies. Permanent education is an alternative to traditional formal education systems. Any adult interested in socioprofesional development or reprofilation under the conditions of contemporary social metamorphoses, will access alternative education programs such as coaching, training, mentoring or reconversion, thus responding to the increasingly intense challenges of the present.The present study analyzes the main directions of formation and professional development of the adult population in our country, the formal or non-formal educational typologies in which they participate, the motivations as well as the inconveniences. In the same way, the perspectives of adult population education in the context of the development of specialized innovative pedagogical modalities are analyzed.

Keywords: education, complementarity, adults, professions, vocation interests.

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THE WAYS AND ASPECTS REGARDING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE DIDACTIC COMMUNICATIONIna Driga Veronica Suman Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Republic of Moldova

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We intend to follow in our work the ways and aspects regarding the efficiency of the didactic communication.Communication, both didactic and social, remains an open question for research on the possibilities of achieving a full communication, a communication in which the loss of information should be minimal, and it is a satisfaction for both interlocutors.Didactic communication is not only an activity which sets the relationship between the teaching staff and the student to achieve common goals, it is also a psychosocial process of influencing, through specific languages, of the attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, motivational-affective and volitional components. That is why communicating effectively and expressively with others and with oneself implies: - to inform intelligently and to facilitate the understanding of the transmitted message; - develop students' thinking, affectivity, motivation, will and personality; - to notice attitudes and behavioral manifestations of those you communicate with; - and finally convince those you communicate with.By using intelligible and appropriate language based on expressive and convincing communication, the teacher will try to transfer the taught content in an attractive, nuanced way, using his entire methodical and logistic arsenal, overcoming the simple and boring monologue through an exposure elevated and argued that will change conformism in participation and activism.Thus, teachers have to learn both with students and even from them. In this way, the teacher and the students have to influence one another, the

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dialogue becoming livelier and more nuanced depending on the expectations of both terms of the relationship involved in didactic activity and not unilaterally.

Keywords: communication, attitudes, activity, methods, didactic activity.

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THE USE OF ICT WITHIN EXPERIMENTS OF GEOMETRICAL OPTICSDumitru GeorgescuColegiul Naţional „Mihai Viteazul” Turda

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Fundamental questions, with high heuristic value, as how? and why? can be easily asked within optics (how does the light propagate?; why does the light propagate?). Also, within the cognitive process which must be activated for students, the experiment has a meaningful ratio, having a key role in active learning. Being followers of the real experiment, not of the virtual one, we were concerned, however, by incorporating ICT within optical lessons, trying to exploit the advantages of digitalisation in data processing. Under the sequence of exploration-experimentation-data processing-interpretation, the last two sections allow the use of ICT with fine results. The EXCEL programme of the standard OFFICE package enables experimental data processing, also presenting the advantage of being practiced, practical, by all highschool students. The students were provoked to observe the images way of formation through a concave mirror, and through a convergent lens, respectively, within two distinctive experiments. Afterwards, they collected the experimental data necessary for the verification of the conjugated points formula, and for calculating the focal distances, respectively. The processing of the experimental data was made with the help of the EXCEL programme under the guidance of their teacher, the students tracing the graphs β = f(x1), β-1 = f(x1) şi β = f(x2) and they found the convergences using the equation of a line. We consider that such a manner of working brings the students closer to what the manner of working means within the experiments about the scientific research and they facilitate the metacognitive transfer.

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ASSESSMENT OF CREATIVITY CLIMATE AT SCHOOL AND LEVEL OF CREATIVE ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS TALENTED IN MATHTeresa Giza“Holy Cross” University in Kielce, Poland

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The subject of the article is relation between math abilities and assessment of creativity climate at school and level of creative attitudes. Main problem is included in questions about creativity meaning for expression and development of math skills. How gifted students perceive and assess climate for creativity at school (does it support creativity)? What is the level of creative attitudes of gifted students? Which factors differentiate above relations? Answers to these questions are significant for teachers who work with students talented in math. As per theoretical models, high achievements of gifted students are supported by creative talents (Renzulli, 1978). Empirical data not support this correlation enough. One of formulated thesis is that there is a conflict between high level of school achievements (abilities) and creativity (Freeman, 2012). Introduced are results of research of two groups of students: participants of math competition for middle schools (N=43) and students with highest school achievements in math (average marks and external exams results, N=62). Climate for educations means all psychosocial resources of school which supports students’ creativity. Creative attitude is an active cognitive, emotional, motivational activeness toward world with will to change it. As per the conducted research school support for creative gifted students is based on positive interpersonal relations limited situations with risk and ambiguity. Students talented in math have high general creative attitudes score. 

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GIFTED CHILDREN AND EDUCATIONCornel Igna”1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

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The subject of gifted children is actual and of interest. This is due to the multiple implications alleged by the specifics, needs, development and interaction presumed by these children with significantly above-average abilities. The specificity of gifted children is marked by diversity. There are a significant number of areas where special abilities can be found. In addition, giftedness can also be associated with other personal conditions, even by various deficits. Thus, the necessities of gifted children are often significantly customized leading to a wide variety. The care and development of gifted children is a challenge for both parents and the education system. For parents, the characteristics of child development, marked by particularities, discrepancies, atypical needs can lead to difficulties ranging across a wide range, from providing the needed resources to social isolation. Therefore being the parent of a gifted child implies responsibility and openness for the parent in identifying and supporting the development of the child, concurrently with a permanent opening to new information on this area. For the education system the challenges are also multiple. Firstly, gifted children require adequate didactic and auxiliary staff. Simultaneously with the preparation of educators, it is necessary to update and continuously adapt the didactic material according to the type and stages of the manifestation of the giftedness. Last but not least, giftedness may also require changes to the rules, programs or even legislation so that they can be valued as much as possible.

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DIMENSIUNILE ESENŢIALE ALE PROFESIONALIZĂRII CARIEREI DIDACTICEȘtefania IsacInstitute of Education Sciences, Republic of Moldova

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The article talks propose ways to ensure a European dimension of teacher training processes. We will focus on the following dimensions: professionalization involves description or developing professional identity generated by a structured set of knowledge and skills in a professional model (professional standards); professionalization requires corresponding effort to legitimize the teaching profession, regardless of curriculum that embraces understanding and selection, highlighting problems that can become pretexts or media for learning experiences, design contextual interactions of quality students are suggestive characteristics of a teacher who can inspire and motivate for learners to appreciate masterful work: "... it was great!"

Keywords: professionalizing teaching career, professionalization dimensions, professional model, legitimizing the teaching profession, professional standards, skills (standardized, non-standard), situational factors, the ideal social and educational channels of a professional, national training programs, secure attachment, lifelong learning, transformative potential of education.

