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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper delves into the main dimensions of ethnography today. According to common sense, ethnography is understood as a domain that deals with the description or with the study of humankind's lifestyles in different cultures. This fact is true, but not exhaustive. In order to demonstrate this statement, this article will deal with some dimensions of the contemporary ethnographic research field: the ethnographic study as an instrument for becoming acquainted with the traditional events, the ethnographic method in social sciences and a relation between ethnography and mass-media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spatial abilities are divided into three categories: mental rotation, spatial relation and visualization. Several tests are cited in foreign literature that are frequently used in order to assess these abilities, but for Romanian specialists they are not on hand. The present paper is introducing new assessment tools for static spatial abilities that were successfully used along with already validated instruments. Data on statistical qualities of the new instruments are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on problems of individual and social identity-construction in the context of globalization. The author analyses the concept of identity from modernity and post-modernity perspectives. As a conclusion the author claims that a new approach strategy of defining and interpreting the epoch of globalization is necessary in order to explain and understand the social changes at local, regional and world levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]