The introduction of appreciative intervention methods at the organizational level as a discipline in the academic curriculum of the masters program “Supervision and Social Planning” is a starting point for the development of this methodology in various areas of social practice (Sandu, 2010). The experimental educational program “Appreciative Seminars” was implemented within the discipline Appreciative intervention methods at the organizational level in the program noted above. The initiative came from Mr. Dr. Antonio Sandu, of the Faculty of Philosophy and Social and Political Sciences, “Al. I. Cuza” University in Iasi, who has supported in the academic year 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 the mentioned discipline in close collaboration with Mr. Assoc. Professor Ph. D. Stefan Cojocaru, head masters program and at the same time the one who introduced the appreciative methods in the academic curriculum from Romania.appreciative semminars, appreciative education, appreciative teaching, appreciative Inquiry.

Bianca VLASA

Simona PONEA

English

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Appreciative seminars. Appreciative teaching of Appreciative Inquiry 
 
Simona PONEA, Bianca VLASÃ 
Revista Românească  pentru Educaţie Multidimensională, 2010, Year 2, No. 4, 
August, pp: 93-98 
 
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Appreciative seminars.  
Appreciative teaching of Appreciative Inquiry 
 
Simona PONEA1 
Bianca VLASÃ 2 
 
The introduction of appreciative intervention methods at the 
organizational level as a discipline in the academic curriculum of the masters 
program "Supervision and Social Planning" is a starting point for the 
development of this methodology in various areas of social practice (Sandu, 
2010).  
The experimental educational program "Appreciative Seminars" was 
implemented within the discipline Appreciative intervention methods at the 
organizational level in the program noted above. The initiative came from Mr. 
Dr. Antonio Sandu, of the Faculty of Philosophy and Social and Political 
Sciences, "Al. I. Cuza” University in Iasi, who has supported in the academic 
year 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 the mentioned discipline in close collaboration 
with Mr. Assoc. Professor Ph. D. Stefan Cojocaru, head masters program and at 
the same time the one who introduced the appreciative methods in the academic 
curriculum from Romania. 
Developing the appreciative methods in all these areas is based on giving 
up the deficiency paradigm and focus of the students on a successful paradigm 
centered on the positive, both in social practice and in their own development 
(Sandu, 2010). To be trained for the purposes of the paradigmatic 
transformation mentioned, the educational process envisages an innovative 
teaching methodology which comes from appreciative pedagogy and andragogy 
and named by Mr. Antonio Sandu "appreciative seminars through collaborative 
creative strategies." The principles envisaged in the construction of the 
appreciative seminars through collaborative creativity were: 
 Learning as Celebration; 
 Research as Celebration; 
                                                 
1 Simona PONEA – Researcher Assistent at Lumen Research Center in Humanistic Sciences, 
Ia i, Phone number 0044 758 362 1136, e-mail simonaponea@gmail.com 
2 Bianca VLASÃ - Assistant Researcher at Lumen Research Center in Humanistic Sciences, 
Phone 0040 767 24 30 52, Email Adress beatrice_vls@yahoo.com 
 
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 Empowerment through partnership in education (student is seen as 
the central character of the educational process based on co-creation 
of excellence in education) (Sandu, 2010). Students and teachers are 
partners with legal rights in a collaborative creative process with the 
purpose of generating knowledge and value in the sphere of 
knowledge. 
The idea to archive this volume starts from the need to implement an 
appreciative assessment of quality and success of the work made by the master 
program students inside the seminar that we went through together in the spirit 
of partnership in education”. The student’s seminar task was to achieve a 
theoretical or practical research focusing on the side of the applied appreciative 
methodology in the most varied aspects of it. 
Students were offered to carry out this research leaving from academic 
standards, namely: the existence of a methodological design of research for 
articles with applicative nature, the existence and clear presentation of the 
critical apparatus and bibliography in a scientific manner based on specific 
citation standards APA model (this assumes that the authors cited to be written 
in brackets, immediately after the quotation or paraphrase performed, followed 
by year of books and page where the reference appears). To provide a scientific 
contribution students were asked to support public research to the colleagues in 
the manner expected of a scientific conference having as pattern the academic 
standards proposed by Thompson ISI (the existence of group of selection and 
validation of the proposed research binding discussions on papers presented), so 
each paper must be accompanied by two Peer Reviews from some colleagues 
who expressed their views (we suggesting it upon all undergraduate as the Peer 
Review to exercise their appreciative intelligence pointing where applicable the 
innovations and value addition made by the article) (Sandu, 2010). 
 
