Studia Universitatis Moldaviae. Stiinte ale educatiei

3-8

Authors: Otilia DANDARA

This article emphasizes the issue of career projection for women. All statements and conclusions are based upon an empiric study on a group of women, mostly from the rural areas. The results partially confirm the theories on the specific perception that lay at the base of research, and the necessity for women’s career development throughout the lifespan. Lacking methodical guidance in an institutionalised context, women tend to build certain visualizations on careers being influenced by their lifestyle, non-formal activities and informal education. Yet, a powerful factor, which still impacts women’s career projection is the family and the motherhood, even if there are different approaches and attitudes related to this dimension. Qualification represents a vectorial mechanism for career growth.

19-26

Authors: Valentin-Cosmin BLÂNDUL, Carolina ȚURCANU

This article addresses some aspects of the European policies on non-formal education following the transformations brought about by economic, social, demographic and, in particular, pandemic contexts. In this sense, the European policies are part of the educational policies related to lifelong learning and key competences transfer, recommended by the Council of Europe at Brussels in 2018. The article also describes some conceptual approaches to non-formal education in the context of the new public policies in the field of education. At the same time, a comparative study of the aspects, profiles and outcomes of non-formal education in the European countries is presented and the respective conclusions are formulated.

36-41

Authors: Aliona AFANAS

The article reveals a comparative analysis of standards of teachers’ professional competencies at the national and international levels. The analysis highlights similarities and differences regarding the competence system of teachers in various countries. The scientific information presented is based on several normative and educational policy documents. The analysis of standards of teachers’ professional competencies and their role in the continuous professional teacher training allowed the formulation of some relevant conclusions for the education system.

47-53

Authors: Valeria PASCARU-GONCEAR

Attitudes are the psychic structures that help us in the selective orientation towards various aspects of the environment in which we live. They represent explicit or implicit conceptions of what is desirable or undesirable, are not directly observable, and involve cognitive, affective and behavioural elements. Attitudes are a fundamental motive of human behaviour and often its direct cause, and, consequently, a central element in the determining the chain of human behaviour. Attitudes determine the orientation of behaviour and make it meaningful. That’s why the deep and multilateral knowledge of the phenomenon of attitudes unleashes vast possibilities to understand the human being and their behaviour and is an important tool for elucidating the explored problems.

58-65

Authors: Veaceslav IORDACHESCU

The variety of approaches to religious education in the school curriculum has led theorists' efforts to establish its various para¬digms. In this article we present some of the paradigms of religious education developed by researchers J.P. Willaime, W. C. Durham, Carl Sterkens, Michael Grimmitt, Goth Read, J. Pelupessy-Wowor. Each of these paradigms has crystallized in response to certain social challenges, such as multiculturalism and religious diversity.

72-75

Authors: Constantin ȘCHIOPU

The article refers to a series of psychological factors which determine the reading and interpretation of the literary work: linguistic, literary, cultural competences, the imaginative, associative, sensorial, empathic, emotional and projective endowments, opinions, beliefs and personal attitudes of the reader/interpreter, their expectation horizon. Therefore, some theories on the reading and reception of the literary work have been updated: the structural character of the literary work (H.Markiewicz), the horizon of expectation (H.R.Jauss), the training of competences (P.Cornea), the reader  a participant in the creative act (J.P.Sartre). Hence, depending on these psychological parameters, several methodological suggestions regarding the interpretation of the literary work are proposed.

81-88

Authors: Oxana CREANGA

The present paper approaches the concept of mediation in the context of teaching English as a foreign language. Drawing on the analysis of this language activity treated by notorious authors, such as Maria Stathopoulou, Brian North, and Enrica Piccardo, it focuses on a broader view of mediation presented in CEFR (2001) and subsequently developed in CEFR Companion Volume with New Descriptors (2018). The article pursues to determine the improvements brought to this concept, the new illustrative descriptor scales alongside the mediation strategies with a view to devising specific mediation tasks correlated with the three macro-groups of mediation activities: mediating texts, mediating concepts, and mediating communication aimed at developing learners’ mediation skills.

94-100

Authors: Татьяна ПАНКО, Николае СИЛИСТРАРУ

The article discusses the model of professional ethnopedagogical training of future teachers aimed at the formation of ethnopedagogical competence. The following basic blocks for the formation of ethnopedagogical competence are presented and described: target, methodological, organizational, substantive, methodological, criterial-diagnostic and effective. Also, there are described the tasks, approaches, principles and conditions for the development of ethnopedagogical competence of the future teachers. The authors identify the components of ethnopedagogical competence and the criteria for its formation. The feasibility of introducing a model into the educational process of a higher education institution has been experimentally proven.