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THE ROLE OF PERCEIVING STUDENTS' SELF-ESTEEM IN CHOOSING FUTURE PROFESSIONAL CAREERSAdela Jidveian”1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, DPPD

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A person’s perception plays a vital role in the choices they, as individuals, make. Self-esteem is an important measure into how and why people perceive certain things to be true. A student’s outlook on the labor force could change the outcome of their choices. This raises some questions, how does self-esteem affect the path of students postgraduation? While another may be, what other factors affect the choices students make after graduation? Decisions students make post-graduation can affect their options down the road. The research on a university students’ career path enhances society’s knowledge of why people are drawn to choose different paths after graduating. “Gaining insight into people’s perceptions of basic career options and their related preferences, as well as their similarities and differences, contributes to a better understanding of the emerging practical career landscape comprising both organizational and post-organizational careers at the same time” (Mayrhofer, Steyrer, Meyer & Strunk, 2005, p. 473).

Keywords: self-esteem, perception self-esteem, students' professional careers, postgraduation.

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Oral presentationsEDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATIONMaria Larisa JurcaKindergarten Long Day Care No.11, Alba Iulia

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Inclusive education refers to the lifting of all barriers to learning and securing all vulnerable children to exclusion and marginalization.The concept of school inclusion can be defined as acceptance by the educational institution for all children, regardless of gender, ethnicity and social, religion, nationality, race, language, physical integrity, intellect, dowry genetic, socio-economic situation of parents. Inclusive education means education for all support and care and attention for each. The globalization of economic, social and political life is becoming increasingly obviously. From this perspective there are seen increasing mobility of people everywhere, including the large number of migrants of different faiths and origins living and working in Europe.In our kindergarten we have children of different nationalities – Romanien, Turkish, Greek, Romani, so the inflence of their families in high. It is very important that the intercultural education to achieve with their support (parents), as partners, in order to target and said and as supporters of the educational process from kindergarten through participation in regular meetings.We must learn ways of living together in the multiplicity of cultures, to accept social interaction, to recognize, accept and appreciate differences.In fact, the purpose of this approach is facilitating the acquisition of skills for living together in today's plural society, promote better their understanding of cultures in modern societies, developing the capacity of communication between people from different cultures, exercise capacity of participation in social interaction and recognition of the common heritage of humanity.

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THE APPLICATION OF MODERN METHODS IN PUPILS’ ASSESSMENTVirginia Lesnic “George Călinescu” Theoretical High School fom Chișinău, Republic of Moldova

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The evaluation of the learning process. This perspective helps to improve, control and verify the learning process of the pupils or the activities of the student and the teacher to achieve an objective.The transition from a culture of modernity, from the perspective of which teachers "exercise more power than authority", to a postmodern culture whose values, principles, ideas are still in the process of coagulation, has already begun. A change in opinions, educational strategies and practices becomes a sine qua non condition for quality assurance in education.Focusing on the learner, on his / her needs, interests and aspirations, on his / her subjectivity, requires a reconsideration of the competencies required for the exercise of the teaching profession, and of its specific standards.Valorizing the students, applying the principles of pedagogy of differentiation and pedagogical constructivism, the educator must design his / her didactic strategy so that his / her formative intervention benefits each student and learning becomes a constructive process.The perception of the teacher on the student thus undergoes radical transformations: the image of the passive student of information, "prefabricated" knowledge is replaced by the image of the active student, motivated to practice authentic learning, to form specific skills of information processing, new knowledge, application in different contexts, etc.What was a fundamental objective of school education: the transmission, the knowledge, the accumulation of knowledge. Thus,

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students acquire solid skills, but also the confidence that they will prove operational and will serve them authenticly in various life contexts.The modern methods used at the class are: mosaic, aquarium technique or fishbowl, gallery tour, three-stage interview, etc.  The implementation of a quality management system in pre-university education calls for the need to organize an "interactive" learning environment to facilitate the participation of students in their own training process.

Keywords: evaluation, educational strategies, principles of education, skills, quality management.

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EMOTIONAL AND RETHORICAL ELEMENTS IN DIDACTIC DISCOURSEAlina LopatiucGalina CiubotaruNicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Republic of Moldova

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The didactic discourse is the transmission of information from one person to another for educational purposes. The didactic discourse it is more an oral, interactive speech. From Peirce's perspective, semiotics is the instrument of education, as a representation in terms of continuous action, process. To educate means to inform and to form. The education is reduced to the transmission of knowledge on the background of a "truncated semiosis" in which the recipient plays a passive role. A behaviorist (stimulus-response) relationship is established, schematized as follows: O (knowledge of the educator) → R (expression of this knowledge) → I (receiving the expression of knowledge). Effective education can not take place without the emotional involvement of both the teacher and the student.Rhetorical elements are summed up when teaching persuasion, which is a process of guiding people to adopt ideas, attitudes or actions (rational or less rational). Persuasion is based on discussion and "attractiveness of presentation" instead of using means of force. Thus, over the centuries, the most powerful of the calls to consciousness has been considered, although this opinion of persuasion is rarely mentioned in the power of emotion to influence the mind and the way knowledge is accumulated.

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SUPERVISING A STUDENT SELF-GOVERNMENT AS AN AREA OF DIDACTIC AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENTJoanna Łukasiewicz-WielebaMiłosz Wawrzyniec RomaniukMaria Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw, Poland

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Students' self-government is considered to be an educational method used in work with children and youth. Self-government activity shapes pro-social attitudes, teaches independence and empathy, uses the abilities possessed by students and is based on their interests. However, the effectiveness of this method depends on the person who is the supervisor of the student self-government. The presented text provides insights into the scope of possibilities and activities of the student self-government supervisor as well as the determinants of their effectiveness. Assessments of the supervisors of student self-governments activities were made by the school directors, students - representatives of the self-government and self-government supervisors of 16 Warsaw high schools.

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TO THE PROBLEM OF THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTION OF HIGH EDUCATIONMarina LyginaNatalia StenjukovaOlga GruzdovaPenza State University, Penza, Russia

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The article identifies the problems of the professional training of future teachers in modern conditions. The attention is drawn to the fact that the leading aim of the process of professional training of students must be formation of readiness for the existence of the professional activity, pedagogical skills are on agenda. They must be formed by future teachers in the process of the professional training.

Keywords: Professional training of students, pedagogical higher school, readiness for pedagogical activity, components of the professional pedagogical readiness, pedagogical skills.

