cultural diversity in art and education developing

International Scientific Conference

The VIII-th Edition

CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN ART AND EDUCATION – developing intercultural skills

Workshop: cultural diversity in photography

ROMANIAN ACADEMY – Branch of Iaşi

“Gh. Zane” Institute of Economic and Social Research

Cultural diversity in art and education – 2017

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P R O G R A M M E

930 - 1000 - Registration - AULA of Romanian Academy, Iași Branch.

Bdul Carol I, nr. 8, Iași.

1000 - 1130 - Official opening, AULA of Romanian Academy, Iași Branch.

1130 - 1200 - Musical recital - Duo Dolcissime:

Cristina Simionescu-soprana și Brîndușa Tudor - pian.

1200 - 1230 - Coffee break

1300 -1430 - Paper presentation. Part I:

Section I: AULA of Romanian Academy, Iași Branch.

and

Section II: The Small Hall of the Academy, Iași Branch.

1430 - 1500 - Launch break

1500 - 1700 - Paper presentation. Part II:

Section I: AULA of Romanian Academy, Iași Branch.

and

Section II: Workshop, The Small Hall of the Academy, Iași

Branch.

Workshop: Library Hall.

1900 - 1930 - Official closure.


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ORGANIZER:

ROMANIAN ACADEMY – Branch of Iaşi

“Gh. Zane” Institute of Economic and Social Research

CO-ORGANIZERS:

"Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania: Teacher Training

Department.

„Alecu Russo” Bălți State University, Republic of Moldova, Faculty

of Education Sciences, Psychology and Arts.

State University "Ion Creangă", Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.

“George Enescu” National University of Arts from Iaşi, Teacher

Training Department.

”George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iaşi, Romania, Faculty

of Visual Arts.

"G. Bariţiu" History Institute, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca

Branch.

13th Elementary School of Ilion, Athens, Greece.

”Elena Cuza” Gymnasium School Nr. 9 of IAȘI.


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C O N S I D E R A T I O N S

The conference topics reflects a global social need: diversity in the current era,

represents a fundamental aspect of all societies and aims, also the differences between

people as individuals, and those of various groups. The existence of multiple identities,

values, traditions, customs and different ways of relating between individuals or groups,

necessarily require addressing education and society from an intercultural

perspective. This represents a new challenge and a condition for social cohesion that is

based on cultivating the mutual respect and understanding between individuals and

between groups. Engaging in intercultural interactions is inevitable, and more, can

provide both a knowledge and cultural enrichment. Without mutual understanding,

differences may generate conflicts which, if not resolved in a peaceful way, may

degenerate into human rights violations.

Defining the specific elements of intercultural education. It is proposed a

psychological and pedagogical approach of the cultural differences, strategy whereby are

taken into account the spiritual diversities of others (the difference of gender, social or

economic difference etc.), avoiding as far as possible, the risks arising from unequal

exchange between cultures or, worse, the trends to hierarchy of cultures.

Art is part of the cultural background of a society. It will explore how art can

contribute either to eliminate conflicts arising from diversity or, conversely, can incite

them. Education in general and especially arts education, provide effective means of

addressing cultural diversities, helping to shape the personality of young people in the

sense of "acceptance and participation", "cohabitation learning - learning to live

together", avoiding "stereotypes and prejudices". We will highlight the crucial role of

education in proposing solutions for the promotion of democracy and interculturalism

– multiculturalism values.

We will highlight the link that exists between works of art, their creators and

the cultural context that generate them. Through his works, the artist expresses not only

his personal anxieties or emotional ardent feelings but also, reflects a conscious level of

the social group, being himself adapted to human values, characteristic of the era and

society to which he belongs.


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EXECUTIVE BOARD

Marinela Rusu, Main Researcher, grd. II, PhD. Romanian Academy, Iasi

Branch, Institute "Gh. Zane".

Marilena Doncean, Main Researcher, grd. III, PhD. Romanian Academy, Iasi


Adrian Liviu Măgurianu, Main Researcher, grd. III, PhD. Romanian Academy,

Iasi Branch, Institute "Gh. Zane".

Codrin Dinu Vasiliu, Main Researcher, grd. III, PhD. Romanian Academy, Iasi


Eugenia Maria Pasca, Professor PhD., “George Enescu” National University of

Arts, Iaşi, Romania.

Valentina Pritcan, Professor, PhD „Alecu Russo” Bălți State University,

Republic of Moldova.

Magdalena Lazăr, secretary, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Institute "Gh.

Zane".

PROGRAMM COMMITTEE:

Teodor Dima, PhD Professor, Member of Romanian Academy; Director -"Gh. Zane"

Institute of Economic and Social Research, Iași.

Constantin Cucoș, PhD Professor, Director - Teacher Training Department, "Al. I.

Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania

Carmen Mihaela Crețu, PhD Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Educational

Sciences, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania.

Petru Bejan, PhD Professor, Dean, Faculty of Philosophy and Political Sciences, "Al. I.

Cuza" University, Iași.

Anna Giannopoulos, Psychiatrist, Luzerner Psychiatric Clinic, Luzern, Schweiz

(Elvetia).

Larisa Sadovei, PhD Professor, Dean, State Univ. of Pedagogy ”Ion Creangă”,

Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.

Marinela Rusu, Researcher, grd. II, PhD. Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Institute

"Gh. Zane".


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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Teodor Dima, PhD Professor, Member of Romanian Academy; Director -"Gh. Zane"

Institute of Economic and Social Research, Iași.



Maria Urmă, PhD Professor, arhitect, Dean of Faculty of Visual Arts, “George Enescu”

National University of Arts from Iaşi.

Emilian Dobrescu, Prof., secretar stiintific al sectiei de stiinte economice, juridice si

sociologie, Academia Română.



Bogdan Constantin Neculau, lecturer, Faculty of Psychology and Educational


Eugenia Maria Paşca, PhD Professor, Teacher Training Department, “George Enescu”

National University of Arts from Iaşi.

Ionuț Isac, PhD, Main researcer I, "G. Bariţiu" History Institute, Romanian Academy,

Cluj-Napoca Branch.

Valentina Pritcan, Associate Professor, PhD „Alecu Russo” Bălți State University,


Monica Albu, PhD, Main researcer I, "G. Bariţiu" History Institute, Romanian

Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch.

Petru Bejan, prof. univ. dr., șeful Departamentului de Filozofie, Univ. ”Al. I. Cuza”,

Iași, Facultatea de Filozofie și Științe Politice.

Tatiana Comendant, Associate Professor, PhD, Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine

Arts, Faculty of Art Voice, Chisinau, Moldova.

Lena-MarieLun, PhD, Main researcher, Accademia Europea di Bolzano (EURAC),

Italy.

Carmen Palhau Martins, researcher, Bournemouth University, Great Britain.

Christian Maurer, Prof. PhD., IMC Fachhochschule Krems, Austria.

Tamara Mitrofanenko, dr., Univ. für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU), Austria.

Gabriela Benescu, conf. PhD., visual artist, “G. Enescu” Nat. University of Arts from

Iaşi of Romania.

Liliana Stan, Prof. PhD, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, "Al. I. Cuza

"University of Iasi, Romania.

Georgiana Corcaci, Associate Professor PhD. Faculty of Psychology, University

"Petre Andrei" University of Iasi, Romania.

Marinela Rusu, PhD, Main researcher, grd. II, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch,

Institute "Gh. Zane".

Anna Giannopoulos, psychiatrist, Luzerner Psychiatric Clinic, Luzern, Schweiz

(Elvetia).


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Olimpiada Arbuz-Spatari, Associate Professor, PhD., Pedagogical State University

"Ion Creangă", Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.

Ioana-Iulia Olaru, PhD. lecturer, visual artist, the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design,

”George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, Romania.

Codrin Dinu Vasiliu, PhD, Main Researcher, grd. III,. Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch,


Emilia Moraru, PhD Professor, Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts, Faculty of

Art Voice, Chisinau, Moldova.

Larisa Sadovei, PhD Professor, Dean, State Univ. of Pedagogy ”Ion Creangă”,

Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.

OFFICIAL OPENING

1000 - 1130 - AULA of Romanian Academy, Iași Branch. Chairperson: PhD. Marinela Rusu

Teodor Dima, Opening speech

Constantin Cucoș, Aesthetic education and intercultural education - Possible

interference and continuity.

Carmen Mihaela Crețu & Tina Vrabie, The influence of cultural differences

on the identification and training of talented students.

Anna Giannopoulos, Art therapy – a means of approaching affective disorders.

Petru Bejan, Artă și ideologie.

Sadovei Larisa & Sadovei Nicolae, state of education in the republic of moldova

from the perspective of declared ethnicity.

Marinela Rusu, Art and education from the perspective of cultural diversity.

