Times of Change for the Romanian System of Education - A Summary of Sources and Resources

AuthorBota, O. A.
PositionDoctoral researcher, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest
Pages161-168
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov • Vol. 5 (54) No. 1 - 2012
Series VII: Social Sciences • Law
TIMES OF CHANGE FOR THE ROMANIAN
SYSTEM OF EDUCATION – A SUMMARY
OF SOURCES AND RESOURCES
Oana A. BOTA1
Abstract: The indisputable feature of the contemporary society is change,
which determines some opportune response mechanisms of an adaptive type (as
a consequence of some revaluated flexibility) or, on the contrary, inopportune,
such as confusion, instability or inconsistency (as a consequence of some
functional or structural rigidity). At the level of the system and process, the
specialists in the field are debating the educational reality, in trying to grasp the
position held by education in the light of the numerous transformations
experienced by the contemporary society. The present paper stands as a concise
lecture, whose main subject is concerned with the issues of the progress or
regress of the Romanian educational system.
Key words: change, educational system, teaching system, reform.
1 Doctoral researcher, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest.
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1. Introduction
The phenomenon felt with an
increasingly pronounced frequency is that
of the transformative d ynamism, whether
the reference to it is holistic, general (at the
society level) or the perspective is focused
on the individual, o n the entity (on the
personal level). What are the causes of
change? What is changing? How is the
change happening? – those are just a few
questions arising from the desire to cr eate
a theoretical framework/context that could
be favorable to the configuration of a
coherent set of interventions, subordinated
to a specific purpose: the management of
progress.
Understood as adjustment, the change
represents the exigency of any society
found in a continuous evolutive process;
we are the witnesses of an era of
computers and multimedia systems – and
the technical and scientific revolution
brings real gains and developments within
different areas and structures of society.
The latter is made of human beings and
becomes really beneficent only when it
helps and supports the individual revaluate
and valorize his or her personal aptitudes
and potentialities that may eventually
inscribe i n the pattern of a happy, quality
life, both personally and professionally.
Although the progress from the
technological, material, intellectual and
political perspective is becoming more and
more evident, at a thorough analysis, these
effects of the change are still inducing
weak opportunities to improve the
individual’s mental health state and assure
the personal stability and security,
happiness and reason.

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