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PERSEVERANCE IN SCHOOL TASKSAna-Maria MarușcaFlorica ȘandraUniversity of Oradea

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Previous research has highlighted the role of school perseverance as a non-cognitive factor in the success and school performance of students in different education cycles. The present study starts from Duckworth's research on the concept of strength of character and aims, on the one hand, to assess the level of character strength in third grade students and on the other to (N = 27) in order to develop perseverance and monitor the time spent at home. The working tool is the Inventory of the Power of Character Strength developed by Duckworth and his collaborators in 2016, containing ten elements, grouped into two subscales: perseverance and passions of students. According to the obtained results, significant statistical differences were obtained in the students included in the program, only in the passion subscale, with higher posttest mediums. Consequently, perseverance is a construction that requires a longer period of intervention to find a significant improvement. The results obtained allow the outlook of future research directions in which we propose and recommend to teachers to attach a high interest in the formation of perseverance in primary school pupils in classroom activities through the design of a school curriculum at the school's decision, so an optional learning during at least one school year.

Keywords: perseverance, passion, comparative analysis, students, primary school

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TEACHING METHODS USED IN ROMANIAN LANGUAGE FOR FOREIGN STUDENTSOlga MelnicSvetlana CravcencoNicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Republic of Moldova

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The article discusses some aspects of the educational process, the traditional and modern methods used in the teaching of Romanian language in groups of foreign students. Methods are important tools available to the teacher, whose knowledge and use depend on the efficiency of educational work. The aim of the study is to implement in the Romanian language and medical terminology various methods that would facilitate the effective learning of the Romanian language. The conclusion is that traditional methods coexist with modern, being effective in teaching Romanian language. The combination of these methods leads to an advanced educational approach, gives foreign students the opportunity to improve their knowledge and ability to speak a foreign language and to communicate with other people, to form and develop skills and abilities, but also their ability to use their knowledge in order to form and develop their personality.

Keywords: educational process, traditional and modern methods, teaching, Romanian as a foreign language.

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ELEMENTS OF EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES USED IN PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATIONMihaela MolodețKindergarten no. 11 Alba Iulia

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Maria Montessori, the founder of the educational method that bears her name, carried out an experiment by creating an environment that allowed children to choose themselves the materials that could meet their development needs in every sensitive period. By observing how children spontaneously act in this environment and by trying to create those objects that their activity require and which are supposed to be as appropriate as possible for the natural inclinations that children have towards a certain type of activity, the so-called Montessori Method was developed in response to the development psychology of children with special needs. By preparing a friendly, simple, full of captivating materials and tidy environment that liberates children’s energy for learning, child’s independence and concentration are boosted to the utmost extent. The order, the calm atmosphere, the freedom of choosing an activity that meets child’s inner needs and the guiding help provided by teachers or parents boost that deep concentration that leads to learning and thereby to reaching child’s true potential.Traditional preschool teachers can integrate elements of this educational method either into the conventional curriculum and into their free choice activities by organizing activities that focus on self-care and on taking care of child’s inner and outer environment, chores, grace and courtesy activities, activities that work on fine motor skills, sensorial activities and language activities, or into their free choice activities by providing the children with Montessori sensorial and practical materials and with the freedom of choosing any material they feel attracted to.

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GARDNER PRINCIPLES AND VALUES IN THE CURRICULUM FOR ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE V-VIII FORMSMihaela Andreea Murariu-Suciu Șt.O. Iosif High School, Rupea, Brașov

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The new valences of education in the 21st century can answer our natural question, our question as educators, to what extent the classical ideals of truth, beauty and good are recognizable in the national curriculum. Which is nowadays the place of ideological principles within a subject, how is it nowadays possible, in a mixed society with a dispersion of values and a manifest trend of non-valorization of consecrated works and authors, for the subjects of education to discover the truth, beauty truth individually and possibly collectively?!How can secondary school students be trained nowadays for lifelong learning, integrating in their learning experiences the principles of truth, beauty and good to achieve a harmonious valorization and development of their own personality?To what extent is the curriculum for Romanian Language and Literature for the 5th to 8th forms, approved by the Order of the Ministry of National Education no. 3393 / 28.02.2019, with its three components, a regulatory tool in the meaning of training key skills, such as communication in the mother tongue and cultural awareness and expression, reaching values such as truth, beauty and good, as debated by Howard Gardner?This article debates and tries to answer all these questions.

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ASSESSING THROUGH PUPPET THEATREFelicia Munteanu, School „Axente Sever” AiudDana Andro, School „Avram Iancu” Alba Iulia

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The present paper aims to be an example of good practice in didactic activity, aiming at the evaluation component of the instructive-educational process. Thus we present an alternative form of assessment, taking into account one of the particularities of young school age - the playful instinct. In this respect, we have made use of the puppet theater, knowing that in the communication process, the puppet can be the child's messenger, with a "voice" of its own, designed to take over from his/her emotions, easing the child's relationship with the teacher or with classmates.The subject in which we used this method is Romanian language and literature for the fourth grade and was designed to evaluate the ability to write a composition using literature knowledge (specific fairy-tale formulas) as well as Romanian language (writing by dictation, writing sentences according to syntactic-morphological schemes) or of creation (continuing a composition with a given beginning, finding a title).

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WAYS OF INTEGRATING THE GYPSY PRESCHOOLERS INTO COLLECTIVITYMelinda MuzsnaiNormal Programe Kindergarten nr. 3 – Copșa Mică

AbstractThe paper is structured on 3 main parts: 2 parts of theory about

the origin and history of gypsies, their traditions and customs as well; the third part is the scientific research on the analysis of the situation they confront with, regarding the integration of preescholars into collectivity. This is necessary at a young age in order to prevent their tendency of giving up school. The paper’s main goal is to bring up the gypsies’problems, but also a solution to those. To know a nation, we must first study its history, origins and traditions. This paper highlihts the origin of gypsies, their traditions and customs, presents the groups and the divisions of the ethnic group. The gypses are an ethnic group, who comes from Medieval India, spread in various geographic areas. An important reason to this spread is the existance of military conflicts. Alienated from India, they had to live their lives on the run, so their unstable identity became their life style. A nation is different from another due to its traditions, which define it. The gypsies, are a nation without a state. They survived over centuries by keeping their legacy, tradition and customs intact. They are the only nation who keep their since they were slaves. Their most important event is „The gypsie wedding”. Part Three refers to intercultural education, combating discrimination, among preschools their parents. Also in this chapter are presented methods, activities regarding the integration of Gipsy preschoolers.At the end of the day, we all have to understand that, after all, we are just simple human beings. Details like the colour of our skin, the language, birth place or habits, should not make any difference; what should make a difference is our humanity.