109-117

Authors: Ольга ГЕРЛОВАН*, Татьяна ШАРШОВ

The article determines the specifics of the educational product and its assessment at the stage of the summative (final) assessment in the Russian language and literature high school course. The authors substantiate the structure and content of the test for the national baccalaureate examination in the Russian language and literature. Particular attention is paid to the essay as a final educa¬tional product. The authors analyse the use of criteria-based assessment on a specific example and show the typical weaknesses in writing an essay.

122-125

Authors: Oana Gabriela ȘORODOC

This article proposes a short etymological presentation and a conceptualization of ethnosophy, a side that comes to complete the image of ethnology and antropology, although the term can be found rarely in dictionaries, because it is still in the search of its birth certificate. At the same time, we shall try to discover the role of the junimists in the birth of ethnosophy as a science.

135-138

Authors: Armine HOVHANNISYAN, Valentina BODRUG-LUNGU

In this article, we explore several ideas focusing on civic engagement. It is emphasized that today we are living in a period of major transformations in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, which puts people, activities and institutions to the test. According to the theories of representative democracy and participatory democracy, participation is associated with the understanding of democracy and the relationship between citizens and the state. At the same time, the term civic engagement includes several meanings such as participation, involvement, cooperation, responsibility, commitment etc. We conclude that civic engagement can manifest itself in various forms - individual volunteering, community involvement efforts, organizational involvement, which can include the direct approach to a problem through personal work, community activity or involvement in the work of representative democracy institutions. Civic engagement implies not only the wil¬lingness to engage actively, but also the skills necessary to participate, to correlate the rights with the respective res¬ponsibilities.

143-146

Authors: Aurelia GLAVAN, Silvia VRABIE

This article discusses the process of evaluation, diagnosis and multimodal intervention for children suffering from autism. The main idea is that autism should be diagnosed as early as possible, considering that the outcomes can be improved over the long term through an early intervention of a multidisciplinary team, and the practical experience demonstrated that autism therapy is primarily based on education.

153-160

Authors: Galina PRAVIȚCHI, Victoria CHICU

Researching attachment styles and love languages of young people is a particularly current and important part of the condition that any person throughout their life will maintain a couple relationship. Knowing your own and your partner’s patterns of behaviour can ensure a cognitive understanding of communication problems which allows empathising with your partner who can sometimes overwhelm with their needs or who hurts with their indifference – it all depends on the request-response dynamics of the attachment style and the love language. These define, to a great extent, the functional capacity of a qualitative couple relationship.

166-168

Authors: Elena NISTREAN

The article presents an analysis of the literature on separation anxiety. The impact of long and repeated interruptions of the bond between mother and child in the first years of life is elucidated. A particular aspect that John Bowlby (1970) supports is that although the losses suffered during the first five years of life most often lead to the occurrence of separation anxiety disorder, the losses suffered later in life have pathogenic potential too. In this sense, the theory is validated by clinical practice that attests the causal relationship between psychological disorders and loss or separation that occurred at a certain time.

174-179

Authors: Valeria PASCARU-GONCEAR

The term “paedophilia” is often applied in various social contexts as any sexual interest towards children or as the act of child sexual abuse. Paedophilia occurs at the age of puberty and is a lifelong affection. A risk factor is the antisocial behaviour, as well as sexual abuse in childhood, as put by many paedophiles. Some researchers believe that the stigma of paedophiles in society prevents them from seeking a specialist for treatment. The purpose of this article is to explain paedophilia and to provide information on the characteristics of those who are sexually attracted to minors. Although the article also covers some emotional issues that paedophiles can face, there is absolutely no intention of justifying their behaviour or attractions. On the contrary, the message is to urge and encourage paedophiles to use the help of specialists because they are responsible for their own sexual behaviours.

183-186

Authors: Ionica-Luminița STOENICĂ

Our study approaches the issue of affectivity at the level of special dimension of human personality. At this level, the reflecting content and the reflection forms specific for simple, complex and superior affective processes are highlighted. As a superior product of affective processes, emotional intelligence does not exclude, but rather involves the opening towards other noncognitive and cognitive processes. From this perspective, we emphasise the thesis promoted by D.Goleman regarding the fact that emotional intelligence has an overwhelming amount of influence over the development of human personality. The importance of EQ in education is obvious at the level of affective and motivational empathy. In this context, Goleman proposes a process of “education of emotions”, which ultimately aims at cultivating “more democracy in the treatment of others”.