1130 - 1200 - Musical recital: Duo Dolcissime

1200 - 1230 - Coffee break

Recital cameral vocal – instrumental DUO DOLCISSIME Conf. univ. dr. CRISTINA SIMIONESCU - soprană

Lect. univ. dr. BRÎNDUŞA TUDOR - pian

1. Felicia Donceanu - Paşii

2. Claude Debussy - Nuit d'Étoiles

3. Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski - Nu voi spune niciodată numele celui pe care-l iubesc

4. Nicolae Bretan - Ce te legeni, codrului?

5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Nunta lui Figaro" - Arie Susanna

6. Gicomo Puccini - "Gianni Schicchi" - Arie Lauretta

Prezentare Prof. univ. dr. EUGENIA MARIA PAŞCA


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1230 -1400 - PAPER PRESENTATION – PART I

SECTION I

AULA of Romanian Academy, Iași Branch.

Chairpersons:

PhD Marinela Rusu

PhD Carmen Mihaela Crețu

Ionuț Isac, The methaphysics of art viewed by Mircea Florian - suggestions for the

intercultural education.

Georgiana Corcaci, Psychological approach to the phenomenon mobbing.

Bogdan Constantin Neculau, Exigencies of the development of intercultural

communication skills in the context of contemporary multiculturalism.

Margarita Bakracheva, Promoting intercultural competence through phototherapy

techniques and creative events.

Norina Forna, Cultural interference in dentistry under art and education.

Eugenia Maria Paşca, Romanian musical and religious practice between the 16th and

20th centuries.

Gabriela Benescu, The artistic dimension - education and spiritual elevation.

Veronica Gaspar, Apparent and latent in intra and intercultural transmission of the

musical experience.

Andrei – Lucian Marian, An approach to the skills necessary for effective intercultural

interaction.

Luciana Frumos, Intercultural issues in inclusive education.

Florin-Vasile Frumos, Implicit culture beliefs, cultural intelligence and intercultural

competence as key elements of intercultural education.

Mariana Mantu, The Western - a Symbolical Image of the American Culture.

Doina Mihaela Popa, Classic vs modern in communicational patterns.

Ioana-Iulia Olaru, Features of the pottery of the complex with fluted ceramics in early

Hallstatt on the territory of Romania.

Samer Hazbun, Doctor-patient communication: A review of the literature.

Suzanna Patras, Photography: visual poetry.

Eugenia Zaițev, Kant’s aesthetics in the intercultural sphere.

George Ceaușu, The learning of language from the perspective of logical-linguistic

universals: an intercultural approach.

Marilena Doncean & Gheorghe Doncean, Incursions in color history.

Eugenia Bogatu, The connection between mental patterns and communication behavior.

Eudochia Saharneanu, Iluminist project in postmodern epoch.

Teodora Maidanuc Chirilă, Managing culturally diverse teams.

Ioana Petcu, Shakespeare experiment: work’s vitality and its various intercultural

dialogues.


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SECTION II:

The Small Hall of the Academy, Iași Branch.

Chairpersons: PhD Liliana Stan

PhD Adrian Liviu Măgurianu

Olimpiada Arbuz-Spatari, Developing and promoting educational technology in the

context of learning culture.

Olimpiada Arbuz-Spatari & Roșca - Ceban Daniela, Developing the creative

imagination of students in the artistic profile institutions.

Liliana Stan, Altruism and tolerance – moral benchmarks of interculturality.

Adrian Liviu Măgurianu, Innovation in social services and education.

Simac Ana, Stratulat Teodor, The role of emotional competencies in the creation of

fine art.

Emilia Moraru, Choral music from Bessarabia (the end of xixth century – the first half

of tne xxth century).

Gînju Stela, Gînju Gheorghe, Postovan Galina, Promotion of the ecological culture

using moldovan traditions and customs.

Vlasie Elena Manuela, Methods and techniques for developing the ability to accept

differences in middle school students during counseling and guidance hours.

Tatiana Bularga, The innovative praxeology: suggestions for implementing in artistic

education.

Viorica Crişciuc, Training of musical and interdisciplinary competences specific to the

field of artistic education.

Buga Oleg, Onuțu Elena-Simfonia, Opinions regarding a novel discipline. Business

psychology in the education process of students.

Buga Oleg, Păvăluc Sabina-Elena, Particularities of motivation for students to learn:

pedagogical perspective.

Suslenco Alina, Human potential of young specialists - a route towards the

sustainability of an economy.

Ludmila Bejenaru & Irina Kunina, Multiculturalism as a way of life in Azerbaijan.

Adriana Manolică & Livandovschi Roman, Cultural tourism and culture – developing

factor of the society.

Țărnă Dina, Religion and intercultural dialogue.

Țaga-Radu Consuela, Wilhelm Georg Berger – the most prolific composer of the

German community from Romania.

Viorica Popa, Genetic / typical / origin contexts of paremiological language in cultural

diversity.


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1400 - 1500 - Launch break

1500 - 1700 - PAPER PRESENTATION – PART II

SECTION I

AULA of Romanian Academy, Iași Branch

Chairperson: PhD. Marilena Doncean

Gașpar Veronica, Apparent and latent in intra and intercultural transmission of

the musical experience.

Chelariu Adelina, Vrabie Tina, Neculau Andreea, The identification of

children with high aptitudinal potential which come from different cultural

backgrounds.

Diana-Elena Vizitiu, Contextual determinations and abusive interpretations in

Salvador Dalí's work.

Elena Ichim, Intercuturality in education: from diversity to genuine action.

Alina Ilinca, Liviu Marius Bejenaru, From acculturation to multiculturalism

and cultural conflict.

Bocșa Ovidiu and Bocsa Mioara, The Management of Diversity.

Anca Iorga, Arts education at school in Europe.

Lavinia Maria Pruteanu, The Holocaust - from tragic to comic.

Marinela Rusu, Multicultural co-existence in a globalized world.

Cristina Simionescu, The feminine personage of the Italian opera in the

European cultural context of the 19th century. Stylistical - interpretative analysis

of the role of Elvira from opera I Puritani of Vincenzo Bellini.

Lucia Diaconu, Technical and interpretative reporting in the Wolfgang Amadeus

Mozart camera music (Trio, Cvartet and Entertainment).

Doina Ursache Dimitriu, The italian opera in the European cultural context of

the 19th century. Historical and statistical disease in the Italian lyric-drama gene

to Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini.

Luminita Ciobanu, Contribution in musical education.

Calin Farcasel, The hermeneutical dialog between music and science. Sorina Chiper, From Difference to Diversity: the Use of Films in the Intercultural

Communication Class.


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SECTION II

The Small Hall of the Academy, Iași Branch.

Chairperson:

Roxana I. Holic

Robert Mieczkowski, Polish messianism in Central Europe and its impact on

nation-building process in that region.

Corina Matei Gherman & Doina Guriță, Art, communication, education by

symbols.

Titiana Marcu, The artistic vision of a great confessor.

Tudorița Grădinaru, Bullying in Romanian schools- the main studies and

researches.

Roxana I. Holic, The psychological profiles of adolescents with high

intellectual abilities identified in the literature.

Elena Negoiță, Literature and interculturality.

Gârțu Maria-Livia, Diversity of parental models in the context of the

preparation of a positive parental style with low school age children.

Dorotti Yacoob, - Addressing cultural diversity for a better integration of roma

ethnic children in schools appealing to sensitise teachers with regard to

culturally responsive education.

- Interculturality - the foundation of a development of a healthy society in full

globalization process.

Cristian Ungureanu, About numbers, from a transdisciplinary perspective.

Alexandru Sava, Interculturality and justice.

Tinni Dutta, Imagery in Romantic Poetry.

Christina Gatsakou, Cultural differences in teaching dyslexic students.

Eirini Tseliou, Student Creative Employment Workshops in Education of Roma

Children.

Elena Tonikidi, Empathy and communication by art.

Maria Belea, Artistic personality in the light of socio-cultural integration.

Anamaria Gheorghiu, Cultural diversity in creativity.

Ioana Macovei, Teenagers - characteristics of creativity.

Irina Frasin, The cat in art and photography.

Workshop

CULTURAL DIVERSITIES IN PHOTOGRAPHY

Library Hall of the Academy, Iași Branch.

Chairperson: PhD Codrin Dinu Vasiliu


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1900 - 1930 - Official closure

PARTICIPANTS

Olimpiada Arbuz-Spatari, Associate Professor, PhD., Pedagogical State

University "Ion Creangă", Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.

Margarita Bakracheva, Assoc. Prof., PhD., researcher, European Polytechnical

University, Bulgaria. Petru Bejan, Professor PhD., Faculty of Philosophy and Political Sciences, "Al. I.

Cuza" University, Iași.