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THE FORMATIVE ROLE OF ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE DIGITAL TEXTBOOKSMariana NorelTransilvania University of Brașov, Romania

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The introduction of the first digital textbooks in the school year 2013-2014 marked an important step towards the transition to pre-university education towards a technologically advanced educational environment. The article advocates the capitalization of digital textbooks in the teaching of Romanian language and literature in primary and secondary education.

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THE SOCIAL MODEL IN SCHOOL AND PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTSIonuț Mihai OpreaUniversity of Oradea, Faculty of Socio-Human Sciences

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Frequently invoked, as obsessive as ever, the example, as a model of conduct - is one of the most important ways of family education. The social model has its force in the imitation phenomenon of children, who lack knowledge and experience, looking for models in the adults around them, whom they consider to be stronger, more knowledgeable, and more capable. In this way, "A word, a search, a gesture of ours - as the writer and the eminent teacher Al. Vlahuță remark in this order - enters as a ferment as a new seed in the child's field of observation For his life, for the future flora of his field of unimaginable fertility, nothing is indifferent, nothing unproductive. " How can we explain the educational power of such a family type? Family concern for the professional orientation of the child is as old as the world. Parents have always shown a real interest in the "future" of their children. The family remains an important role in the professional orientation of children, sometimes exercising the most powerful influence, although it is theoretically admitted that the school has the greatest role in choosing the profession. Professional orientation engages the existence of the child's individual and social tomorrow. The correspondence between his skills, his personality characteristics and the requirements of the field to which he is oriented is the sine qua non condition, both of his development through his profession, which gives him satisfaction, as well as of the efficient integration in the production field through which the society will serve which is part of it.

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A PAGE OF EDUCATION AND THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN ALBA IULIA Dorin Opriş ”1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, DPPD

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One of the areas that have experienced the changes in Romania since 1989 was education. Experimenting the democratic political regime, dropping birth rates, closing a large number of schools, legislative changes, numerous and often contradictory, taking over without a thorough critical analysis of the models proposed by different individuals or entities in Western Europe are the main reasons that have led to a decline constant quality of education in Romania. One of the few institutions that tried in Alba County to compensate for this decline was the Orthodox Church. This analysis starts from the national and international recognition of the religious and theological education at Alba Iulia, as well as the quality of the two theological schools raised here by the involvement of Archbishop Andrei Andreicut (1990-2011). There are also highlighted the ways in which these educational institutions have become some of excellence. Last but not least, the present paper identifies the models and contexts of selection and training of teachers and students so that these schools become elite.

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PREVENTING AND FIGHTING VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLMaria Orza„1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

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The phenomenon of violence in schools has grown considerably lately. This phenomenon is most likely to be due to the family environment where children are raised and educated. Often these children come from disorganized families. So parents do not share their childhood, do not pay enough attention to their children, and do not pay attention to issues that concern them.Families with behavioral problems influence young people in a way unfavorable to their development, such as drinking alcohol among members, violence by parents, and various quarrels that are constantly taking place. The enthusiasm among young people can also develop non-constructive and violent relationships among young school children.

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THE CHILDREN OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM ON PROCUST'S BED Constantin Cătălin Pascariu University of Oradea, Faculty of Socio-Human Sciences

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"School on mother's knee" as the Swiss pedagogue Heinrich Pestalozzi said, inspired its mark on the entire existence of the child. Wishing to form the child for life, the mother becomes his first educator, raising them with infinite love and patience, the foundation of all subsequent development. The complexity and variety of aspects of family-school relationships are decisive for the formation of the child's personality, in which both parents and teachers share so much hope. But when the child is unable to respond to the exaggerated demands that come from outside, it is inevitable that he may perceive them as aggressions that must be defended. In this case, the feeling of resistance becomes exaggerated or, on the contrary, the child closes in his own right, refusing to contact with the people around him, because instead of receiving from others what he needs, he chooses only with slander and persecution. The undifferentiated educational model is based on an ideal chosen by the parent or class teacher and totally inappropriate for the child's attributes. Without taking into account his interests and preferences, his skills and abilities, parents and teachers strive to form it according to their established canons. From the point of view of parents, it is a desire to achieve what they themselves could not accomplish, and from the teacher's point of view this is manifested by the desire to have Olympic students not to lower the class level. In this way they do not form it, but deform it.

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CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES IN THE ACADEMIC PEDAGOGY: THE TEACHING/LEARNING CENTRED ON THE STUDENT Ramona Stefana Petrovan University “1 Decembrie 1918” of Alba Iulia

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Starting from the contemporary research in the field of pedagogy, we are able to identify the main orientations in the contemporary academic pedagogy:- The student’s placement in the centre of the instructional-educational process in universities;- The change in the relation between the forming and informing aspects in the academic instruction, favouring the formation for the harmonious development of all the student’s personality aspects, due to the student’s statute of centre of the didactic process;- The promotion of the heuristic form of educating the students;- The highlight of the meta-cognitional dimension of the academic pedagogy, due to the fact that the academic education is based on the individual effort of each student to learn and create knowledge;- The democratisation of the academic instructional-educational activities, ensuring a better cooperation between the professor and the student;- The stimulation and the promotion of the students’ scientific research as modality to develop the students’ and future professionals’ epistemic culture by stimulating their participation to the scientific events (symposiums, conferences), their inclusion in research projects, and the initiation of micro-research projects; - The academic educational system must integrate and value the pedagogic valences of the New Information and Communication Technology, which, through interactivity, multisensory stimulation and spatial-temporal flexibility, present special didactic qualities.

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M. Knowles shows that the difference between the traditional pedagogic model and the modern pedagogic model for learning to an adult age can be described according to six parameters: (Knowles, M.S., 1984)1) The need to know and to learn2) The Self-concept 3) The past learning experience4) The readiness to learn5) Practical reasons to learn6) The drive of the internal motivationThe academic instruction and education are intertwined with self-instruction and self-education activities initiated and managed by the student in the context of the independent academic learning, founded on the intellectual work.

Keywords: academic pedagogy, teaching/learning centred on the student, meta-knowledge/ meta-cognition, active-participative methods, autonomous thinking, critical thinking, experimental learning, forming valences.

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PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR – INTERIORIZATION EXPRESSION OF MORALSCrina-Dumitrita PopaFaculty of Psychology and education Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

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This article aims to highlight major existing relationship between internalized moral values by teaching- learning- assessment and prosocial behavior exhibited at educational praxis.Prosocial behavior requires primarily good knowledge of self, self-awareness, which we identify as a social person, we can identify the skills, abilities, desires, aspirations, values and last but not least we know ourselves by coming in contact own thoughts and emotions.When prove himself a genuine acceptance, internalization and enhancement based on moral values we can show an open attitude and confident to others.Prosocial behavior is aimed at supporting, preserving and promoting social values. Prosocial behavior by an individual / pupil demonstrates that cares about the welfare and rights of others, show concern for those around them, demonstrating empathy and acting in ways that are beneficial to others.Altruism as a subspecies of prosocial behavior is the moral virtue that is manifested by generosity and by a benevolent and selfless comprtament to promote the welfare of others people, even if it means taking a risk.