The articles of the students regarded: 
 Theoretical issues on appreciative inquiry (Baciu, 2010). The author 
presents the advantages of using appreciative inquiry and the 
applicability of this model, citing among others the need for 
discovery and understanding of positive forces, creating 
opportunities and building new approaches. 
 Developing an appreciative methodology of working with vulnerable 
people (Ponea, 2010). This new method brings a new perspective on 
the concept of partnership in "self-development" of the organizing 
team and the group and intervention group clients. Appreciative 
socialization group proposes a passing through 4D model extended 
and the identification of success stories of all of the disabled people 
and then overcome vulnerability and self- vulnerability which was 
originally intended.  
 
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 Appreciative Theology (Nic i, 2010), analysis of the Biblical text, 
highlighting the importance of happiness in social transformation 
theology, and understanding of Christianity as a waiver to vetero 
Testament retributive paradigm and replace it with affirmative ethics 
(Sandu, 2010), generated by the prospect of salvation (Nic i, 2010). 
The author argues that "appreciative inquiry is a progressive search 
and recovery of what is best in people, what is positive in their social 
organizations and in the reality around them” and even more than 
that "is the most faithful expression and well articulated appreciative 
approach in the daily life of a Christian, but also the famous sermon 
of Jesus Christ known as The Nine Beatitudes". 
 Appreciative Public Discourse (Bradu, 2010). The author makes a 
brief analysis of the frequency of appearance of "negative news" 
versus "positive news" highlighting some of their effects. According 
to the author, mass media "bombs" the public predominantly with 
negative news, giving rise to stress, but she also provides examples 
of best practice such as Good News Agency. 
 Appreciative management of the employer (Ailinc i, 2010), 
appreciative leadership, the correlation between the Placebo, 
Hawthorne and Pygmalion effects and the appreciative 
reconstruction of reality. The article presents information on the 
"appreciative employees" who share their stories, knowledge and 
values (Ailinc i, 2010). 
 Transformation of attitudes, personal development, career 
management and "destiny", cognitive transformation by removing 
the deficiency paradigm and using creative autosuggestion (Vlas , 
2010). For a better analysis of personal behavior and for an easier 
adaptation to the philosophy of appreciative methods the author 
uses as a frame reference the movie "The Secret", which is mainly 
based on the "law of attraction" and its power to bring positive in 
everyday life. 
 Appreciative medicine (Sandu, 2010). "The fundamental 
transformation proposed by the appreciative therapy is moving our 
attention from the disease, as a state of disarray of the living system, 
to that of order called perfect health." We believe that using such an 
approach "releases" the patient from distress which often enhances 
the physical pain caused by disease. 
 Appreciative parental education (Croitoru, 2010). Family, like any 
other social systems of reference of the society "needs help and 
support." Achieving this through identifying appreciative methods 
 
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maximizes the strengths, opportunities and ways to "become better 
parents for our children. 
 Appreciative education (Nicolaescu, 2010) and appreciative 
pedagogy focusing on successful experiences of students and 
trainers, a model in 12 steps for school success through positive 
appreciative thinking (Nicolaescu, 2010). The author proposes the 
implementation of theoretical and practical elements of appreciative 
methods at the beginning of the training - the school 
 
The development of this volume was an „exercise of appreciative 
assessment of potential of the young students, many of whom could later 
become a valuable researcher in social sciences”. 
In preparing the volume, the students participated in a specific manner 
of collaborative creativity as authors of (coauthors), peer reviewers, editors and 
book publishers. Rallying to the specific of collaborative creativity, the 
coordinator of the volume, Mr. Dr. Antonio Sandu made in addition to a 
theoretical introduction to a series of appreciative methods, a series of 
"appreciation exercises" of the new and innovative elements of each article and 
the research perspectives described by it. Comments are inserted immediately 
into the edge of the text in a special column to deliver to the reader the image of 
appreciative dialogue underlying the collaborative creativity seminars (Sandu, 
2010). 
After the end of this volume in the same "program of developing 
research skills and appreciative intervention” Master students had the 
opportunity to apply appreciative interviews and to conduct appreciative focus 
groups, in the research of the "occupational standard model for the occupation 
of supervisor in social services" in the framework of group supervision practice, 
achieved in collaboration with the Romanian Association of Supervision in 
Social Domain – ARSDS - where many of the masters program students are 
members.  
The Master program students had the opportunity to participate in a 
training of trainers program with elements of appreciative inquiry, implemented 
by Lumen Association in partnership with ARSDS and Culture House of 
students, with funding from the Ministry of Youth and Sports. 
Master program students were also involved in some research articles 
based on appreciative methods such as: 
 The article: Perspective epistemice si axiologice in supervizarea 
apreciativa [Epistemic and axiological perspectives in appreciative 
supervision]  (Bradu Sandu, 2009); 
 Evaluarea apreciativ  a programelor de training. Studiu de caz: 
Centrul de Consultan    i Training Lumen [Appreciative 
 
