Abstract The paper has in view the effort to modernize the school curriculum understood as an educational systemic project based on competences. We have tried to give a definition to the concept of competence, according to the approach of mobility metaphor, of using the resources of the person in order to solve a series of […]

Abstract The more and more repeated requirements from the educational environment and, more than that, from the labour market, determine teachers to search for and to implement (in the formative praxis) solutions which are meant to generate a qualitative improvement of results. Rediscovering and giving new signs to the value of the human potential of […]

Abstract Nowadays, career design as an inherent part of the educational process demonstrates itself as being a continuous process. The lack of conceptual framework for categories, the ambiguity of a placement in category context seeks the clarification of the most important aspects of career design. In the proposal, the author would like to emphasize the […]

Abstract Education by morals means, mainly, making students love truth, justice and honesty in a world where lie, injustice and dishonesty exist at the same time. Generally, in order to achieve this goal a range of recommendations or, sometimes, commandments is used such as, for example, the Decalogue. In this paper we present an alternative […]

Resumé Le champs axiologique des dernières décennies intègrent une variable inédite de plus en plus évoquée, il s’agit du succès (ou de la réussite), invoqué inévitablement à côté d’échec corrélé (ou la non-réussite). Si le succès est souhaité, cherché, construit, même revendiqué, l’échec répudié se recommande à l’unisson, il faut être éliminé méthodiquement des actions, […]

Résumé Une modalité de discuter un système terminologique est l’étymologie. Notre étude a en vue l’analyse de l’étymologie de la terminologie alimentaire roumaine par rapport aux facteurs temporels, spatiaux et sociaux. Ces facteurs représentent, dans la vision d’Eugène Coserio, les générateurs de variation diachronique, diatopique et diastratique. Les diverses formes de la manifestation de ces […]

Abstract In a project of forming teenagers for the understanding of the economic communication we have tried to highlight the patterns for defining the heroes promoted in educative films. Our survey focused on two groups of high-school pupils (from Iaşi and Târgu-Frumos) who gave ratings to the two characters and had to choose between the […]

Abstract The present paper intends to present the structure and the functions of the Romanian traditional educational system as well as the identity and roles of its teachers. Covering a large range of subjects of study and using a multitude of strategies in teaching, the task of the archaic Romanian school is very important in […]

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate why argumentation is one of the main functions of oral communication and to discuss the most important argumentative strategies: cooperation, interrogation, polemic negation, rejection and metaphor. Key words: argumentation, communication, argumentative strategies SCS_11_2007_18

Abstract There has been much debate in the last few years upon the relation between sign and text, meaning and sense/ significance, literal meaning and implicit meaning, etc. In this paper I try to express my opinion – based, of course, on what has already been said so far – with respect to the necessity […]