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LINGUISTIC AND TERMINOLOGICAL INTERFERING IN STUDYING SPECIALIZED LANGUAGESMaria PruteanuNicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Republic of Moldova

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The professional field of language application requires the formation of specific communication skills. They relate to the acquisition of the lexical elements characteristic to the specialized languages and prepare the ability to exercise a profession.Contextual (textual) interference phenomena can become the cornerstone of the entire teaching process in studying a language, so full understanding the information is an essential moment in studying specialized languages. That is why, giving priority to extra-linguistic factors, “spheres” of identical organization of the linguistic and terminological field, we consider that it is good to apply a contrastive analysis of the linguistic and terminological processes to develop the capacity of independent assimilation of “linguistic and non-linguistic coding” with professional orientation.The phenomenon of linguistic-terminological interference “possesses” a high degree of difficulty and complexity that resides in their content, in the topic approached. These difficulties can be overcome with the help of “the real convoy” of exercises, respecting the principle of graduation.In order to modify linguistic-terminological interferences and linguistic thinking (which belong to a sociolect), the teacher will choose prominent means of detecting the meanings of the linguistic subsystem using terminology, which may be recommended:• explanation of linguistic and non-linguistic coding;• contextualizing terms;• definition of terms by contrastive analysis;• highlighting the mechanisms of “creating” words;• support for internationalism

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• etymological analysis;• application linguistics.In conclusion, we find the following: in the process of teaching-learning-evaluation of the Romanian language as a non-mother tongue, the teacher has the possibility to resort to the phenomenon of linguistic-terminological interferences, to use the morphological investigation method, taking into account the structure and the component of the derivatives, interpretation of word meaning, contextual somatization.

Keywords: the phenomenon of interference, structural factors, structural factors, contrastive analysis, sphere of identical organization, applied linguistics, linguistic subsystem, specialized words, sociolect, linguistic and non-linguistic coding.

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FAIRYTALES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE IN PRIMARY SCHOOL Anamaria Cristina SabăuUniversity of Oradea, Faculty of Socio-Human Sciences

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Literary works with a comprehensive positive impact on the development of children from a moral, social, linguistic and psychological point of view remain stories, stories and fairy tales, from childhood to adolescence. Stepping into the world of childhood fairy tales, when grandparents and parents read them, and through adolescence, children learn the infinite treasure of wisdom from fairy tales. The first form of education organization, the kindergarten, pays particular attention to the development of verbal and non-verbal expression capacity, this being the basic condition in setting, training and transmission of information. The basic objective of language education in pre-school education is to educate children about oral, correct, coherent and expressive oral, oral, grammatical and lexical communication skills, Chiscop (2000) suggests. Children's literature is responsible, besides language education, for moral, religious and even aesthetic education. Although it is a very common topic, I consider that approaching this theme from the perspective of a young student to the specialization "Primary and Pre-school Education Pedagogy" is useful from the point of view of the stages of pedagogical practice. Methods and techniques used in class, their diversity, reveal the value of language as a means of expressing emotions and creativity. Stimulating them through fairy tales is neither easy nor simple, but largely depends on the teacher's training, maturity and professionalism, but also on the innovative spirit.

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PHONETICAL ASPECTS OF TEACHING ROMANIAN AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (BEGINNERS)Ana SanduSchool nr.102/Advit

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Learning the language of the country that he or she is serving to is one of the first steps that a volunteer has to make for integration in a new environment. Therefore, the Romanian teacher has not only the mission of teaching, but also the one of a culture facilitator. Teaching your mother tongue as a foreign one is both exciting and challenging. It is us, the Romanian teachers, who have to introduce them to not only new words and grammar structures, but also new sounds. Learners might struggle with the pronunciation of our specific vowels (open-mid, mid-centered, unrounded /ə/ - albă; close-mid/ɨ/ - cântec, în) and some consonants (voiceless fricative ș - roșu; affricate post-alveolar č, ğ – cine, centru, merge, mergi; dental-affricate ts - țară) that are not used in their native language. Romanian diphthongs and triphthongs represent another demanding aspect: /ij/ – copii, /əj/ – răi, /ɨj/ – pâine, /iw/ – fiu, /ɨw/ – râu, /e̯aw/ – beau, spuneau, /o̯aj/ – franțuzoaică, leoaică. Accent also plays an important role in the way a word is pronounced. It gives them the courage needed to challenge the communication with the local population. In conclusion, the correct pronunciation of the first words in Romanian will increase the motivation of the volunteers, their well-being and interest towards the job they are commited to.

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THE RELEVANCE OF CURRENT FORMAL EDUCATION IN PREPARING PUPILS / STUDENTS FOR THEIR INSERTION INTO THE LABOR MARKETFlavia Sătmărean (Zdranc)”1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

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The present project was carried out within the scientific performance scholarship awarded by "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia. The theme of the project deals with how the formation of self-perception, following the accumulation of basic knowledge through formal education provided to a certain point by the state, influences the integration and adaptation of an individual in society and in active work structures within a framework specific culture (Romania). This research work has attempted to conduct a thorough analysis through a predominantly qualitative research with narrow focus, collecting predominantly narrative data, targeting a sample of three groups of 30 people. All participants were chosen from the same cultural background (Romania). The first group was chosen among the students who are part of the gymnasium cycle (12-14 years old), the second group consisted of the students enrolled in bachelor or master studies (19-24 years) and the second the third group was selected from the employers category. The purpose of the study is to observe how people in the three target groups perceive themselves as human and as participants in society and the labor market, the value they give and the influence that formal education it has on their formation as pupils, students and future participants in the lucrative environment. The main objective is to draw a clear line between the expectations of the future employee and the employer and the awareness of possible gaps in the educational system. current education, which leads to poor generation of generations, to a waste of time and resources for young people trying to find their way into life and a real crisis in the labor market, generated by the lack of training of young people, the education received by these being only

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theoretical. All of these things are interconnected and will eventually lead to a collapse of society as we know it today. Students should be guided from the school's banks to discover their gifts and talents, and then learn how to use them to draw their own path in life. This research has highlighted that the lack of teachers' willingness to engage in student education and superficial teaching form a generation of people who do not respect authority and who cannot adapt to the society in which they live