Liviu Marius Bejenaru, Senior advisor, CNSAS, București.

Ludmila Bejenaru, Associate Professor, PhD. Catedra de Slavistică „Petru

Caraman”, Centrul de Multiculturalism din Azerbaijan, Baku.

Maria Belea, Psychologist, Baia Mare – AIPRE, PhD., Pontifical Salesian

University (Roma). Dr. Psiholog Baia Mare – AIPRE (Roma, Italia).

Gabriela Benescu, Assoc. Prof. PhD., “George Enescu” National University of


Ovidiu Bocșa, Independent researcher, teacher to "Ion Pop Reteganul" Secondary

School in Petru Rareş, county BN, Romania.

Mioara Bocșa, Independent researcher, teacher to "Ion Pop Reteganul" Secondary

School in Petru Rareş, county BN, Romania.

Eugenia Bogatu, PhD Associate, The Moldova State University, Chisinău, Rep. of

Moldova.

Buga Oleg, doctor habilitat Prof., „Alecu Russo” Bălți State University, Republic

of Moldova.

Tatiana Bularga, PhD, Associate Professor, ”Alecu Russo” Balti State University,


George Ceaușu, Assoc. Prof. Dr., Faculty of Philosophy and Social - Political

Sciences, "Al. I. Cuza" University – Iași

Roșca - Ceban Daniela, PhD. Candidate, Pedagogical State University "Ion

Creangă", „Ion Creanga”, Chișinău.

Luminita Ciobanu, Lecturer univ. dr, UNAGE Iasi.

Georgiana Corcaci, Associate Professor PhD., Faculty of Psychology, "Petre

Andrei" University of Iasi, Romania.

Sorina Chiper, Lecturer, PhD., , “Al. I. Cuza” University, Iași.

Chelariu Adelina, PhD. Candidate, Faculty of Psychology and Education

Sciences, “Al. I. Cuza” University, Iași.




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Viorica Crişciuc, Associate Professor, PhD. „Alecu Russo” Bălți State University,

Republic of Moldova



Damir Demonja, Ph.D., Senior Research Adviser, Institute for Development and

International Relations, IRMO, Department for International Economic and Political

Relations, Zagreb, Croatia.

Emilian Dobrescu, Prof., secretar stiintific al sectiei de stiinte economice, juridice

si sociologie, Academia Română.

Lucia Diaconu, Associate Professor, PhD., „George Enescu” University of Arts,

Iași, Romania.

Țărnă Dina, PhD candidate, State University, Republic of Moldova.

Codrin Dinu Vasiliu, PhD, Main Researcher, grd. III,. Romanian Academy, Iasi


Doina Ursache Dimitriu, Associate Professor PhD., „George Enescu” National

University of Arts, Iași, Romania.

Marilena Doncean, Researcher, grd. III, PhD. in Economics, Romanian Academy,

Iasi Branch Institute "Gh. Zane".

Gheorghe Doncean, Associate Professor PhD, „Gh. Asachi” Technical University

of Iasi.

Tinni Dutta, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Asutosh College,

University of Calcutta, India.

Călin Farcășel, univ. Lecturer, PhD, „George Enescu” University of Arts, Iași,

Romania.

Irina Frasin, Researcher PhD., Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch Institute "Gh.

Zane".

Luciana Frumos, prof. psihoped. PhD., Faculty of Psychology and Education

Sciences, “Al. I. Cuza” University, Iași.

Florin-Vasile Frumos, Associate Professor PhD, Faculty of Psychology and

Education Sciences, Department of Training for Educational Staff, “Al. I. Cuza”

University, Iași.

Norina Forna, Dean, Faculty of Dental Medicine, ”T. Popa” UMF, Iași.

Veronica Gaspar, Associate Professor PhD, National University of de Music,

București.

Gârțu Maria-Livia, PhD. Candidate, teacher, Școala Gimnazială „Mihail Andrei”

Buhuși, Bacău and USP ”Ion Creangă”, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.

Christina Gatsakou, B.A. in Philosophy, Pedagogics, Psychology, M.A. in

Applied Linguistics, Philologists and English teacher, Private Institutes of Athens,

Greece.

Anna Giannopoulos, Psychiatrist, Luzerner Psychiatric Clinic, Luzern, Schweiz

(Elvetia). Gînju Stela, Associate Professor, PhD., ”Ion Creangă” Pedagogical Sate

University, Pedagogică de Stat, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.


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Gînju Gheorghe, PhD, College teacher, Director of Teoretical College ”M.

Marinciuc”.

Anamaria Gheorghiu, Psychologist, school counselor, Highschool "St.

Bârsănescu", Iaşi.

Corina Matei Gherman, Coordinator, Cultural Projects, Cultural Scientific

Association Pleiadis, Iaşi.

Tudorița Grădinaru, PhD. Candidate, "Al. I. Cuza" University, Iași.

Doina Guriţă, PhD, Asociaţia Jurnaliştilor şi Scriitorilor de Turism, Iasi

Samer Hazbun, Physiotherapeut, Viva Luzern, Physiotherapie, Luzern, Schweiz

(Elvetia).

Roxana I. Holic, PhD. Candidate, "Al. I. Cuza" University, Iași.

Elena Ichim, Master candidate, anul I, Politici și management în educație, Faculty

of Psychology and Education Sciences, “Al. I. Cuza” University, Iași.

Alina Ilinca, Senior advisor, CNSAS, București.

Anca Iorga, Lecturer, PhD., Universitatea Spiru Haret, Facultatea de Educaţie

Fizică şi Sport, Bucureşti.

Ionuț Isac, PhD, Main researcer I, "G. Bariţiu" History Institute, Romanian

Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch.

Irina Kunina, Associate Professor, PhD. Catedra de Slavistică „Petru Caraman”;

Centrul de Multiculturalism din Azerbaijan, Baku.

Livandovschi Roman, Associate Professor, PhD., Academy of Economical Studies,

Chișinau, Rep. Moldova.

Postovan Galina, Masterandă UPS ”Ion Creangă”, Chișinau, Rep. Moldova.

Ioana Macovei, Psychologist, Psychological Office AMA, Iaşi.

Teodora Maidaniuc-Chirilă, Associate lect., PhD., ”Al. I. Cuza” Univ. of Iasi.

Adriana Manolică Professor PhD., "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania.

Mariana Mantu, Associate Professor PhD., Technical Univ., ”Gh. Asachi", Iași.

Liviu Adrian Măgurianu, Researcher, grd. III, PhD., Romanian Academy, Iasi


Alina Marcu Titiana, Assist. Prof., PhD., State Univ. of Oradea.

Marian Andrei – Lucian, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, "Al. I.

Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania.

Robert Mieczkowski, politologist, political anthropologist, PhD. candidate, at

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University at Warsaw, Poland.

Emilia Moraru, Dean of Faculty of Art Voice, Academy of Music, Theatre and

Fine Arts, Chisinau, Moldova.

Bogdan Constantin Neculau, lecturer PhD., Faculty of Psychology and Education

Science Teacher Training Department, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi.

Neculau Andreea, PhD. candidate, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences,

“Al. I. Cuza” University, Iași.

Elena Negoiță, teacher, PhD., Naţional Colege „Dimitrie Cantemir”, Oneşti,

Bacău.


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Ioana-Iulia Olaru, PhD. lecturer, visual artist, the Faculty of Visual Arts and

Design, ”George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, Romania.

Viorica Popa, Associate Professor PhD, „Alecu Russo” Bălți State University,


Onuțu Elena-Simfonia, teacher, grd. I. ”Alecu Russo” Balti State University,


Eugenia Maria Pasca, Professor PhD., “George Enescu” National University of


Suzana Patras, visual artist, art critic, UAP Romania.

Păvăluc Sabina-Elena, teacher, Suceava, Romania.

Ioana Petcu, univ. lect., PhD., „George Enescu” University of Arts, Iași.

Doina Mihaela Popa, Associate Professor PhD, „Gh. Asachi” Technical University

of Iasi.

Galina, Postovan, Master candidate, USP ”Ion Creangă”, Chisinau, Rep.

Moldova.

Valentina Pritcan, Professor, PhD, „Alecu Russo” Bălți State University, Republic

of Moldova.

Lavinia Maria Pruteanu, Principal Psychologist, lect., PhD., Faculty of

Psychology and Educational Sciences, "Petre Andrei" University from Iasi.

Larisa Sadovei, Dean, Univ. prof., PhD in pedagogy and Ph.D. habilitat in law, USP

”Ion Creangă”, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.

Nicolae Sadovei, Univ. prof., PhD in pedagogy and Ph.D. habilitat in law, USP ”Ion

Creangă”, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.

