Abstract The assessment is an important educational field and it is permanently inclined to many debates. This could be another issue of the academic evaluation through which its beneficiary appreciates analyses and decides within the academic area. In this study, we try to survey students perceptions on objectivity or subjectivity of assessment in higher education. […]

Abstract The assessment may be considered a process of comparison between an observed situation and an expected situation. The process of evaluation involves a system of reference, interpreted in a model of priorities, which contains the expected situation and the criteria of judgment, which will guide the interpretation of empirical evidence. There are five interrogatives […]

Abstract In the name of rationalization and efficiency, the society – with its institutions and organisations- is going to birocratize. The trend of increasing the number and the importance of rules, methodologies and procedures proves the stressing and encouraging of impersonal relationships instead of the personal ones. As a consequence there shows up the problem […]

Abstract The current paper intends to emphasize a series of similarities, dissimilarities and continuities between two situations of training for the religious values: catechization, realised inside the church, and religious education, realised in school. The two aspects of the religious training are analysed in relation to a series of didactic milestones. Key words: catechization, religious […]

Abstract Personal value systems concern people’s own judgments about the capacity of human beings to enable the best possible living for themselves. Social value systems concern people’s perceptions about other’s judgments concerning the capacity of entities to enable the best possible living. Personal and social value systems are both intrapsychic structures which can influence people’s […]

Abstract The study intends to look into an important and actual domain – forming and developing the meta-cognitive competences for students who are trained for a didactic career. The building of the educator’s professionalism must be focused on the contributions of cognitive psychology and on studying the didactic expertise, on Schon’s recent papers about “the […]

Abstract The idea according to which the acquired knowledge presents a functional organisation that leads to its contextualization has a certain heuristic value and it is supported by arguments that come from two different research fields, but that are divergent in their conclusions: the analysis of the cognitive functioning of the adults, who are considered […]

Résumé Ce texte décrit comment on peut appréhender et analyser les effets psychiques et sociaux (déviance, imitation, créativité, rejet) des cultures musicales dites « extrêmes », chez les groupes « jeunes » (12-30 ans). Ces musiques sont fortement provocantes ou assez extrémistes soit dans les messages et les idéologies diffusés, soit dans les formes sonores utilisées (rap hardcore ou […]

Abstract In the last couple of years, the meaning of „marriage” seems to have developed and gained new and different perspectives of understanding. Intimacy and conflict resolution play a very important role in maintaining an optimal level of marital satisfaction. The skills involved in conflict resolution and intimacy are part of a larger concept which […]

Abstract The study intends to reveal the main valences of the motivation involved in choosing the didactic career for elementary and pre-school education. The investigation has been carried out during the interview organised for the selection of students in the “Pedagogy of elementary and pre-school education” university degree specialisation, for the 2008 – 2009 academic […]