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THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF INTERCULTURAL CONFLICTSStela Spînu„Dimitrie Cantemir” State University, Republic of Moldova / “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova

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The process of globalization, which initially dominated only the economic sphere, subsequently led to profound socio-political and cultural transformations, influencing interethnic and inter-confessional relations in multicultural and multilingual environments. The tendencies of undermining minority cultures, cultural homogenization, changing the national value model become dominant. Conflicts of values and norms are more and more frequently encountered among representatives of different cultural backgrounds. In the context of the new socio-political and cultural realities, the need to raise awareness of the importance of communication at all levels of the education system, to highlight the major challenges faced by young people belonging to different cultural backgrounds and the acquisition of the most effective methods of solving communication conflicts is evident. Intercultural communication has a decisive role in situations of crisis or conflict. Correct/ inappropriate communication styles (Competing Style, Compromising Style, Accommodating Style, Integrating Style, Collaborator style, Avoiding Style) determine the failure or success of the conflict resolution. In order to get straightforward information about the effectiveness of these styles of communication among young people, we conducted an opinion poll, involving Romanian Bessarabian students, Indians (the country of origin - India) and Arabs (the country of origin - Israel) who are studying at “Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy and “Dimitrie Cantemir” State University. Analysing the dynamics of behavioural processes (Table 1), we point out that in conflict or crises situations, young people choose the Avoiding Style, which ultimately does not contribute to the

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escalation of tensions, but denotes the ethnocentrism of those interviewed, the lack of self-confidence and belief in the promoted values. The most appropriate style of communication would be the Collaborator style. It is obvious that only a dialogue on equal terms and the use of an assertive style of communication can serve to prevent and manage conflicts between representatives of different cultural backgrounds.

Keywords: Intercultural communication, communication styles, conflicts of values and norms.

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THE ROLE OF HUMAN SECURITY IN IDENTIFYING NEW PERSPECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF NATIONAL SECURITYSerghei SprinceanState University ”Dimitrie Cantemir” (Moldova)The Institute of Legal, Political and Sociological Research,Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

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The successes of teaching in the field of national security are in many ways closely linked to the effectiveness of the process of adapting educational standards and of the training of highly qualified specialists in the field of national security to the objectives, requirements and values promoted by the theory of human security through its inherent principles, especially concerning the question regarding the human being, with the entire complexity of its problematics. One of the most important tasks of the process of professional practical and theoretical training in the field of national security is to foster special care and attention to basic national values, to the national wealth, to state imperatives, as well as to sources of national wealth and prosperity, which consist in the quality of the national human resource. Fostering a new generation of specialists in the field of national security is impossible without emphasizing the universal nature of the knowledge about the state as well as the totality of methods of protecting state interests. Among them, the human security has the first priority. The increased interest of society and its governing bodies in ensuring national security is increasingly reflected in the promotion and support of the development of the educational process of multi-skilled personnel in the field of compliance and protection of national security and of the national, strategically important, interests and values. The pedagogical methods used in the process of educating a new generation of highly skilled national security professionals are also irreversibly modernized and adapted to the new requirements and conditions of activity in the

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field of human security. The pedagogical methodology inherent in the specialized education in the field of national and state security includes the most avant-garde and interdisciplinary elaborations, allowing to develop not only the mental and intellectual, but also the emotional and psycho-moral qualities of the national security student.

Keywords: human security, national security, development, education, modernization.

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THE TEACHER – A MEDIATOR OF INTERCULTURAL STUDIESSilvia StratulatAngela BabuciArgentina ChiriacTatiana TrebeșNicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Republic of Moldova

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In the current social, educational, dynamic, and interrelated contexts, the profile of the teacher gains new dimensions, and realizes new roles. Besides the traditional position, the teacher is a facilitator, a cultural mediator, a moderator of the dialogues between the participants of the educational communication. For an intercultural competent teacher, it is important not only what is taught and how effectively it is taught, but how students perceive themselves, colleagues and others around them. Thus the teacher needs to understand more about how cultural messages, including their own teaching process, affect the formation of students from diverse backgrounds. As a facilitator of intercultural dialogue, the teacher should have the capacity to negotiate cultural significance, the capacity to adapt and to reorganize his own cultural heritage, for understanding various linguistic and cultural codes. Being a mediator in the intercultural dialogue and to poses the cross-curricular communication ability and to understand realistically the relationship between language and cultural significance, as well as the ways in which culture gives the form of transmitted messages.

Keywords: education, intercultural studies, teacher, teaching/learning, dialogue

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THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND MULTIDISCIPLINARITY IN THE INSTRUCTIVE-EDUCATIONAL PROCESSVeronica SumanIna DrigaNicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Republic of Moldova

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In the process of studying is very important to understand the importance of overcoming various boundaries and how to interact that boundaries for achieving a new experience, knowledge. In the instructive-educational process is also significant how teachers interact for achieving a common purpose – to help the students, the pupils to find and to understand the connection between different disciplines and various education areas. For achieving these goals, all those involved in the educational instructive process have focus on interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity. Interdisciplinary approach contains many advantages: improve the creativity, critical thinking, a wider approach to the different disciplines. The process of studying is not a strictly linear process, because of this is important to make the transfer from theoretical background into practical, on life situations. There’s necessity to distinguish between multidisciplinarity and pluridisciplinarity, because sometimes these two approaches are overlap: pluridisciplinary refers to the correlation of related disciplines, multidisciplinarity refers to bringing together disciplines that do not necessarily have obvious links between them. Multidisciplinarity also has many advantages: pupils / students make a link between the content of different disciplines, explaining topics or issues that cannot be explained in a single discipline. The achieving of these two goals in the educative process helps to understand that the study process is an ample process that helps to develop lifelong skills.

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Keywords: the instructive-educational process, multidisciplinarity, goals of education, interdisciplinarity.

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MULTIPERSPECTIVITY IN HISTORY DIDACTICSFelicia Elena Tatu (Boșcodeală)Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Bucharest UniversityNational Pedagogical College Spiru Haret, Buzău

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For a long time, history has been approached from an ethnocentric perspective, based on the idea that national history should be the framework from which to present the universal history. Confirmation of the "New History" current, which promotes an unprecedented approach history in school allows history teaching to become more and more visible from a global perspective that goes beyond the image that Western Europe is the only source of history of the continent and which exploits the common European heritage. That is why, in the 21st century, new social groups began to be studied: women, the poor, children, immigrants, etc.By synthesizing several researchers' definitions of the concept of multiperspectivity, Robert Stradling argues that multiperspectivity in teaching history is a "way and predisposition to see historical events, personalities, cultures and societies from multiple perspectives" by using fundamental procedures and processes. In the current European conferences, multiperspectivity is a notion used more often to describe a certain type of curriculum approach. In fact, multiperspectivity can also be understood as "modality to consider, select, examine and use evidence from different sources to clarify the complexity of a situation ".Almost all history research specialists are doing so, and even young children can understands that in the case of a battle or in the advent of a country has at least two perspectives on the event: the winner and the defeated, the invader and the invaded.

