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EUROMENTOR JOURNAL STUDIES ABOUT EDUCATION Volume IX, No. 4/December 2018 EUROMENTOR JOURNAL 1 “Euromentor Journal” is published by “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University. Address: Splaiul Unirii no. 176, Bucharest Phone: (021) - 330.79.00, 330.79.11, 330.79.14 Fax: (021) - 330.87.74 E-mail: euromentor.ucdc @yahoo.com Euromentor Journal was included in IDB EBSCO, PROQUEST, CEEOL, INDEX COPERNICUS, CEDEFOP GLOBAL IMPACT FACTOR, ULRICH’S PERIODICALS DIRECTORY (CNCS recognized) 2 VOLUME IX, NO. 4/DECEMBER 2018 EUROMENTOR JOURNAL STUDIES ABOUT EDUCATION Volume IX, No. 4/December 2018 EUROMENTOR JOURNAL 3 ISSN 2068-780X Every author is responsible for the originality of the article and that the text was not published previously. 4 VOLUME IX, NO. 4/DECEMBER 2018 CONTENTS REFORMING CURRICULA: A PRELIMINARY STUDY IN SHAPING COMMUNICATION SCIENCES PROGRAMS IN ROMANIA ........................................................................................................................ 7 IULIA ANGHEL, ELENA BANCIU THE ROLE OF REIGN IN ASSERTING THE ROMANIAN STATEHOOD REFLECTED IN SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS. FROM THE ROMANIAN MEDIEVAL STATES TO THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL STATE. ..................................................................................................... 16 FLORENTINA BURLACU THE SACRIFICIAL SPIRIT - A BEHAVIORAL PATTERN IN THE POPULAR MENTALITY AND CHRISTIAN FAITH ............................................ 28 GABRIELA RUSU-PĂSĂRIN THE IMPORTANT NEED OF GENERAL ACCOUNTING AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING ............................................................................. 37 MARJA-LIISA TENHUNEN THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES - EMPIRICAL STUDY ............................................ 44 NICOLETA DUŢĂ ANDRAGOGY AND ESP: FROM A SURVEY IN HIGHER EDUCATION TO EMPLOYMENT PERSPECTIVES ............................................. 56 IRINA BOCIANU, DANA RADLER THE IRREPRESSIBLE OEDIPUS COMPLEX IN THE SEAGULL ....................... 72 ÖZLEM SAYAR EUROMENTOR JOURNAL 5 THE STIMULATION OF CHILD PSYCHOMOTRICITY BY PLAY AND MOVEMENT ....................................................................................................... 84 ANDREI DUMITRU ACTIVE-LEARNING FOR NONNATIVE-ENGLISH-SPEAKING STUDENTS ................................................................................................................... 105 RAISA NAZIR AHMED KAZI EXPERIMENT ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A MEDICAL RECOVERY PROGRAM FOR VULNERABLE ELDERLY PEOPLE ................. 112 ANDREI DUMITRU EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF EXTRACURRICULAR WORK IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ......................................................................... 123 HELENA MYSHAK DERIVATIONAL PROCESSES IN THE TERMINOLOGY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE ........................................................................................ 129 YURII ROZHKOV 6 VOLUME IX, NO. 4/DECEMBER 2018 REFORMING CURRICULA: A PRELIMINARY STUDY IN SHAPING COMMUNICATION SCIENCES PROGRAMS IN ROMANIA IULIA ANGHEL, [email protected] ELENA BANCIU [email protected] Abstract: Major changes occurred within the field of communication culture subsequent to digitalisation phenomena started to exert belated effects upon curricula architecture, educational policies and teaching designs of many fields of humanistic studies. This type of adjourned modernization of Higher Education originates in a complex nexus of reasons, including factors as conservative cultural backgrounds, teachers beliefs in technology integration practices and students barriers to adopting new interactive and independent learning strategies. The present article reflects the preliminary results generated by an applied research concerning the students’ perceptions upon reformation and adaption of communication studies curricula in the context of digitalisation and issued from four workshops, carried under the aegis of Bucharest City Hall and the Ecological University of Bucharest. Keywords: curricula, communication sciences programs, education policies, educational reform, digitalization of education. 1. Setting the frame: Changing landscape of communication studies Digitalization wave triggered after 2010 enhanced complex subsidiary phenomena such as deterritorialisation of cultures and identities, increasing mobility of people between places and groups1 and rise of innovative social environments liberated by constriction of individuals’ direct interactions. The anthropological turn fostered by digitalization contained Lecturer, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Ecological University of Bucharest. Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences, Ecological University of Bucharest. 1 Eds. Peter Auer, Jürgen Erich Schmidt, Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation, vol. 1, Berlin & NY: Walter de Gruyter, 2010, p. 52. EUROMENTOR JOURNAL 7 new understandings of seminal notions as subjectivity2, genesis of group identities, limits and legitimacy of state authority or dynamics of disruptive modernities3. No matter whether if we take into account the dissolution of classical national, political and cultural boundaries generated by new experiences of virtual communities and social networks or we discuss the reconfigurations of global trade and geopolitical balance, the digitalization opened the road for a renegotiation of cultural contracts. Stating that nowadays “market are conversation”4, digitalization contributed to the emergence of a post-Guttenberg civilizational frame, within the bounds of which the message becomes the key vector in establishing and circulating meanings. By rephrasing Marshal McLuhan’s influential quote, due to “the medium is the message”5, into a whole new semiotic equation claiming that “the message reconstructs the medium”, contemporary reform of communication may engage also reconstruction of spheres as statehood, education, citizenship and political participation. Birth of a unique lingua franca of globalization, placed under auspices of westernization paradigm, enhanced previous disparities between centres and peripheries, developed and undeveloped societies and in the long run, the discordance and representational cleavages amid younger and older generations. Distant events and processes become part of our living experience6, increasing tendency towards mediatization7 influencing the widely spread of patterned beliefs, behavioural models, and different information exchange normativity. The cultural oikumene associated to globalization allows unrelated individuals, separated by national borders, income asymmetries and different social backgrounds to become equal promoters of civic, environmentalist or reformist agendas and movements. The 2 Anthony Giddens, “The Rise and Fall of New Labour”, New Perspectives Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 3, 2010, p. 33. 3 S.N. Eisenstadt, “Multiple Modernities”, Daedalus, vol. 129, n. 1, 2000, p. 2. 4 Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Cluetrain Manifesto, NY: Basic Books, 2009, p. 20. 5 Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Signet Books, 1964, p. 3. 6 Eds. George Ritzer, The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2016, p. 190. 7 The contemporary phase of mediatization processes refers to the growing independence of media logic in front of political logic, media cultural syntax becoming gradually the dominant benchmark in reconstructing reality. Jesper Strömbäck, “Four Phases of Mediatization: An Analysis of the Mediatization of Politics”, The International Journal of Press and Politics, Vol 13, Issue 3, 2008, p. 239. 8 VOLUME IX, NO. 4/DECEMBER 2018 tremendous complexity of digital globalization, doubled by a glocal response, may call for reflection as regards the future role and accountability of communication practice. Furthermore, the aftertime of communication studies programs presents itself as intrinsically linked by presence of new ethical and methodological challenges. In this very context, some critical questions tend to detach: What should it be the key terms in reconstructing educational curricula of Communication, Cultural and Media studies? Should we give full credit to a technology-based approach in teaching communication and public relations? Or, there still are arguments for maintaining the traditional teacher-oriented model? There is a historical resilience of conservative perspective in Higher Education, especially in Eastern Europe? Under omen of “invented traditions”8 a new globalist youth culture emerged, announcing simultaneously the “death of distance”9 and an age of “technostruggles”10. In this very context, the applied research project aimed to explore the perceptions of Romanian students enrolled in communication and public relations academic programs, about the reformation of curricula and further adaption of educational policies to the professional and cultural claims of digital ecosystems. The workgroup reunited undergraduate and post-graduate students from Faculty of Communication Sciences, Ecological University of Bucharest and contributed to drafting of a response strategy on modernization and methodological adaption of communication and public relations academic programs. The debates followed topics as curricula structure, use of new technologies, teaching processes design, use of material resources and networking opportunities. 2. Context of research. Project description. The research project was initiated under patronage of The Center for Youth of Bucharest City Hall and