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evaluation of training programs. Case study: Lumen Consulting 
and Training Center]  (Sandu, Ponea, Cojocaru, 2010); 
 Appreciative pragmatic - public discourse (conference) (Sandu, 
Bradu, 2009) etc. 
Many of the students participating in these appreciative seminars 
through collaborative creativity techniques are currently involved in preparing 
the dissertations for masters program with themes from appreciative methods 
including: Supervision meeting – an appreciative approach (Vlas , 2010), and 
Appreciativity and the evaluation of the appreciative degree (Bunea, 2010), 
Appreciative group socialization (Ponea, 2010) etc. 
In light of experience, the first year students of the same program 
master are involved in a new cycle of appreciative seminars based on 
collaborative creativity, making already a theoretical or applicative research in 
appreciative methods domain. 
 
References: 
 
Ailinc i, A., (2010) Ancheta apreciativ   i efecte ale comunic rii 
manageriale [Appreciative Inquiry and the Effect of Managerial 
Communication], în Sandu, A., (2010) Seminarii apreciative/ 
Appreciative Seminars, Editura Lumen, 35-48 
Baciu, C., (2010) Ancheta apreciativ  - metod  a schimb rii 
organiza ionale [Appreciative Inquiry – Organizational 
Development Method], în Sandu, A., (2010) Seminarii apreciative/ 
Appreciative Seminars, Editura Lumen, 21-34 
Bradu, O., Sandu, A., (2009) Perspective epistemice  i axiologice în 
supervizarea apreciativ  [Epistemic and axiological perspectives in 
appreciative supervision], in Revista de Cercetare  i interven ie social / Review 
of Research and Social Intervention, no. 24/ 2009, Lumen, Ia i    
Bradu, O., (2010) Pragmatica apreciativ  în discursul public- Metode 
apreciative în marketingul social [Appreciative Pragmatic in Public 
Discourse. Appreciative Methods in Social Marketing], în Sandu, 
A., (2010) Seminarii apreciative/ Appreciative Seminars, Editura Lumen, 
49-60 
Cojocaru,  t., Sandu, A., Ponea, S., (2010) Evaluarea apreciativ  a 
programelor de training. Studiu de caz: Centrul de Consultan    i 
Training Lumen [Appreciative evaluation of training programs. 
 
PONEA, S., VLASA, B., (2010) Appreciative seminars.Appreciative teaching of Appreciative Inquiry, 
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Case study: Lumen Consulting and Training Center], in Social 
Research Reports, vol. 8/ 2010, Editura Expert Project, Ia i 
Croitoru, C., (2010) Educa ia parental  Metod  de interven ie apreciativ  
în Asisten a Social  [Parental Education. Appreciative Intervention 
Method in Social Work Practice], în Sandu, A., (2010) Seminarii 
apreciative/ Appreciative Seminars, Editura Lumen, 73-98 
Nic i, F., (2010) Paradigma pozitiv  a Fericirilor în contextul social de 
ast zi [Positive Paradigm in Happiness in today’s Social Context], 
în Sandu, A., (2010) Seminarii apreciative/ Appreciative Seminars, 
Editura Lumen, 125-134 
Nicolaescu, A., (2010) Metodologia apreciativ  în educa ie. Influen a 
gândirii pozitive asupra rezultatelor  colare [Appreciative 
Methodology in Education. The Influence of Positive Thinking in 
Academic Results], în Sandu, A., (2010) Seminarii apreciative/ 
Appreciative Seminars, Editura Lumen, 99-114 
Ponea S., (2010) Integrarea social  a persoanelor cu dizabilit  i din 
perspectiva metodelor apreciative. Grupul de socializare apreciativ 
- Modelul BACH [Social Integration of People with Disabilities 
from an Appreciative Perspective. Appreciative Socialization 
Group - BACH Model], în Sandu, A., (2010) Seminarii apreciative/ 
Appreciative Seminars, Editura Lumen, 135-143 
Sandu, A., (2010) Ancheta apreciativ  în dezvoltarea organiza ional  
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A., (2010) Seminarii apreciative/ Appreciative Seminars, Editura Lumen, 
13-20 
Sandu, A., (2010) O abordare afirmativ-apreciativ  în medicin  [An 
Affirmative-Appreciative Approach in Medicine], în Sandu, A., 
(2010)  Seminarii apreciative/ Appreciative Seminars, Editura Lumen, 
115-124 
Vlas , B., (2010) Miracol, noroc sau gândire apreciativ ? [Miracle, Luck or 
Appreciative Thinking?], în Sandu, A., (2010) Seminarii apreciative/ 
Appreciative Seminars, Editura Lumen, 61-72 
 
 
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