191-195

Authors: Инна ТЕЛЮКОВА, Людмила АНЦИБОР

A person’s emotional development is recognized as the key factor in determining life success, considerably more than the mental power. Therefore, the formation of “smart” emotions and removal of gaps in the emotional development should be considered as a prioritized and overriding task in education/mental training.

03-06

Authors: Nadejda VELIȘCO

The article addresses the impact of TEMPUS projects as a success story for the Republic of Moldova, being the most durable program to support the higher education reform through which it succeeded: curricular reform, the development of university governance, the strengthening of the three cycles of studies - bachelor's, master's, doctorate; development of the national mechanism of quality assurance in higher education; development of university autonomy and improvement of the university management system; adjusting the training of specialists to the needs of the labor market, creating partner¬ships between the academic and the economic environment; strengthening the lifelong learning component, etc.

15-20

Authors: Viorica GORAȘ-POSTICĂ

The study presents the results of a pedagogical research on the issue of the internships in universities, including the intercultural perspective. The investigated aspects relate to the success, advanced practices, but also to the challenges and difficulties involved in the current stage in the management and capitalization of the skills acquired by students, future educators, during different types of internship. The group of respondents considered as experts in the field, included university teachers, internship coordinators, and the questioning as a basic method was relevant to the proposed research objectives, having a finding, formative and control character in the given topic.

32-35

Authors: Nadejda VELIŞCO

The article refers to the reforms regarding the university governance started with the implementation of the Education Code, to the contribution of the new strategic institutional development Councils for the development of the institution, the improvement of the activity of these Councils and the cooperation with the university senates for the beneficiaries of the higher education institution.

44-48

Authors: Eugenia GANEA

This article discusses the issues related to the disproportionate impact of online education during the Coronavirus lock¬down on girls, in particular those in TVET institutions. The disproportionate access to online learning technologies and the lack of time that would normally have been allocated to learning - are two reasons that have a differentiated impact on girls compared to boys, on all levels of education. This crisis can seriously affect the technical vocational education system in the medium and long term, given the gender segregation of jobs learnt in these institutions, the impact of the crises on restaurant & cafe businesses and job losses in the sector.

55-62

Authors: Sergiu OREHOVSCHI

The article highlights the necessity and role of homework in pre-university education. The material reveals the position of several educational actors concerning the issue of the academic engagement of the student outside the school. The author's conclusion refers to the need of changing the home organization of school activities.

66-70

Authors: Corina BALAN, Zoia GUȚU

Aggression and violence remain old concerns, but contemporan and actual too. The subject is inexhaustible, the causes are true causal complexes, the forms of manifestation are varied, so that the measures which prevent or diminish an aggressive behavior are difficult to prescribe, even for general situation or for special ones. The violence in schools requires an objective approach, aimed for identifying solutions that can be used to prevent and reduce it. If the extent linked to the level of aggression which affects the behavior of the students is checked, there could be identified ways of individual treatment, culminating in maintaining or transforming the attitude, in relation to the school rules, but at the same time, there could be also identified comprehensive programs, intended for the management of aggressive behaviors. Through the action of identifying the springs of aggression, we can actually combat violence.

80-83

Authors: Vasilica-Carina BANU

It is known that we live in a society dependent on communication, a process that is imposed as a necessity of the existence of the society, which, moreover, conditions it. Creating communication skills is important for developing the quality in education, for achieving school success as well as for social, professional integration of the individual in life. The lack of communication and interconnection skills can lead to difficulties in the social integration of the child of any age, that is why an increasing emphasis is now being placed on school activities aimed at developing these skills.

91-97

Authors: Oxana GOLUBOVSCHI

For centuries, translation tasks have been the main part of all exercises used in teaching and learning a foreign language, but the discipline of Translation is quite young. The article addresses the issue of defining the concept of translation and its use in ESL classes. The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the role of translation in language teaching and language learning. This paper investigates the role of techniques and methods dedicated to the development of translation skills, as well as the importance of developing translation competences in ESL classes, as translation training has received little attention.

