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This study investigates the evolution of national standardized tests in Romania, contextualizing these developments within international educational practices. Employing an exploratory, descriptive research methodology, the research is based on desk research and document analysis of relevant laws, regulations, and methodological guides. The primary objective is to provide a comprehensive overview of the regulatory changes and their impacts on assessment processes over the past decade and a half. The findings revea...

The European Union’s Agenda 2023 underscores its robust commitment to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a comprehensive and coordinated approach. This agenda focuses on integrating the SDGs into all EU policies and initiatives, ensuring that economic, social, and environmental dimensions are addressed simultaneously. Social sustainability is a critical dimension of sustainable development that focuses on maintaining and improving the well-being of current and future genera...

The study provides an overview of the pedagogical role of board games. In every section of it argues for the importance and role of them: in the first part it presents a short historical overview by offering evidences and examples of how they were used in different eras, starting from a couple of thousand years B. C. Another part of the article deals with the development of game theories and the perception of using board games for pedagogical aim. As it concludes from this section, these thoughts and ideas are als...

The article presents a pragmatical and practical solution in probably one of the most divergent interdisciplinary science fields, called social economy. As the size of it is impressive in Europe, operationalized by the number of organizations and the employees involved, there is a need from the professionals to build a common understanding and knowledge. The cultural, historical and economic background of the countries (mainly from EU, but not exclusively) led to various understanding of social economy. The soluti...

Mankind has always been preoccupied with the issue of sustainability. In today’s soc al context, however, it seems to be an increasingly important issue that what and how we produce can be sustained in the long run. This is not just a key issue for a market economy. This paper addresses the issue of sustainability that arises for organizations with different social missions. An international research project will be presented, dealing with sustainability management and green controlling in the social economy. Th...

Context: There are many scientific articles and studies, both at national and international level, analyzing the adolescents smoking behavior and its influencing factors. One could find much information from these studies about the adolescents smoking habits and about different prevention methods. The present article originality – at least in Romanian context – consists in two new dimensions: one is to analyse not only the smoking behavior of the adolescents, but also their exposure to second hand smoking (SHS...

The education of the social work and the recent history of the profession are approaching the 25th anniversary in Romania. The aim of the present paper is to offer a comprehensive review of the social worker profession in Romania. Although it describes the major milestones of the profession, it also points out the different problems the profession is confronting. The analysis incorporates three areas: educational, legal and societal. The paper concludes that despite of the experience accumulated, the education of ...

In the 21st century Romanian school teachers are more and more faced with the fact that pedagogical tools having stood the test of time now seem to fail in the context of continuous change of laws and standards in the educational field. Writing the program for the optional discipline means a challenge for them each year; they need competences in many areas of knowledge to fulfill the regulations of the new Law of Education (nr. 1/2011). The article presents the situation of the optional disciplines in urban area a...