Alexandru Sava, Researcher, grd. III, PhD., Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch,


Cristina Simionescu, Professor, PhD, „G. Enescu” Nat. Univ. of Arts, Iași,

Romania.

Ana Simac, Dean, Professor, PhD, UPS ”Ion Creangă”, Chișinău, Rep. Moldova.

Liliana Stan, PhD Prof. “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi.

Teodor Stratulat, PhD. Candidate, UPS ”Ion Creangă”, Chișinău, Rep. Moldova.

Alina Suslenco, Lecturer, PhD., Univ. ”Alecu Russo”, Bălți, Republic of Moldova.

Țaga-Radu Consuela, Lecturer, PhD., “George Enescu” National University of

Arts, Iaşi.

Marinela Rusu, researcher, PhD., Romanian Academy, Branch of Iasi, ICES ”Gh.

Zane”.

Saharneanu Eudochia, doctor habilitat, profesor universitar, State University "Ion

Creangă", Chisinau, Rep. Moldova. Cristian Ungureanu, Lecturer, PhD., “George Enescu” National University of Arts,

Iaşi.

Codrin Dinu Vasiliu, Main Researcher, grd. III, PhD. Romanian Academy, Iasi



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Diana-Elena Vizitiu, PhD. student, Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political

Sciences ”Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi.

Elena Manuela Vlasie, School counselor teacher, CJRAE Iasi.

Vrabie Tina, PhD. candidate, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, “Al.

I. Cuza” University, Iași.

Elena Tonikidi, Psychologist, artist / art-therapist, Psychology-Art, Art-therapy

Institute & School, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Eirini Tseliou, Research Assistant/Responsible for monitoring the physical object

of Programme Education of Roma Children National and Kapodistrian University of

Athens, Greece.

Țărna Dina, PhD candidate, State University, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.

Eugenia Zaițev, PhD. student, Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences,

"A. I. Cuza", Iași.

Dorotti Yacoob, Psychologist, pedagogue Professor, Elim Christian Foundation,

C.S.E.I. Number 1. Popeşti, Romania.


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ABSTRACTS

AESTHETIC EDUCATION AND INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION -

POSSIBLE INTERFERENCE AND CONTINUITY

Constantin Cucoș, Professor PhD.,

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,

"Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania

In this intervention we aim to highlight, beyond the specificity of the two

formative components, aesthetic education and intercultural education, their finalist

unity and their content and procedural unity that can lead to their mutual maximization

and potentiation.

In other words, we will highlight the complementarity between the two formative

vectors and the fact that aesthetic education can be done with reference to the diversity

induced by the intercultural perspective and we can do intercultural education through

the education for Beauty.

As in a communicating vessel system, aesthetic education can sensitize the being

in relation to ethnic, linguistic, religious, etc. alterity, as intercultural education can

become a preamble, a facilitator or an accompanying factor of aesthetical education.

Keywords: aesthetic education, intercultural education, the dialectic identity-

cultural pluralism, intercultural communication, tolerance.


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THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES ON THE

IDENTIFICATION AND TRAINING OF TALENTED STUDENTS

Carmen Mihaela Crețu, Professor PhD.,

”Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi

Tina Vrabie, PhD. candidate,

“Al. I. Cuza” University, Iași

Approaching cultural differences in areas such as education, counseling and

scientific research has received increased attention over the last few years; specialized

literature emphasizing the importance of multicultural education to the well-being of

racially and culturally diverse students. A closer analysis of the studies conducted in this

area indicates, however, that in the field of psycho-pedagogy of excellence, there is no

significant interest in the unique needs of gifted students from culturally diverse

backgrounds, fact demonstrated by their underrepresentation in gifted education

programs. Since research in the field demonstrates that understanding the meaning of

cultural diversity and accepting new paradigms for developing organizational and

instructional strategies are important variables of the educational process, that have led

to success in supporting the needs faced by talented students coming from culturally

diverse backgrounds; the integration of multicultural education into the activities

managed by the educational specialists who work with talented students, in order to train

them properly, has become a priority.

The present article provides some recommendations that teachers who work with

talented students coming from culturally diverse backgrounds can use, in order to make

more efficient the process of identifying and educating this type of students and to

increase successful participation of the students representing this categories of

population in gifted programs.

Keywords: gifted students, well-being, cultural differences, inclusion.

ART THERAPY – A MEANS OF APROACHING

AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Anna Giannopoulos

psychiatrist, Luzerner Psychiatric Clinic,

Luzern, Schweiz (Elvetia).

Art therapy is a way to intervene in the regulation of emotional-affective

disturbance, both for traumatized children as for the adults with emotional and behavioral

problems. In this paper we propose to achieve an overview of art therapy, the means and

the rules that apply to meetings of therapeutic intervention.


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This paper also address the description of defense mechanisms, defined as

automatical psychological responses, acting to defend the individual against feelings of

anxiety which became uncomfortable, humiliating or shameful. Art therapy can detect

those maladaptive defense mechanisms, by specific means, and can give the subject the

opportunity to acknowledge and correct them. Art therapy is an excellent way to self-

knowledge and thus, there remains a privilege not only of therapists but also, may be

beneficial in educational applications made by specialized teachers.

Keywords: art therapy, development, affective disorders, trauma, creation.

STATE OF EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA FROM THE

PERSPECTIVE OF DECLARED ETHNICITY

Sadovei Larisa & Sadovei Nicolae

Dean, University professors, PhD in pedagogy and Ph.D. habilitat in law

USP ”Ion Creangă”, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova

The Republic of Moldova is in a permanent multi-faceted crisis, including identity.

State incapacity to manage identity issues in society creates discomfort, in terms of

communication capacity between social groups on a number of issues, of which

education is not excluded. This research has as object the perception of ethnic groups in

the Republic of Moldova on the education of children, found on the basis of publicly

available results of public opinion barometers of several years.

Keywords: public opinion, education domain, the perception of the ethnic groups.

MULTICULTURAL CO-EXISTENCE IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD

Marinela Rusu, Researcher, grd. II, PhD. and visual artist,

Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Institute "Gh. Zane".

The paper discusses related concepts on the issue of social equity from a cultural,

educational and ethnic point of view. In a modern society marked by globalization,

cultural diversity becomes an accepted and integrated element of government policies in

the states. Multiculturalism includes a wide range of ethnic or race differences, of gender

or religious that pose problems of integration into the basic community. In the first part

of the paper we addressed the fundamental concepts of multiculturalism in a synthetic

theoretical analysis (multiculturalism, interculturalism, intercultural dialogue,

discrimination, racism, ethnic minority).

In the second part of the paper I presented efficient means and methods of

approaching the cultural diversity at the social level. Not only education and art can

homogenize these differences, but also positive interventions, processes of integration

and assimilation, which can also contribute to the harmonization of an intercultural world

/society.


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Keywords: multiculturalism, interculturalism, discrimination, racism, assimilation,

integration, positive action.

ART AND EDUCATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE

OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Marinela Rusu, Researcher, grd. II, PhD. and visual artist,

Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Institute "Gh. Zane".

Globalization and the global flows of culture, technology, trade, and industry as

well as the global competitive economic market, and other forms of international

cooperation have created a situation where cultural forms move, change, and are reused,

and identities are also becoming increasingly hybrid. This paper presents the ideas that

crossing cultural borders can prompt changes in how people think and act, allowing new

cultural norms to emerge. As people from multiple cultures and communities interact,

cultural conflict arising from different beliefs or practices becomes inevitable. This

necessitates that educators learn how to navigate teaching in such contexts.

We present in this paper some useful theories about intercultural and art-

education expressing the new trends in this domain. As example for what cultural

diversity in art means we chose two artist examples: Kara Walker and William Pinar. Art

itself can become a mean of fighting against racism and social discrimination.

Intercultural education becomes an actual concept and includes requirements and

inherent manifestation of the modern world, which is constantly moving. More

specifically it is an education for cultural equality, cultural tolerance or for the broader

objective of multicultural education as it was proposed by M. A. Gibson (1984).

For artist and educator who strives to understand the role of art in culture, and

the role of culture in art and want to include his students in the cultural phenomenon,

anthropological theories on culture and on ethnical specific alike, are generally

necessary.

Keywords: intercultural education, discrimination, racism, cultural tolerance.

THE METHAPHYSICS OF ART VIEWED BY MIRCEA FLORIAN –

SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

Ionuț Isac, PhD, Main researcer I,

"G. Bariţiu" History Institute, Romanian Academy,

Cluj-Napoca Branch.