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Keywords: didactics, history, multiperspectivity

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DIMENSIONS AND TRENDS OF EDUCATION AND TEACHING IN THE III MILLENNIUMLiana TăușanTechnical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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The paradigm of adapting school to the learning necessities and possibilities of the student, characteristic for future systems of education and for contemporary network type educational systems, requires a diversity of learning situations and experiences, built in accordance with the possibilities and the needs of all student categories, in order to respond to the principles of: ‘inclusive education’, ‘education for all’ and ‘integrated education’. A series of documents from the international educational politics promote and sustain dimensions belonging to the paradigm of the educational process centred on the student and of the real accommodation of the school to the possibilities and the necessities of the student: The Convention on the Rights of the Child, The Framework for Action from the World Education Forum in Dakar, The Millennium Development Goals, UNESCO Medium-Term Strategy for 2008 – 2013. The national educational strategies sustain and promote the principle of school readjustment to the needs and to the capacities of the students, at the level of objectives and lines of action contained by the official strategic educational documents, trying to create a qualitative education and the insurance of chance equality during the entire educational route.

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STIMULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POVERTY MOTIVATIONFOR THE LEARNING OF MATHEMATICS - FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLEIN MODERN DIDACTICSTeodor Dumitru VălcanBabeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

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School reality shows that: 1) for the majority of students of a class Mathematics is arid and difficult to penetrate and 2) most students of a class learn Mathematics because of an extrinsic motivation - this is in the happiest case because, unfortunately, there are very many students who have no motivation to learn Mathematics or even to learn nothing. Therefore, to mitigate the effects of these facts, in the present paper we intend to make a description of the principle of stimulating and developing students' motivation for learning Mathematics. This is how we will address the following three issues: first we will see what it means motivation and what are its main features and implications in psychological processes - as they are highlighted in the field literature; then we will move on to present the principles of Didactics of Mathematics and their fundamental characteristics, for in the end to describe, in short, the aforementioned principle, from the point of view of Education and Development Psychology and classroom application.

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EQUIPOTENT SETS - FUNDAMENTAL RESULTSTeodor Dumitru VălcanBabeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

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Equipotent sets are a fundamental concept in Higher Mathematics, he designating two or more sets between which a bijective application can be established. This paper is dedicated exclusively to this concept and presents the fundamental results related to it. First we will show that the equipotential relation is an equivalence relation; the equivalence class of a set A will be called the cardinal of A and will be marked with A. The sets equipotent with the set N of natural numbers will be countably infinite. Then we will present necessary (and sufficient) conditions for two or more sets, a reunion, and a cartesian product of sets to be both equipotent and countably.

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ANALYSIS OF COMPETENCE STRUCTURE IN THE AREA OF COMPETENCE USE OF CONTENT KNOWLEDGE IN CHEMISTRY Roxana TimofteElke SumflethMaik Walpuski Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

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In 2004 were proposed the national standards for science in Germany. For the evaluation of the proposed standards, the project Evaluation of the National Educational Standards for Natural Sciences at the Lower Secondary Level, with the acronym ESNaS, was started in 2007 (Kremer et al., 2012; Kauertz et al., 2010). A three-dimensional competence model was developed, with the three axes: competence area, complexity and cognitive processes. The focus of this study was the development of an instrument to assess pupils’ competencies in the area of competence use of content knowledge in Chemistry. A number of 101 items were developed by using the ESNaS model, in order to evaluate the competence in Chemistry of High School German pupils. Items were developed on the theoretically-defined aspects of the topic Chemical Reactions: acid-base reactions, redox reactions, fundamentals of reactions, reactions used in analysis, organic chemistry reactions. The Rasch model was used for the analysis of data. A number of N=568 German pupils (9th, 10th and 11th class) were tested, and it was revealed that the instrument is unidimensional and has good psychometric properties.

Keywords: Rasch model, competence analysis, assessment in Chemistry, chemical reactions, dimensionality

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MUSIC THERAPY, THE SCIENCE OF THE 20TH CENTURYCarolina Tomoianu„Mihai Marinciuc” high school, Chishinau city, the Republic of Moldova.

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Music is part of every man's life in one way or another. It is a form of expression, a form of therapy, a form of entertainment, a form of living nicely. Lately, studies have been conducted to confirm that music helps improve many aspects of our lives.Music therapy called also melotherapy is a form of non-verbal therapy, beneficial for maintaining physical and mental health. It addresses to all age categories, both for personal development, and for opening a new communication channel for people with psychiatric disorders, for children suffering from various mental disorders. Although used since ancient times, melotherapy has taken a systematic form in the 20th century. The beginnings of melotherapy date back to the Second World War. When doctors thought that music could be used to treat soldiers who had suffered trauma and shocks from the war bursts.In the case of children, music therapy is successfully used in autism; opens new channels of communication and helps express emotions. Sounds are the first forms of expression the child comes into contact with. As we can see, most children love to sing and dance. In this way, they manage to express emotions and feelings easily and develop their creativity. They can also greatly improve their emotional state when they listen to or sing songs that have a positive impact on their psyche.

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FROM DEVELOPMENTS IN THE THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF TRAINING TO GENUINE LEARNING EXPERIENCESLetiția Muntean Trif ”1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

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Internationally and nationally representative studies present educational reforms, promote innovation, adaptation or reconsideration across all components of a learning system. In this respect, we exemplify the analysis of educational systems in various important states of all continents, such as Canada, Finland, Singapore, China, Australia, which identified the following common elements of educational success: commitment to equity - every child is important and all children can learn; The professionalism of the directors and teaching staff in schools - initial and continuous training is achieved at the highest standards; Orientation towards a global approach - alignment to international trends in student education; Motivation and involvement of pupils in learning - school is an attractive learning space, relationships between teachers and pupils are supported by mutual trust, respect, encouragement (V. Stewart, 2012). In the Romanian education system we emphasize two directions: the concern for a law of education, which intends to correct the dysfunctions of the Law No. 1-2011 and, on the other hand, improving the quality of education, through developments in theory and the methodology of training good practices in countries with top results in PISA; TIMSS etc., which promotes genuine learning experiences, reported to the European Union's educational standards.