105-109

Authors: Sergiu JELIHOVSCHII, Diana JELIHOVSCHII

The educational process in all European countries is based on digital and communication skills. Students are more involved and motivated if they apply directly their knowledge in real-life situations. Educational projects make the students understand the reason why they must learn daily and how their daily digital homework can improve the world or at least the community they live in. In this article, we took as an example the eTwinning project #FridaysForFuture@Schools, a collaboration between five countries and six schools, where they have applied Greta Thunberg’s campaign to solve environ¬mental problems. The students demonstrated sufficiently their communication and digital skills.

115-122

Authors: Svetlana TOLSTAIA

The information technology market is developing dynamically today, and the IT staff today is a large group of qualified human resources. Harnessing the potential of the IT industry requires increased attention to the psychological particularities of the representatives of different professions in the IT sphere.

129-133

Authors: Zinaida BOLEA, Ion CAȘCAVAL

The article analyzes the case study as a method of psychoanalytic research. The authors intend to analyze and clarify the epistemological status of the psychoanalytic case study and to present the development of the psychoanalytic research methodology. The authors of the article present the case study by referring to three psychoanalytic events during the development of this research method: 1) the case study, as presented in Freudian work and taken in post-Freudian texts; 2) case studies that formed the theory and technique of psychosomatic investigation of the Paris Psychosomatic School; 3) the approaches of the Ulm School through which the psychoanalytic case study is included in a methodological formula close to the positivist rigors of research.

140-148

Authors: Oxana PALADI

This article presents the characteristics of psychosocial adaptation and its components. There are described profiles of adolescent personality which denote adaptability and inadaptability and also the factors: mythomania / falsity, self-acceptance / self-non-acceptance; acceptance of others / non-acceptance of others; emotional comfort / emotional discomfort; internal control / external control; domination / obedience; avoidance of problems.

154-156

Authors: Olesea LUCHIAN

The content of the article provides an analysis of the authors’ opinions, which reflected, in theoretical and empirical scientific research, the concept of perfectionism from the perspective of its sources.

161-166

Authors: Татьяна ГРАУР

Internet addiction is widespread in modern society, and new digital technologies are capturing with astonishing speed the world of children and adolescents, who are most vulnerable to the formation of pathological enthusiasm for the Internet, which determines the scientific interest to wards this problem. This article presents the results of a study based on the characteristics of Internet addiction and personality traits in adolescents.

171-177

Authors: Valentina MIRON

The article examines the cognitive parameters of perfectionism in healthy people as compared to patients with gastro¬intestinal diseases, hypertension and type 1 diabetes, outlining certain specific manifestations for each group of patients. Garanean's questionnaire was used as a tool to measure perfectionism. It is frequently used by the Russian psychologists, but is barely known by specialists from other countries.

3-12

Authors: Natalia COJOCARU

This paper examines the sociogenesis of a polemic representation, paying close attention to the context of repre¬sen-ta¬tional production. By means of content analysis of the written press from 1988-89, it will be illustrated how this representation originated in a context that retained past ideological characteristics both at the level of discourse and social practices and how it was presented to the Other. In the perestroika period, the official Soviet discourse, even if it was change-oriented, was thematized in the framework of the typical wooden language, so that the new emancipated representation (about glasnost) would not contradict the hegemonic one (of socialist ideology). Social conflict escalated when a group of intel¬lectuals, taking advantage of the glasnost reform, engaged more seriously with the national issues and put forward this polemic representation, which opposed the hegemonic representation of the Soviet Communist Party. Based on in-depth interviews with participants in diverse protest actions from that period, I intended to elucidate how their polemic represen¬tation was initially shaped in confrontation with Others (those who did not share these beliefs), as well as how this was expressed at the level of intergroup relations, and how it is now presented by means of narrative discourses.

18-22

Authors: Olena BONDARCHUK

The article deals with the problem of the correlation between subjective well-being and psychological health of teachers. It is shown that the problem of the relationship between subjective well-being and health in general is characterized by both potentially extremely important findings, and also by pivotal research issues and questions. The basic principles of the study of psychological health are determined. The main criteria and indicators of psychological health are highlighted. Groups of factors of subjective well-being of teachers that are directly related to their psychological health are identified. Distinctive features of teachers that can negatively affect their psychological health and subjective well-being are identified. The expediency of monitoring the subjective well-being of teachers as an important condition of identifying and maintaining their psychological health in the extreme conditions of nowadays is shown.