This study aims at identifying and analysing some possible suggestion for the

intercultural education resulted from the original conception of M. Florian on art and


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aesthetics in general. In a justified manner, the speciality exegesis awards him a position

in the history of the field by the side of T. Vianu, L. Blaga and M. Dragomirescu. His

immense work of intellectual processing and original critical interpretation of tens of

representative authors of aesthetics, literature, history and literary criticism, arts,

psychology, offers, we believe, by the invoked arguments and the formulated

conclusions, a very rich reflection and practical material in multiple humanistic fields,

despite the more than 7 decades that separate contemporaneity from the moment his first

edition was published (1945). In our opinion, the central element for discussing the

intercultural education suggestions is represented by the meaning bestowed by the

Romanian thinker to the concept of art, thus: art understood as „creative imagination”, a

complex relation between the corporal real and the soul surreal; ideal affectivity deployed

inside an object, which has its purpose in itself, which determines – by the dissolution of

the corporal and the spiritual – the sensation/ feeling of pleasure of the contemplator/

receptor. From the research that we have deployed until the present time, it results that

the aesthetic ideas of great value of M. Florian are valuable for the intercultural

education, at least concerning the following aspects: avoid stereotypes and prejudices;

just appreciation of the relation between the work of art, the creator and the receptor; to

prevent cultures hierarchisation tendencies, misunderstandings and conflicts. Thus, the

possibility is created to reinterpret the philosophical works of our classic thinkers from

the interculturality perspective, in general, of the intercultural education by art, in

particular.

Keywords: Mircea Florian, arts metaphysics, intercultural education.

EXIGENCIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY MULTICULTURALISM

Bogdan Constantin Neculau, Lecturer PhD.

Faculty of Psychology and Education Science

Teacher Training Department

“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi

Evolution can’t be imagined today, as in all other ages, without knowledge and

analysis, relating to universal and national values, context and experiential models. The

diversity of modern world, associated with the “phenomenon” of multiculturalism, drags

after itself the necessity of developing intercultural communication skills, in the field of

human communication, as well as in the professional field.

This present study has the goal of drawing attention upon some exigencies

related to this subject, the intercultural communication skill being a way of

acknowledgment, of manifesting respect, tolerance and of coming together, also of

diminishing distrust and eliminating preconceived opinions, a way of learning to cohabit


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and live in harmony with your fellow men. People can’t relate from one another without

authentic communication, without socializing, and in the multiculturalism of today, this

fact is an incontestable reality. This doesn’t mean that when we approach

interculturalism, in all its aspects, we can’t relate in a certain manner, to ourselves, but

we can do it in a positive way, without excluding everyone else, taking into consideration

that it is very difficult to stand saying that you hold the absolute truth. Through the study

we will analyze the necessity to interiorize, to promote national values and take them

upon oneself, an aspect that is not excluded by interculturality, but it’s actually

recommended by it. The intercultural communication is the one that helps you get to

know people, places and facts, cultural values, traditions, but also promote your owns,

given the fact that the individual in a society of knowledge, no matter how much or how

little globalized it would be, can’t be successful without permanent education, general

knowledge, aspects that give him social recognition, but also a state of balance and

harmony with himself.

Keywords: intercultural communication, multiculturalism, tolerance, diversity, skills.

PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE PHENOMENON MOBBING

Georgiana Corcaci, Associate Professor PhD

Faculty of Psychology, "P. Andrei" University of Iasi, Romania

Mobbing was introduced as a concept in the organizational environment by

Leymann, 1996. He considers "a destructive process, which consists of hostile action,

taken in isolation, may appear harmless, but through constant repetition dangerous

effects”. He argues that "Mobbing and psychological terror at work involves

communication hostile and unethical directed systematically generally on a single

individual, which, consequently, is pushed into a situation of helplessness that can not

defend; the victim is kept in this situation months (maybe years) days for the attackers

continues Mobbing (at least once a week and at least six months in a row) ".

Keywords: organization, mobbing, discrimination, abuse, manipulation.

PROMOTING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE THROUGH

PHOTOTHERAPY TECHNIQUES AND CREATIVE EVENTS

Margarita Bakracheva, Assoc. Prof., PhD.,

European Polytechnical University, Bulgaria

The article outlines the contemporary context of migration flows and cultural

diversity. At this background the issues discussed concern the new challenges to

inclusion and school educational environment. The key role of art and creative activities

are illustrated as having potential to promote intercultural dialogue and mutual tolerance


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and respect. The pilot implementation of techniques of phototherapy in a three-step cycle

author’s programme is described. Some examples are given for online an off-line

moderated interactions and involvement of students in events, generated by themselves.

These two regional projects are presented as suggestion of one of the ways for adaptation

to the new social and cultural context in view to promotion of intercultural skills and

competence.

Keywords: intercultural skills, phototherapy, cultural diversity.

CULTURAL INTERFERENCE IN DENTISTRY

UNDER ART AND EDUCATION

Norina Forna,

Dean, Faculty of Dental Medicine,

”T. Popa” UMF, Iași

Dental medicine is a complex of clinical entities whose rehabilitation leads to a

good insertion of the patient into the current society. The patient's particularities in this

clinical area are grafted on cultural aesthetics.

Art and formative character governs dental medical practice, giving valences of

individuality according to space and socio-cultural specificity.

Keywords: individuality, cultural interference, dentistry.

ROMANIAN MUSICAL AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE BETWEEN THE 16th

AND 20th CENTURIES

Eugenia Maria Paşca, Professor PhD.,

„George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, Romania

In the course of time it has been found that the emergence and development of

religious music is analyzed in parallel with the birth of the church chant and of the

Christian Church. Church music played an overwhelming role in the crystallization of

religious services in the second and fourth centuries, gaining valences following the

Mediolanum Edict in 313, through the development of Christian hymns and religious

services in all their magnitude, the ultimate goal of which is its exalting God. Christian

hymnography of the first centuries is the creation of leading Byzantine music composers

and important Church Fathers and Writers from the ancient times whose names are

preserved in old codices. The "golden age" period of the Christian Church is represented

by personalities of a vast secular and theological culture, but also of a highly spiritual

attitude. In the East, St. Basil the Great, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Gregory of

Nazianz and others, and in the West we see Saint Ambrose of Mediolan, Blessed Jerome


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and Blessed Augustine. All these Church Fathers and Teachers Christians have used the

means of spreading and sustaining faith in the Holy Trinity, church song or hymns of

glory that Christians have exalted to God, as we have the ascendant hymns of St.

Ambrose, and in their writings have shown that dialogue with God is more Relevant by

scales.

Keywords: religious music, musical language, coral repertoire.

THE ARTISTIC DIMENSION - EDUCATION AND

SPIRITUAL ELEVATION

Gabriela Benescu, Assoc. Prof. PhD.,

“George Enescu” National University of Arts,

Iaşi, Romania.

The emergence of new interferences between different areas of culture, the

engagement of new relationships between a series of concepts, notions, constantly

influence the changes of artistic visions. The constant interest in the knowledge of

universal art, the philosophical problems related to existence, inclination towards

reflection, synchronization with the ideas of time is an important reference in the

formation of profoundly renewed creative concepts. Artistic education helps the

individual to develop sensory and cognitive skills, facilitating communication with

others, but also with oneself, which will lead to a deeper understanding of reality. The

social and family context, education, geographic space make their mark in stimulating

intellectual, visual and spiritual curiosity in the affective and cognitive development

process. Art is not limited by geographical or temporal boundaries, it merges, interacts,

and reacts to the challenges of the world. Human activity that encompasses and conveys

feelings, experiences, emotions - is the most tremendous way of doing education. All

these used and exploited by the artist and, implicitly, transmitted to the peers lead to the

shaping of moral and spiritual values, to the completion of human evolution.

Keywords: art, education, communication, emotion, spiritual.

APPARENT AND LATENT IN INTRA AND

INTERCULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF THE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE

Veronica Gaspar, Associate Professor PhD,

National University of de Music, București

The present essay aims at highlighting some constants and variables which occur

in the communication of the musical experience, whether synchronously, in direct artistic

displays or in transmission processes from one generation to the next.


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We distinguish three nodal ways which are involved in the preservation of the

musical dowry: teaching, symbols and text. The educational processes are related to the

degree of social participation as well to the intrinsic structure of a specific musical

culture. The transposition into a semantic sphere, meaning literary or mystical

correspondences or myths could be seen as an enantiomorphic reflexion of the

subsequent non-verbal symbols issued from the direct artistic act, no matter the cultural

type. The text, or its substitutes, more or less encoded (carving, images, numbers etc.)

could be ultimately considered as a synthesis of the other two preservation ways. It

reflects both the power of symbols on the social values and the particularities of the

artistic tradition, including its pedagogical dimension.

We intend to bring again into focus those common elements and coincidences,

which are paradoxically linking remote cultures in time and space. Meanwhile, we also

aim at mentioning several types of cultural communication, especially those concerning

the ticklish issue of the ratio between contamination and preservation.

Keywords: symbols, music, contamination-preservation.

