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The educational counseling, an integral part of the pedagogical correlation between educator and student, represents an important factor in preventing difficulties that can interfere with the psycho-social development of the student. Similarly, pastoral counseling, a component of the missionary activity performed by the Church, highlights the values of Christian Morality that are shared to all growing individuals, not only, but it has the purpose to correct the behavioural deviations and lackings, both spiritual and educational. Both educational and pastoral counseling are preoccupied, in the same manner, with the valorization of human dignity and quality, of free communication of one's emotions, experiences, aspirations, both personal and professional, of the responsibility of one's decisions, of the seriousness and competence in relation to one's problems. The present study proposes a comparative analysis of the notes defining the educational counseling and pastoral counseling in axiological and praxiological terms. Also, we wanted to highlight the necessity of a real collaboration between family, school and Church, to prevent parents-children conflicts. In this regard, we want to describe a case of educational and pastoral intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a research initiated in the period 2014-2015 at a rural school in Constanta, Romania. The research pursued achievement an investigation on the correlation between learning styles and academic performance of students. The research revealed the following: the student acquires information, interacts with the colleagues and the teachers, participates actively in solving of the various learning tasks, if used two or all learning styles. The teacher, as an educational advisor, has an important role in identifying educational experiences to optimize students' learning opportunities. The small group of subjects is an evident shortcoming of this research, but we intend to extend it to a larger number of subjects, from a greater number of schools, both rural and urban areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]