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WHAT SCHOOL DO WE NEED? THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL TODAY.Roksana UlatowskaTischner European University in Krakow, Poland

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The author discusses the current role of school as an element of the wider social system. She wonders if school is a place where students gain valuable knowledge, skills and attitudes. Recalling the model of Finnish education, the author shows a school that teaches how to explore the world and competently live in it. The article also discusses the most important educational values.

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METHODS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR KNOWING PRE-SCHOOL CHILDRENAurora VârteiCarmen VârteiISJ Alba Iulia

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"Begin by knowing your students better, as you certainly do not know them at all" - J. J.RousseauKnowing the group of children is an important prerequisite for the intervention in the structure and the dynamics of the group, and even more for the achievement of a global development of the pre-school child, by means of an individualized and a differentiated education, through which children can attain their full potential. Pedagogical practice shows that in the field of instruction and education, identical teaching strategies generate different results. It is, therefore, good for educators to abandon patterns and prejudices and to direct their educational action towards knowing the children's abilities, interests and skills. There is a unanimous tendency to divide methods of knowing children into two categories: clinical methods (the observation, the conversation, and the biographical method) and psychometric or experimental methods (the experiment, the sociometric test and the questionnaire). The psychological knowledge of the child is not an end in itself, but it is the premise for achieving the highest efficiency of the instructive-educational work in the kindergarten. By knowing the children, the educator discovers their inclinations, their skills, and motivations, he/she develops them, and by leaning on them, he/she can more easily prevent and eliminate their negative traits and manifestations. Child knowledge involves the use of a variety of methods and procedures, because the data obtained through a single method are unilateral. However, by using multiple methods, one can obtain complementary and varied information.

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MODERN TRENDS IN DIDACTIC METHODOLOGYVictoria VîntuAliona BusuiocNicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Republic of Moldova

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The article points out the tendencies in the modern foreign languages learning and teaching, paying attention to the didactics of Romanian as a foreign language.The modern didactic demarche is based on the active and interactive involving of students in the process of study, depending on their interests and preferences. The teachers aim to find additional instruments that can offer new learning opportunities and assure an effective and colorful teaching considering the individual differences. They focus on such modern techniques as didactic applications, multimedia materials.The work presents the advantages of informational technologies’ implementation during the lessons of Romanian as a foreign language. Due to IT, the teaching process is provided with a solid background and students have the opportunity to discover new linguistic structures, to use words in unexpected contexts. Using of images, video and animations stimulates the students’ creativity and increases their attention. Thus, they can assimilate a large amount of information in a short time. Students get the opportunity to improve their knowledge, their skills of oral and written comprehension.

Keywords: teaching, learning, multimedia, linguistics structures, modern techniques.

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THE LEARNING PROCESS, A CENTRAL ELEMENT OF THE CURRICULUMCamelia VladBazna Gymnasium School, Sibiu County

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Why can the learning process be considered a central element of the curriculum? This is a reflexive question from which the proposed paper derives. The responses are generated by the educational process currently carried out in schools. According to specialty literature; the context of learning is on the axis of the curriculum components. The transformation into a valuable learning experience depends on intrinsic and extrinsic factors, both functional for teachers and students. Keeping the road to operational objectives, „cemented” with multiple significant contents, we believe that any dedicated teacher manages to achieve predefined goals. Once achieved, the child's passing through school life is facilitated. Later, it will be easy for the adult to pass through his/her professional life, the adult being once a beneficiary of a judiciously and strictly respected educational offer. Looking at the title, we see the similarity between the spiral and the learning process. Being the center of the spiral, it flows in an increasing sense for the educator's soul and mind. Briefly, the paper wants to illustrate the existing relationship between the topic chosen, resources, didactics, style, creativity and success. This combination of elements carries character modeling experiences.

Keywords: curriculum-continuous training algorithm, learning situation, anchor questions, strategy, methodology, impact.

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THE DIDACTIC PROCEDURE WHICH PROVIDES QUALITY TO THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESSEleonora Ștefârța VladimirNicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Republic of Moldova

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Teachers are always looking for the most appropriate and effective methods, processes, and teaching materials that could be selected to deliver content from all the "good solutions - older and newer – tested and validated in practice" to successfully accomplish clearly set objectives.In the medical institution, the information that should be given to students is very important, but the training methods are also not underestimated, so in the process of teaching-learning, the "traditional and new" procedures, methods and forms of organization are being successfully associated. We refer to repetition in this article – an efficient and indispensable traditional procedure, that can be "located" at any stage of the training process and which cannot be substituted or valued as "obsolete" when it is desired to achieve depth and quality.The integrative value of the repetition procedure is mentioned in the context of the university curriculum, which is organized in the interdisciplinary way at the present stage.The use of the repetition is motivated inside the process of acquiring of medical terminological knowledge, which, being completed by other procedures, helps the student to assimilate the necessary lexicon at the incipient stage of university studies.The work on the correctness of the form, that expresses certain meanings, is also achieved with the help of repetition. The table, which will be presented, includes information on the topic "The Noun and Adjective d.3", in an own view, which facilitates the teaching and studying of some Latin grammar elements, which constitute the logical

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support for a conscious learning of medical and pharmaceutical terms with various structures.Feedback suggests that the repetition releases the stressful states of the teaching-learning process, encourages confident progress to discover new information, having a knowledge of medical terminology, well-understood and memorized, by applying this frequently used procedure.

Keywords: methods, process of education, Latin language, pharmaceutical terms.

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SMART EDUCATION PLATFORM AND APPLICATIONS DESIGNED TO HELP AND RACK STUDENTS' TRAINING AND PROGRESSIoan VlașinSchool „Mihai Eminescu” Ighiu

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The concept “smart” is used here with the meaning taken from the technology field, related to products capable of processing information and acting according to it by using software. Intelligent education takes into account the intelligent nature of humans, recognizes and integrates the three types of programming on which they operate (genetic, cultural and personal) and is built to be a smart, optimized and self-controlled in real time system.For a good functioning, all intelligent systems have a number of variables that they are tracking and updating permanently on a data platform and others, during specific processes. In order to achieve intelligent education, a similar platform is needed, a platform on which the main participants in this process can track in real time the state of the training and the progress that is made in time by the learners.Such an online platform that retains qualitative and qualitative information on the state of training and the progress of each student has been made for primary and secondary levels, based on the new programs. The access to it, data uploading, and process tracking is being done through dedicated mobile apps with Android, briefly presented in the paper and on www.educatiesmart.ro.It is important to note that without such a platform it is impossible to achieve a quality, efficient, flexible and truly individualized education. So the evaluation cannot be integrated into education as a fundamental and a real-time diagnostic component that can provide reverse connection and process optimization, but instead remains a simple, unverified verdict.

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Keywords: education platform, training, education progress

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