28-32

Authors: Einas SHAMA DANIEL

The current article reflects some results of research that come up with several essential contributions to the im¬ple-men¬tation of effective integration process within the Physical Education framework, by focusing on the root of altering behaviour  by examining and daring to alter stigmatic attitudes which demand taking responsibility on one's own role as a living model for leading change and eventually, being prepared to restructure the school culture. Based on a special training programme, Physical Education teachers were exposed to and became familiar with the multi-diversity attitude changing model and we could see that they actually became able to reconsider and change their attitudes towards the students, providing live leadership models for their “regular” pupils to keep making change happen.

39-44

Authors: Angela POTÂNG, Carolina TRIGUB

This study aimed to investigate the problem of occupational stress, in general and to identify the stressors in the job of prosecutors from the Republic of Moldova in particular. The research identified the main stress factors in the prosecutors' work: organizational stressors, operational stressors, external and internal stressors, as well as stressors related to the future professional. Highlighting these sources would facilitate the efficient organization of the work, as well as give the possibility to act at with the view of promoting stress management strategies in the law enforcement area.

50-58

Authors: Natalia COJOCARU

This article examines how the COVID-19 pandemic is presented as a “sensitive object” and how this social object of representation generates “polemic social representations” (“polemic SR”) given the medical, social and religious controversies. To begin with, I will argue why the pandemic is a “sensitive object” and how this generates the elaboration of a new representation. Therefore, given that the representation of the pandemic is not well articulated in the social imaginary, I will analyse some aspects regarding the process of its elaboration (pre-existing representational contents, meanings attributed to new social practices, and implications of these social practices at the intergroup level) in order to outline some directions for the intended empirical study. I have looked, in particular, at three social practices that I consider defining in the construction of the representation of the pandemic, implicitly with intra- and intergroup effects: 1) mask wearing 2) physical distancing and 3) self-isolation. All three seem to be hardly integrated (for the time being) into the existing system of social practices.

63-68

Authors: Oxana PALADI, Tatiana LUNGU

This article is an important landmark in perceiving and understanding the role of will in directing the learning behaviours and learning activities in students. The starting premise is the concept of will as a process of behaviour regulation, which determines a person's ability to mobilize, concentrate and guide the nervous energy to achieve the intended goal. As a result, the content of this article addresses dimensions such as the meaning of the voluntary act and voluntary effort; the stages of the voluntary act, different theories about the voluntary act; the qualities of will, and approaches that underpin the importance of will in ensuring school's success. At the same time, the will is formed throughout life, and to achieve the desired results, it is necessary to practice will with the help of activities and constant exercise of voluntary efforts of various intensity, at the same time, shaping certain qualities that manifest themselves in personality traits.

77-83

Authors: Angela VERDEȘ

Communication is an essential attribute of the human group, but especially for preadolescents whose do¬minant activity during this period of development is the communication with peers. Preadolescent aggression is a key issue addressed by both teachers and parents and therefore, this topic of interest deserves further development and analysis. The present study examined aggression and communication styles in preadolescents. The study sample consisted of 90 5th, 6th and 7th grade preadolescent students. The three research hypotheses were verified, and the results allow us to state that preadolescents who are at different stages of schooling differ from each other in terms of forms of aggression; the 5th, 6th and 7th grade students differ in their communication styles; on supporting the existence of a relation¬ship between aggression and communication styles in preadolescents, especially related to the non-assertive style.

87-90

Authors: Olga GUȚU

In this study, we present the results of a theoretical analysis of international practices regarding the insurance of psychological activity in the general education system, especially in that of Belgium . The hierarchy and structure of the Commission of Psycho¬logists, the activity framework of the sectors and the contribution of the abilities of their members to the society are reviewed. We also argue the importance of knowledge of international practice in the analysis and restructuring of psycho¬logical activity for the Republic of Moldova. An important problem that has a great influence on psychological assistance is the establishment of those responsible for coordinating and monitoring the psychological activity. This aspect is well determined in psychological assistance in Belgium.

98-100

Authors: Cristina DOLINSCHI

The present study is a comparative theoretical analysis of language development in children from a gender perspective, with a predominant focus on two factors that directly contribute to shaping gender differences in the linguistic dimension: the neuropsychological factor and the family factor.

108-116

Authors: Mariana BATOG

The psychoemotional well-being of the pupils in the learning process is very important, and the school needs to provide a favourable and safe educational environment for their emotional health. We consider relevant the need to include in the normative and regulatory acts for education the provisions in order to strengthen the emotional psychological dimen¬sion, namely the emotional well-being of the pupils. Studies of national education policies confirm that education policies are unbalanced in this sense and give priority to the formation of other psychological dimensions than that of emotional well-being. The formation of affective availabilities becomes an important goal of education and a major task of school psychologists. The creation of new structures at the state level and the promotion of laws that will facilitate the work of psychologists in educational institutions is indispensable. At the same time, it is necessary to expand scientific research in order to study the particularities of the affectivity of pupils in new vital conditions, and the characteristics of the emotional sphere of pupils in response to new societal challenges.