AN APPROACH TO THE SKILLS NECESSARY FOR EFFECTIVE

INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION

Marian Andrei – Lucian, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,

"Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania.

Understanding theories and concepts in the intercultural areas does not lead

automatically to behaviors sensitive from a cultural point of view. It is easy to find a very

good connoisseur of the theories on the effectiveness of the intercultural, which have the

best of intentions, but who are not able to demonstrate their knowledge through concrete

actions. Thus, people who are aware of the presence of cultural diversity, prepared from

the emotional point of view and knowing the dimensions of the intercultural, are not

necessarily proficient relationship until he develops the proper instrumental side, i.e.

intercultural skills.

This paper attempts to emphasize the main skills needed for effective interaction

with alterity, dichotomously structured on cultural – general skills and cultural – specific

skills. Regarding to the cultural-general skills, these are directly correlated with the management

of uncertainty and anxiety. The control of uncertainty requires a minimum of four skills: the

ability to focus, the ability to empathize and to be flexible, the ability to adapt behavior and the

ability to make accurate predictions, and to provide accurate explanations for the behavior of

members of other cultures. Anxiety control requires abilities such as tolerance of ambiguity, stress

management and setting realistic expectations. Essentially, these are skills that enable individuals

to learn about themselves and to prepare for interactions in any cultural context, thus facilitating

the understanding of the culture influence on behaviors. By contrast, the culture – specific skills


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refer to behaviors related to a given culture and a model of interaction with members of that

culture or, in other words, it is a specific expression to a particular culture.

Keywords: cultural – general skills, cultural – specific skills, intercultural interactions

INTERCULTURAL ISSUES IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Luciana Frumos, prof. psihoped. PhD.,

Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences,


Inclusion in education is not only an approach to educate students with special

educational needs although it is often associated with students who have impairments or

special educational needs. Inclusion starts from recognising the differences between

students and it is about making schools and classrooms supportive and stimulating places

for all students that may encounter barriers to learning and participation, not onțy for

those with special educational needs. Inclusion means increasing the participation of

students and reducing their exclusion from the culture, curriculum and community of

local schools. Several barriers will be presented. The overrepresentation of minorities in

special education is one of the issues. Then we argue that improving inclusive education

and the scool success of diverse students can be accomplished through culturally

responsive teaching, by preparing teachers with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills

needed to do this. Culturally responsive teaching is using the cultural characteristics,

experiences, and perspectives of diverse students in order to teach them more effectively.

When children are taught through their own cultural and experiential filters, their

academic achievement is more likely to improve. Several strategies can be used to

enhance responsive teaching. Inclusion involves change and it is a continuous process of

facilitating learning and participation for all students.

Keywords: inclusive education, interculturality, teachers, culture.

IMPLICIT CULTURE BELIEFS, CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE AND

INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE AS KEY ELEMENTS OF

INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

Frumos Florin-Vasile, Associate Professor PhD,


Department of Training for Educational Staff,

“Al. I. Cuza” Univ., Iași.

An effective intercultural education should take into consideration some

essential psychological construct as implicit culture beliefs, cultural intelligence and

intercultural competence. Despite a large literature on intercultural interactions, the

psychological processes and mechanism underlying this complex reality remain poorly

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Cultural intelligence (CQ), as ability to adapt and function effectively in

intercultural settings (Ang et al, 2007) seems closely conceptual related to the popular

intercultural competence, defined as ability to develop targeted knowledge, skills and

attitudes that lead to visible behavior and communication that are both effective and

appropriate in intercultural interaction (Deardorff, 2006). More than that, the hidden part

of intercultural abilities, whether is about CQ or intercultural competence are more

interesting: implicit culture beliefs, defined as beliefs about the fixedness and

malleability of cultural attributes of peoples (Levy, Stroessner & Dweck, 1998). This

beliefs deserve a special attention, because they may substantially influence the

attitudinal and behavioral outputs in intercultural interactions.

Implications for educational policies and for intercultural education, in formal

and/or non-formal settings, will be drawn from this analysis.

Keywords: implicit culture beliefs, cultural intelligence, intercultural competence.

CLASSIC versus MODERN IN

COMMUNICATIONAL PATTERNS

Doina Mihaela Popa, Associate Professor PhD,

„Gh. Asachi” University of Iasi.

Regardless the perspective of the approach – classical or systemic - the notion

of communication ignores, through its own essence, the idea of border. Situated under

the imperative of interdisciplinarity, communication dominated the past century (that, in

its turn, has disputed the appearance and confrontation of two important models: the

linear model and the circular one) and has all the chances to dominate our times as well.

The linear model (dominated by the behaviorist perspective that changed the classical

scheme E-M-R into a projection of unidirectional conditioning: S-R) was gradually

replaced by the circular one. The diversification and enhancement of the interest for all

forms of communication (verbal, non-verbal, and para verbal) still function, together

with the preference for the comparative analysis of communicational functions in two

main distinctive perspectives: the instrumental and the constructivist one. While the

former analyzes the functions of communication within the group, having in common

the conception of communication as a social instrument, the latter postulates the principle

of the individual who communicates, “l’homme communiquant”(R. Ghiglione ) who is

no longer a passive mirror reflecting reality, but the very builder of it.

Keywords: communication, interdisciplinarity, actants.

THE WESTERN - A SYMBOLICAL IMAGE OF THE AMERICAN CULTURE

Mariana Mantu, Associate Professor PhD,

„Gh. Asachi” University of Iasi.

The western film has a significant and acknowledged place in the history of the

American cinematography. It reflects a glorious page in the history of the nation and


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builds one of the strongest American symbols in which the essence of the free spirit, of

morality and courage are reflected. The main themes of the western film are man’s fight

with wild nature, the wish of the hero to built a new destiny, mainly based on his own

powers, the struggle between the good and the evil. To these one may add the rough life

at the frontier, the conflicts between the native Americans and the settlers or the impact

of the Industrial Revolution on people and society.

The great success of the western genre emerges not only from the above themes,

but also from the central image of the protagonist who acts according to lofty moral

principles that managed to fill the void in the ideals of the American people at that time.

The western film speaks about the ruthless fight of the hero with a wild world, a fight in

the name of civilization and the benevolence of a society based on morality and justice.

Keywords: the western film, symbol, morality.

FEATURES OF THE POTTERY OF THE COMPLEX

WITH FLUTED CERAMICS IN EARLY

HALLSTATT ON THE TERRITORY OF ROMANIA

Ioana-Iulia Olaru, PhD lecturer,

Faculty of Visual Arts and Design,

”George Enescu” University of Arts, Iași, Romania

The present study will refer only to the early period of Hallstattului, Ha A-B, the

beginning of the first Iron Age brought important transformations recorded in ceramics

and small sculpture, together with the development of production forces due to the

spreading of iron metallurgy. In a time when ceramics suffered major changes regarding

forms and decor – we are talking here about the first period of Hallstatt (the early one) –

the horizon with fluted ceramics completes the image of pottery at that time, together

with the other great cultural unity (the complex with incised and engraved ceramics).

The forms and decors of the culture Gáva-Holihrady are also taken by the cultural group

Susani of the horizon with fluted ceramics from the south-west and south of Romania

and, in a less unitary way, by the culture Corlăteni-Chișinău. Small sculpture is not a

flourishing field in the entire Iron Age; only Gáva-Holihrady left us a few examples of

small zoomorphic statuettes.

Keywords: flute, megalith, depas amfykypelon.

DOCTOR-PATIENT COMMUNICATION:

A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Samer Hazbun, Physiotherapeut, Viva Luzern,

Physiotherapie, Luzern, Schweiz (Elvetia)

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Communication can be seen as the main ingredient in medical care. In reviewing

doctor-patient communication, the following topics are addressed: (1) different purposes


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of medical communication; (2) analysis of doctor-patient communication; (3) specific

communicative behaviors; (4) the influence of communicative behaviors on patient

outcomes; and (5) concluding remarks.

Three different purposes of communication are identified, namely: (a) creating

a good inter-personal relationship; (b) exchanging information; and (c) making

treatment-related decisions. Communication during medical encounters can be analyzed

by using different interaction analysis systems (IAS). These systems differ with regard

to their clinical relevance, observational strategy, reliability/validity and channels of

communicative behavior. Several communicative behaviors that occur in consultations

are discussed: instrumental (cure oriented) vs affective (care oriented) behavior, verbal

vs non-verbal behavior, privacy behavior, high vs low controlling behavior, and medical

vs everyday language vocabularies. Consequences of specific physician behaviors on

certain patient outcomes, namely: satisfaction, compliance/adherence to treatment,

recall and understanding of information, and health status/psychiatric morbidity are

described. Finally, a framework relating background, process and outcome variables is

presented.

