Trying to Understand Curriculum in the New Millennium

This paper is focused on presenting curriculum as a core issue of any educational reform, and as a very controversial concept. Two core concepts are underlined within curriculum definitions: learning situation and learning experience and their complementary relation is analyzed. The pyramidal model of curriculum is explained as a new approach. All this presentation aims to present a point of view about the thorny issue of curriculum and it tries to synthetically put together different approaches of the topic in modern and post-modern society. The necessity to rethink and enlarge the competence concept represents a conclusion which could be the basis of a further more detailed analysis of the curriculum development

THE PRESENCE OF THE ROSA CANINA IN DIFFERENT PLANT COMMUNITIES IN ROMANIA

A principal objective of this study was to summarise the presence and distribution of the Rosa canina in the different plant communities in Romania. The Rosa canina species and its inter-taxa were identified in the 60 plant communities. The Rosa canina species and inter-taxa are included in various types of NATURA 2000 Habitats.Rosa canina are characteristic for the alliances Berberidion Br.-Bl. 1950 (Prunion spinosae Soó (1930) n.n 1940). In this paper also are referenced of the corology, ecology, phytocoenologie of plant communities with Rosa canina, as well as their conservation status

THE BIODIVERSITY STUDY OF SOME ROSA CANINA L. GNEOTYPES FROM OLTENIA AREA

In this paper there was studied the variability of some morphological characters from Rosa canina genotypes of 20 local populations from different areas from central and northern part of Oltenia, Valcea County, and also plant association where there were found those ones. The results werestatistically interpreted byanalysis of variance, PearsonCorrelationsandPCA(PrincipalComponent Analysis). There were indentified 3 populations groups: first group with 6 genotypes with high values for both shoot length and flower diameter; second group with 9 genotypes and has low values for both shoot length and for the flower diameter (both negative components) and third group with 5 genotypes and has low values for shoot length and high values for flower diameter. The great variability indentified inside of studied populations is probably caused by the altitude and the phytosociological associations

Centred learning strategies in initial training of psychologists

AbstractBologna process wanted to determine a global higher education system reform in many European countries. This reform involves a structural change and an in depth curriculum reform as well. A curricular vision means to focus on competencies the entire process of curriculum design. A new strategy of psychologists’ initial training was considered. Three learning practices were presented. A special questionnaire was applied to 72 students, aiming to evaluate their opinion regarding the formative effect of these methods. The results of this analysis demonstrate that these methods succeeded to develop the students’ autonomy and responsibility in learning

An Effective Learning Environment for Training Future Professionals Including the Field of Politics and Public Administration

AbstractAn unresolved debate about possibilities for the pre-service training of politicians but an emphasized necessity of an effective professional training for public administration are bases for our research focused on finding solutions for an efficient development of a so called committed learning style over onto-genesis process. Our work analyzed 200 students over several academic years revealing eight core traits of this studying style within an effective learning environment with a significant impa ct on developing competencies useful for a further activity within political or public administration areas