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This study offers a perspective upon the main directions of interpreting the concept of personal development, starting with hedonistic approach, followed by humanistic approach, then by a different meaning - satisfaction with life. Significant studies upon the concept are presented and also their implications upon mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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From a theoretical perspective, this study synthetically presents the main paradigms/models for future teachers' training, which have been globally developed throughout the past decades, as well as the current teacher training model in Romania. On these grounds, the applicative ascertaining research that we have conducted had in view two main objectives: 1. The analysis of the performances obtained by future teachers during their initial training programme (at TTD, the Department of Teacher Training) and at certification exams; 2. The efficiency measurement for this programme accounts for a direct relation between the graduates' results and the didactic profession standards. The research findings confirm the research hypotheses and point at the performances obtained by subjects throughout their initial training program for the didactic profession, as well as during their certification exam. There is a significant positive correlation between the TTD graduation general average grade and the average grade obtained by students at the certification exam, based on their portfolio assessment. The correlation indices between the diverse variables taken into account reveal significant differences between the students' performances on the certification exam depending on the gender variable. There are also notable specialization-dependent variations in the general average grades obtained by students along the initial training program, as well as major differences (in 9 out of the 10 comparisons made) from one specialization to another, between the average grades obtained at the portfolio-based certification exam, in which the students in Letters obtained the best results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assuring the quality of the initial and continuous training programs for teaching stuff implies a constant effort for thoroughgoing studying of the theories, researches and models that have been developed at a global level, and also conceiving certain programs of suitable politics within this domain. Starting with the 80s, among the most popular paradigms of the reflexive practitioner was the one elaborated by Schön. The most important consequences of developing and spreading the paradigm are: transposing it to the educational politics and substantiating the initial training programs on professional standards which correspond to the general competences; rethinking the initial training programs and directing them towards practice and competences of educators; integrating standards during the teachers certification exams; providing an adequate methodology in order to solve many problems that present education confronts with. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper analyzes the Romanians attitude towards emigration and Romanian emigrants. The sample consists of 1376 participants, and the variables taken into consideration are: gender, age, level of education and area of residence. The instrument built and used is the scale of attitudes towards emigration. First of all, the paper identifies the hierarchy of 10 components of the attitude towards emigration, in the perception of respondents. The second step of this study was to group the attitude towards emigration in: positive and negative. Interesting differences appear in attitudes according to the demographic variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The approach of analyzing the actual system for evaluation and certification the studies for the didactical career must start with preliminary conditions which lead toward certification, namely from the actual programs of initial training for teachers, including: goals of training, competences, the curricula and the strategies of teaching - learning - evaluating. Our study intends to analyze the actual model of evaluating the professional competences of beginning teachers through the definitive exam in educational system. The comparative analysis of several models of certification for teachers, based on professional standards (USA, France, Great Britain, and Romania) offers us the possibility of identifying common and different elements in establishing „the reference point of competences and qualities of the teacher”. The research was undertaken on a sample of 80 Sports teachers and aimed the following goals: * Identifying the aspects of continuity between the program of initial training of future teachers and the probation time; * Establishing possible correlations regarding the criteria and indicators for evaluating the professional competences of beginning teachers, licensed in Sports, during the special inspection and of those aimed within the definitive exam in educational system; * Pointing out the advantages and limits of the actual system for initial training of teachers and of the certifying the competences, also of passing the definitive exam in the educational system; * Suggesting the possible methodology of certifying the competences for beginning teachers and of passing the definitive exam in the educational system, including techniques and instruments validated by the educational practice and by domain researches undertaken on a global level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]