Keywords: doctor-patient communication, purposes of communication, interaction

analysis systems, communicative behaviors, patient outcomes.

PHOTOGRAPHY: VISUAL POETRY

Suzana Patras, visual artist, art critic,

UAP Romania.

Photography belongs simultaneously to the domains of technique, art and

commerce, without being strictly attached to any of them. A photograph is the result of

three main components: subject, form and content. Photography means “writing with

light” and it operates with the same vocabulary as poetry, but it goes beyond the written

word. A photograph can say more with less and is a symbol of a small piece of life. The

power of it lies in the fact that it can say so much, within the constricted space of a frame.

Photography is also a symbol of a world in transformation, both sharp and blurry.

It exists between imagination and reality, ideas and facts, in that wide-open space where

one can record a certain kind of truth viewed through the eyes of the photographer. The

connection between poetry and photography stems from the fact that both writers and

photographers share the same perception of the signs and symbols that define our

relationship to the outside world. Built around light, without which it cannot exist,

photography operates with a symbol of ultimate power and strength and a tool for

understanding the unseen levels of reality and connections between all things.

Keywords: photography. visual poetry, metaphor, symbolism, storytelling.


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KANT’S AESTHETICS IN THE INTERCULTURAL SPHERE

Eugenia Zaițev, PhD. student,

”Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi

Both aesthetics and culture, seem to be some phenomena, which interact with

each other increasingly more in these latter days. Nowadays, we are dealing with an

intercultural communication in several areas, and what I want to analyze in this text, it

depends on the way as perceived Immanuel Kant and his aesthetics in intercultural space.

Kant’s “Critiques” obtained not just gratitude in philosophical and artistic sphere, as well

as in other scientific domains, but they have been an example for the construction new

concepts or humanistic approaches.

The cultural memory, in the case of Kant’s aesthetics, is the epistemic baggage

transmitted and in international sphere. Reading Kant in the language of the philosopher,

or translated in languages of other countries and/ or continents, form the curiosity to

analyze as studied Immanuel Kant in different cultures, what are the philosophical

resemblances, and maybe the differences. It is sure that Kant’s philosophy remains to be

the core of memory of aesthetic values. Kant’s aesthetics forms the way of knowledge

through intellect or sensibility, as well as a deck between different cultures. Such that,

the approach the subject of this text will focus on the importance of Kantian landmarks

in the intercultural sphere, necessary to create a global artistic and philosophical balance.

Keywords: aesthetics, memory, intercultural space.

THE LEARNING OF LANGUAGE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF LOGICAL-

LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS: AN INTERCULTURAL APPROACH

George Ceaușu, Assoc. Prof. Dr.,

Faculty of Philosophy and Social - Political Sciences,

"Al. I. Cuza" University – Iași

The dominant groups (nominal and verbal) and dominated groups (adjective and

adverbial) together with the statement admit a common schematization through the X-

bar theory or X theory, where X is a constituent group. The prescriptions of a general

syntax, closely related to semantics elaborated around a set of primitives, are essential in

specifying the universal grammar rules. Associated of the triad lexic - text - discourse,

lexical description theory and enunciation pragmatics allows the systematization of

literary and scientific texts assimilated by the speaker. Highlighted in the lexicon and in

the text, the fundamental and derived logic categories allow the construction of three

types of axiom-based systems and rules, which can be exploited in a knowledge base.

The human mind may be such a base.

Allowing the hierarchy of speakers of language based on competence or

linguistic performance, the logical-linguistic system is sensitive to certain social


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parameters such as age, professional status, level of education, etc. And allows for the

determination of similar learning steps in multilingual environments - which we can track

in terms of applications. Finally, we resume two problems proposed by Noam Chomsky

in language acquisition: Plato's problem and Orwell's problem.

Keywords: group of constituents, linguistic competence, intercuturality.

INCURSIONS IN COLOR HISTORY

Marilena Doncean, Researcher, grd. III,

PhD. in Economics, Romanian Academy,

Iasi Branch Institute "Gh. Zane".

Gheorghe Doncean, Associate Professor PhD,

„Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi.

How is our life without colors? ... I do not even want to imagine. Importantly,

there is one way or another for them to accompany us everywhere. We are able to

perceive colors not only with the mind but also with the heart, and they are able to convey

to us certain states of soul, reflecting ultimately the personality of each of us. The heart

colores with emotions what the mind is painting only in black and white. The psychic

state of the human being is induced, among other things, by the way each perceives the

environment and the sense it gives to the surrounding objects. In the present study we

wanted to present a brief insight into the history of colors, everything that surrounds us

with a color, a perfume or sound.

Keywords: color, harmony, light, spectrum, triad.

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN MENTAL PATTERNS

AND COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR

Eugenia Bogatu, PhD Associate,

The Moldova State University, Chisinău

In the process of human communication, most of the time, works this principle:

if you want to convince someone, that is, to shape one's free will, you must start your

communication with other's beliefs and presuppositions. To respect the certainties of the

other involves creating an empathic connection in the interrelation process, is to create

the other conviction that you respect him, that you are ready to achieve an adhesion

between your personal ideas and his ideas. In other words, if you want to convince the

other of something, you have to start from his personal beliefs. Nothing is more precious

in man than this personal foundation on which beliefs, assumptions, certainties, and

native linguistic matrix are built over time. Beliefs and assumptions come to dominate

us, as one language masters us. In academic and common communication, the entire

intellectual significance of an arbitrary symbol consists of all the general models of

rational conduct which, depending on all circumstances and desires, arise from

acceptance of the symbol. Conventions and general understandings are set in men's mind


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in the form of assumptions and beliefs that build and rebuild the mental schemes in which

we act. We can say that understandings and conventions are represented in the form of

patterns that transcend beyond time and place, they refer more to mentality.

Keywords: mental patterns, linguistic conventions, assumptions.

ILUMINIST PROJECT IN POSTMODERN EPOCH

Saharneanu Eudochia, doctor habilitat, prof. univ.,

State University "Ion Creangă", Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.

In the article the place and role of the Enlightenment in the system of Modern and

Postmodern is analyzed. The author reveals the components of the Enlightenment project

in order to define in it the creative, life-like and actual for the conditions of the

Postmodern era. The points of deformation of the Enlightenment project in the terms of

the Modern and post-modern era are determined. The author recognizes the urgency of

creating a new Enlightenment.

Keywords: Project of the Enlightenment, Modern, Postmodern, creativity, rejection of

creativity, saving the Enlightenment project, the new Enlightenment.

SHAKESPEARE EXPERIMENT: WORK’S VITALITY AND ITS VARIOUS

INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES

Ioana Petcu, univ. lect., PhD.,

„George Enescu” University of Arts, Iași

The fascinating Shakespearean text, which is crossing the ages rediscovering

itself in contemporary paradigms, is a matrix where different cultural geographies meets

each other on theatrical area. An intersection point where Occidental and oriental

mentalities hit their tangents, where North and South boundaries melts down, since

intercultural discourse can be found on the universal theme structure of Big Will’s works.

By its multiple ways of depicting his plays, the stage of the present argues, both

energy and the amazing regenerative power, no matter if it is about classic directing, or

experimental, or even about the virtual space where Shakespeare’s shape is spreading on

boundless interpretation. Analysing some of the unusual directing visions, we found out

that either the cultural horizon directors have, Shakespeare continue to be an open world

for creation, actual imaginary, recognizing itself on 21st century mythologies. Our study

follows some theatrical attempt like Hamlet (directed by Richard Schechner), Giulio

Cesare (directed by Romeo Castelluci), Cry, Trojans! (after Troilus and Cressida,

directed by Elizabeth LeCompte).

Likewise we are in front of a major work which gives freedom to the artist,

unexpected projects like those of Punchdrunk Theater Company shows in what way

imagination have the possibility to be stimulated by Shakespearean pattern and

unconventional contexts where it can be represented. Originality at any price linked on


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English play writer’s heritage? – here is one question among many others our research

asks.

Keywords: interculturality, William Shakespeare, Richard Schechner, Romeo

Castellucci, The Wooster Group.

MANAGING CULTURALLY DIVERSE TEAMS

Teodora Maidaniuc-Chirilă, Associate lect., PhD.

”Al. I. Cuza” Univ. of Iasi

This theoretical paper presents a new form of organizational management

namely the management of culturally diverse teams.

Managing culturally diverse teams may seem similar to the classic form of teams

but, in fact, requires more complex abilities such as a comprehensive understanding of

personal and cultural factors of each team member, excellent coordination strategies,

intercultural communication skills, problem solving skills, a good knowledge of one’s

own patterns of thinking, judging, questioning one’s own reality and bridging it to others’

reality. In general leaders’ of culturally diverse team have higher self-awareness levels,

great intuition, higher levels of detachment from what is known, what is inherited, higher

levels of adaptability and social intelligence.

