
GIREP Seminar
2003
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The Bologna declaration has firmly supported the harmonizing of educational
systems in all the European countries. Romania along with the other
ex-communist countries has high expectances from the reform of education.
Since 1990 with its ups and downs the reform has strongly affect
the national curriculum and therefore the whole education system.
Firstly both professors and school physics teachers are seriously
concerned about, not way worried by the changing of the number of
the classes allocated to the school subjects and they are rather
skeptical about the continually changing contents of the various
curricula. A second reason for concern is the students performance
against the decreasing number of science classes in favor of the
social science. The change has initially affected the low secondary
school, which is compulsory.Then the wave of the reform has reached
the upper secondary school. The students have been expected to achieve
high schools performances whilst the number of classes has been decreasing
and the job market and the unemployment have been completely demotivating.The
academic study seems to have hit a minimum level as if it were at
low tide. Few young people still appear interested in building up
a career as schoolteacher. The student knowledge has been poorer
and poorer both at the entry examination and on graduation. The best
students have begun to take great interest in job offers from the
most remote places in the world.The present study is based on my
own observation and on pedagogical research and also on some conclusions
drowns from the START project, which took place in Romania under
the coordination of the British Council – Romania. The study
reveals the results of questionnaires about the Students, Trainers,
Teachers and Mentors needs for initial in service training. The results
of the above mentioned questionnaires together with interviews involving
the same people have shown that both the trainers and the mentors/teachers
are at ease speaking about their teaching experiences. They seem
to stress on the educational aspects of their experiences and they
rarely make any references to standards.
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