REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THE USE OF STUDENT-CENTRED EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES IN THE PROCESS OF EDUCATION

Abstract The application of the educational strategies centred on the student/ subject of learning offers teachers multiple opportunities of discovering the students’ personalities, and it offers students the possibility of creating learning experiences and forming or practising some competences and skills specific to the didactic profession. Key words: competences, strategies, student-centred education SCS_11_2007_33  

EVALUATION AND SELF-EVALUATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract This research attempts to describe the specific nature of evaluation in academic education. We are interested in assessing students in what evaluation is regarded. For the practical part of this research, we applied a survey to the students of “Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava. The questions of the survey are about the methods, […]

CONTEMPORARY SCHOOL FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES. APPROACH TO ACTIVE LEARNING AT AN ORGANIZATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL LEVEL

Abstract Organizational development appears as a corollary to school development. Organizational theories are frequently used in present studies, given the imposed vision of modern man, seen as an organizational man; evidently, the argument would be that organizations do not exist without people, still they are not limited to the sum of organizations forming them, but […]

ACTUALITE ET STRINGENCE DANS LA FORMATION ET LE PERFECTIONNEMENT DU PERSONNEL DIDACTIQUE

Résumé Le rythme accéléré de l’évolution sociale, l’existence d’une certain type de culture et de civilisation qui impose des standards de vie et des demandes expresses aux personnalité humaine dans un continu de formation et de développement mettront l’empreinte sans doute sur la vie de l’école et de ses acteurs principaux. Un expert doit avoir obligatoire […]

SUGGESTION FOR PROFESSIONAL ATTESTATION OF BEGINNER TEACHERS

Abstract In Romania, because of the absence of rigorously elaborated professional standards, teachers’ professional evaluation is overdrawn. The evaluation for the professional certificate is carried out at the time of the examination of “definitivat”. The differences in teachers’ evaluations show that the current system of evaluation is very subjective. By analyzing various bibliographical sources and […]

CONSTRUCTIVISM AND EDUCATION

Abstract Placing the didactic activity under the paradigm of focusing on the subject of learning involves both a general change of approach and punctual modifications upon its three component processes: design, development, evaluation. Using a permanent comparative analysis with the context of focusing on the teacher, the present paper intends to identify, inventory and present […]

QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: FROM EVALUATING PERFORMANCES TO EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF THE STUDY PROGRAMMES

Abstract The curricular reform, politics programmes, quality management, strategies and procedures for ensuring the quality of the programmes of initial and continuous training are syntagms that describe the changes that occurred in the Romanian higher education by the implementation of the Bologna System and the reaccreditation of universities by aligning them to the European standards […]

INTEGRATIVE CURRICULUM CENTRED ON COMPETENCES

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 […]

CONSTRUCTIVISM AND ITS IMPACT ON DEVELOPING STUDENT–CENTERED STRATEGIES

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 […]