Marioara Popescu.
Bucharest

Some Ideas in Current Situation in our Country

    We are at ten years distance from 1990, year of Change. This year is started preparation for European Union . What does people think about in my country?
    So, they are confused. We want to make changes but our unconscious behavior is although the same as many years ago. Why? And what can we do?
    Some Situations are roots in communism, other are new situations created after 1990. Perhaps the second situations are more interesting.
    Is it possible to implement European models? The answer is difficult. Yes and No m the some time. Yes because we must try and in general way occidental democratic society are the best known until today, and no because we have so many differences and we must keep them if we want to be ourselves.
    The first problem in our mentality is that communism effect is the destruction of human values and separation of groups. To understand that work and fair work is the key of success is very hard for many peoples especially for rromi. To change attitude is our important clue. It is a mistakes to talk about equality without difference. In schools everybody knew that we began a comprehensive reform. But peoples do not agreed entirely, especially old teachers. Of course there are good tradition that must be protected, but our young prefer other kind of teaching, prefer to go and work far away with many risks.
    How can we make the schools better for all children? The first step was to recognize that human being are differently, and we must promote the pluralism as an educational politics. We try to support development of alternative schools as Waldorf, Montessori, Step by Step. These situations create new conflicts as example that between alternative and traditional schools. Competition is not usually accepted before 1990.
    In this very moment we have many private schools initiated and supported by many different ONG's.

Changing the character of education

1. Passing on an eminently reproductive education to learning as problem solving;
2. Resuming learning during class hours and reducing the dependency of schools success on the parallel education;
3. The reform of examination by reducing the number of examinations, selecting of the relevant Knowledge, using modern technologies, heightening the confidence in obtained evaluations;
4. The reform of system of Knowledge evaluation aiming at comprehensive assessment of student's Knowledge.
5. The application of new National Curriculum, the internationalisation of the teaching programmes, optional disciplines.
6. Continuing education becomes an integrant part of study programme in high schools, vocational, colleges and Faculties
7. Rural education gains fresh impetus.
8. High school profiles are to be redirected function of the market economy
9. Expansion of alternative education
10. Concentration of quality private education and the application of the authorisation procedures by the National Commission of Evaluation and Accreditation in Pre- academic Education.
11. Expansion of studies in the mother tongue
12. The assistance of local authorities is required in point of schools building
13. The family must be involved in decision-making process.
14. An IT programme is being implemented in schools a high schools.

    We are trying to identify effective solutions to the abovementioned problem Let me get back to the same questions is required and is feasible in our country?
    The great difficulties that educational reform is facing is the low level of funding allocated by the Government for support and development of the educational infrastructure, the acquisition of new assets equipment, and the payment of attractive wages to didactic personal.
    In Romania we need a different education system, one that is supported by society. The core wages of teachers must be set only with reference to education system, but also at budgetary level. Given a modified economical status, the scope of teaching assignment must again be focused on permanent training, the rol of latter in the educational a scheme, and its specific impact on society.
    We need new technology in education. The national and local budget must immediately be made to include the sums needed for building up the educations at primary as well as the academic level. The ramifications of educations system, based on the needs and the development of the economy as well as social and cultural life, go on. The sooner we abandon the present centralised and egalitarian system, thus giving natural autonomy and subsequent responsibility back to the schools, the high schools an autonous use of scholarships, granted though national and international competition, has to be littered from burocratic obstructions.
    We need an education system that is focused on values. The relativist mentality according to which any value is relative to its context connotes support profound reform, nor can it motivated the indispensable efforts of performance. On the other hand, value are manipulated by ideologists and, by so doing, we have no sufficient reason to disqualify them as value. It is time to clear up value situation in the education system once and for all. Education for private life becomes important. Punctuality, veracity, discipline required for performance, respect for one's neighbour as a human being, helps for those need receptivity to evidence, are all values that deserve to be nurtured in educating everywhere and in all circumstances must learn from the very truth that the individual freedoms of the modern world includes responsibility, that only together can freedom and solidarity generate a rational community.
    We need an educational system that is compatible with the other European system, and in that way, is internationalised. The traditional of The Romanian education system, as it existed between the Two World Wars need to be renovated in terms so simplicity (in the positive sense) of its structure, its transparency and direct compatibility with Euro-American structures. At the same time, the substantial dynamic in education taking place in the countries of reference is worth considering. Education paved the Way for European Unification.

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