123-127

Authors: Николаe БУКУН, Оксана ПАЛАДИ

The article describes the strategic directions valorized in the research and innovation domains in the Republic of Moldova and tackles the research dimensions of the theoretical and methodological bases of psychological activity assurance in the general education system from the perspective of contemporary societal approaches. They highlight the objectives, the novelty and originality of the proposed research, the expected scientific results, as well as their area of impact on society.

133-136

Authors: Юлия ЧАПЛИНСКАЯ

The article considers parasociality as a teacher's resource during the COVID-19 pandemic and distance learning. The author describes the five main illusory experiences that media consumers experience in parasocial relationships and draws analogies with the teacher-student interaction in distance learning. The article also provides examples of creative media practices that can improve the quality of distance learning.

141-145

Authors: Valentina BODRUG-LUNGU

This article addresses the issue of gender education. The findings and conclusions are made based on the analysis of real practices the subject being explored in a formal-non-formal-informal context. The experience gained shows that gender education must begin at the early stage of gender socialisation, in the childhood and must be continuous. In this sense, gender education must become part of both formal and non-formal, and informal education.

150-156

Authors: Mona-Lisa-Ștefania CIOBANU

In this article we intend to highlight certain opinions formulated by some leading thinkers of humanity from the past centuries - philosophers and theorists in the field of culture, civilization or educational sciences - on the issue of value in general, with emphasis on the fundamental values and their impact on shaping the paradigm of the educational ideal in different eras. Fully aware of the vastness of the topic that deserves an exhaustive research in a separate volume, we intend, for the time being, to have an initial approach to the subject matter, formulating some assertions in a rather prolegomenic/propaedeutic manner. We focused on the beginning of the modern epoch, because from then on pedagogy becomes more and more separated from philosophy, outlining a special discipline, with its own object of study, most often called the philosophy of education. Interesting to note that from the perspective of the subject under investigation, regardless of the name given to the disciplines dealing with education, the problem of fundamental values is a recurring one; likewise, their influence or contribution to building the paradigm of educational ideal in different epochs is enduring too.

162-169

Authors: Iulia MÎNDRESCU

The article addresses the formation of the elementary musical-artistic competences in the art school from the perspective of interculturality, which demands a specific educational strategy integrated in the Praxeological Model of teaching/learning and the Differentiated Learning Scheme. These are supported by a predominantly individualized and differentiated edu¬ca¬tional process of training onnected to the respective educational standards, while formation of the inter¬¬¬cultural competence on training evels is designed by applying an adequate repertoire of works for the study pro-cess¬.

174-181

Authors: Alexandra CLAPATIUC

In an attempt to answer the question “What is culture and why do we need it today?” in the context of contemporary education, the article examines the conceptual dimensions of the notion of culture in terms of different schools of thought, directions, theories, models and systemic interpretations of the humanities, including anthropology and philosophy of culture. Emphasizing the idea that human ontology is conditional on the cultural one, it is the culture that determines human becoming at the individual (personality) and collective (society) level, mediating the integrity, the originality of the personality and its creative potentialities. In the same vein, the article presents two fundamental concepts inherent to the cultural phenomenon such as: “value” - representing an ideal, a world to which the human being aspires and “style” - determinant of the unity of essential spiritual manifestations. Following the pedagogical valences of forming a complete personality and becoming human as a man and creator, the article elucidates the cultural phenomenon first of all as a manifestation of the spirit, congenital to the human being and immanent to the plastic definition of man. Returning to the area of current education, in the idea that the “school” is the most important social institute designed to highlight cultural phenomena in order to “cultivate the human spirit” and reveal the teleological essences of the human being, the article also discusses the effects of the “spiritual/cultural crisis” of postmodernity, marking as the main loss of contemporaneity - that of the “complete man”.

190-194

Authors: Ольга ИОВВА

The relevance of this study is due to the fact that in recent years all over the world there is an increase in the number of persons with disabilities, both adults and children. Child disability is therefore an indicator of population’s health decline. It is common knowledge that the health of the younger generation determines the reproductive capabilities of the nation and is a factor of national security playing a significant social role.