This paper presents the core competences a leader of culturally diverse teams

should develop so that to ensure a high level of productivity, efficiency and interpersonal

satisfaction. Furthermore, the theoretical study proposes new training programs designed

to develop intercultural abilities not only for team leaders, but also for all team members.

Keywords: intercultural abilities, intercultural teams, intercultural management.

DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE

CONTEXT OF LEARNING CULTURE

Olimpiada Arbuz-Spatari, Associate Professor, PhD.,

Pedagogical State University "I. Creangă", Chisinau, Rep. Moldova

Developing and promoting educational technology in the context of learning

culture for students of fine arts is a core task of the educational process in higher

education. Optimizing artistic activities to students in the course of textile art is a process

of self-improvement, self-education and self-learning of the student's personality. In this

context, we separate reproductive learning and creative learning. Creative learning

determines the upper and awareness activities, artistic creative personality development

of students.

Keywords: educational technology, learning culture.


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DEVELOPING THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION OF

STUDENTS IN THE ARTISTIC PROFILE INSTITUTIONS

Olimpiada Arbuz-Spatari, Associate Professor, PhD.,

Pedagogical State University "Ion Creangă",Chisinau, Rep. Moldova

Roșca - Ceban Daniela, PhD. Candidate, Pedagogical State

University "Ion Creangă", „Ion Creanga”, Chișinău

.

This investigation is focused on studying the development of creative

imagination of the artistic students. Thus, by studying and analyzing this problem, is

being noticed a strong connection between personality traits, will, self-development and

creative imagination. The article describes the methodology of development of creative

imagination of the students and are set in its levels.

Keywords: creative imagination, the genesis of creative imagination, the development

of creative imagination.

ALTRUISM AND TOLERANCE –

MORAL BENCHMARKS OF INTERCULTURALITY

Liliana Stan, PhD Prof.

“Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi.

Normal life of people requires a whole range of demands and prerequisites of

different natures. Moral benchmarks are unanimously recognised, but they are also

debated once the social and existential contexts of living have been reconfigured. In

contemporary society, intercultural space acquires larger and larger dimensions and that

requires a specific axiological resignification for each and every culture as well as for

the perimeter where different cultures meet and intersect.

Human relationships imperatively need an activation of moral values within

intercultural context. In our study, we claim that within mutual supra-cultural spiritual

space, moral values of altruism and tolerance should be considered as genuine moral

benchmarks of interculturality. From the essence of these two ethical categories it derives

arguments for the need of altruism and tolerance within multicultural, transcultural and

intercultural existence. That is why this study achieves a description of the identity notes

of the two values.

Keywords: altruism, tolerance, moral, interculturality.


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INNOVATION IN SOCIAL SERVICES AND EDUCATION

Liviu Adrian Măgurianu, Researcher PhD., 3rd Degree

Social and Economic Research Institute “Gh.Zane”,

Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch

The paper brings forward the topic of social innovation from the social services’

perspective. The factors the determined social innovation in Romania are analyzed and

the paper proposes an example of how to analyze the innovation steps within a social

services project- the unsolved problem, the new solution, assimilation in the collective

practice and the change produced by assimilating the innovation. Also, the paper

analyses the role of non-governmental organizations in creating the new and ways in

which they contribute to the social development through innovation. Social innovation

is a relatively new domain in the Romanian and European research. In this context,

approaching this topic can be considered both fundamental research that has as purpose

to develop knowledge, as well as applied research from the perspective of objective

contribution to social development.

Keywords: social innovation, education, social services.

THE ROLE OF EMOTIONAL COMPETENCIES

IN THE CREATION OF FINE ART

Simac Ana, Dean, Professor, PhD, UPS

”I. Creangă”, Chișinău, Rep. Moldova

Stratulat Teodor, PhD. Candidate,

UPS ”I. Creangă”, Chișinău, Rep. Moldova

In the process of fine arts education in school, students are assisted, to form

specific abilities of the subject in the reception and creation of works of fine art. The

present article attempts to argue the necessity of approaching the art education from the

emotional intelligence perspective, aimed at training personal attitudes towards the

artistic values. Emotional competencies, according to some authors like Daniel Goleman,

are acknowledging their own emotions, managing their own emotions, emotional self-

regulation, empathy, emotional self-motivation etc. and these appear in the specialised

literature as components of emotional intelligence.

A "small artist" will not create with full force without emotional involvement,

without emotional energy which one has. We are going to present the experience

regarding the emotional development of the workshop "Colorful Expressions" in CRCT

from Chișnău.

Keywords: emotional competencies, creativity, art.


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CHORAL MUSIC FROM BESSARABIA

(THE END OF XIXTH CENTURY –

THE FIRST HALF OF TNE XXTH CENTURY)

Emilia Moraru, Dean, University professors, PhD

USP ”Ion Creangă”, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova

In this article, the author highlights the most important social and historical

events that determined the course of cult music’s evolution in Bessarabia, names of

composers, conductors and teachers (who contributed to the raise of musical, cultural

and educational level of the young generation), composition heritage, thematic and genre

pallet of coral music composers of this period. Thus, the author’s aim is to underline the

achievements of composers, such as Mihail Berezovschi (1868-1940), Mihail Bârcă

(1888-1975), Eugen Coca (1893-1954), Ştefan Neaga (1900-1951), Petre Şerban (1903-

1980), Solomon Lobel (1910-1981), Leonid Gurov (1910-1993), David Gherşfeld (1911-

2004), composers who laid the foundation of professional musical art in Moldova.

Keywords: choral music, choral poem, choral processing, oratory, cantata, a capella

choir, religious music.

PROMOTION OF THE ECOLOGICAL CULTURE

USING MOLDOVAN TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS

Gînju Stela Associate Professor, PhD.,

”Ion Creangă” Pedagogical Sate University

Gînju Gheorghe PhD, College teacher,

Director of Teoretical College ”M. Marinciuc”

Postovan Galina, Masterandă UPS ”Ion Creangă”.

In the following article, there are presented definitions of the ecological culture,

according to several authors. There are highlighted the differences between ecological

culture and ecological education, showing the phases of the ecological culture.

Moreover, there are presented concrete examples of promoting the educational culture

using moldovan traditions and customs.

There are described such holidays as Martisor, Lazarel, Palm Sunday, St.

George, Whitsuntide, St. Demetrios, Christmas, Dragobete, etc. Furthermore, there are

described the national moldovan carpets and the national clothing, which are an

incomensurable source of information for many generations. The description of the

holidays are classified in the order of their occurance during the year.

Keywords: ecological culture; ecological education; traditions.


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METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR DEVELOPING THE ABILITY TO

ACCEPT DIFFERENCES IN MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS DURING

COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE HOURS

Vlasie Elena Manuela,

School counselor teacher, CJRAE Iasi

School is a place of manifestation of diversity in its various forms (cultural,

social, ethnic, etc.) and also a field of action for stereotypes and bias and even for

discrimination. Sound and early management of differences between students involves

creating opportunities to meet and to work together with the "others", namely with those

students different from themselves. In those experiences they can also analyze and

confront their own stereotypes and bias, in order to find out sound and convincing

arguments for observing, accepting, and experimenting the right relation with alterity.

The importance and necessity of an educational intervention in order to develop

the ability to accept the differences stems both from the status of the school as a primary

socialization tool (that has to prepare children and young people to live in a diverse,

multidisciplinary and multicultural society) and also from the significant impact (even if

often unconscious) of stereotypes and bias over our behaviors. Counseling and guidance

activities can become opportunities for students to have a thorough knowledge and

assessment of their own stereotypes, to confront their own information and perceptions

with other people counter-strereotypical perspectives and to cognitively resize their own

views on diversity and alterity. To achieve this, teachers must acquire a "baggage

teaching" - methods and innovative techniques - shipped to the necessary motivation to

change. The didactic strategy they use may include both methods that lead to issues,

critical analysis or debates, and also cooperative methods through which students, while

achieving a common goal, gradually manage to change their stereotypes.

Keywords: stereotypes, accepting differences, developing abilities.

THE INNOVATIVE PRAXEOLOGY: SUGGESTIONS FOR

IMPLEMENTING IN ARTISTIC EDUCATION

Tatiana Bularga, PhD, Associate Professor,

”Alecu Russo” Balti State University, Republic of Moldova.

School is a specific social world for child where he deals with his peers, with the

teacher and the study disciplines. He has many and different questions and is waiting for

answers. Getting the expected answers increases the effort to know, to be always

searching and discovering the unknown phenomena. In order to foster continuously

pupil’s effort like this one manifests himself proactively, independently and successfully,


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it is not enough to have a receptive pedagogical praxeology which is reduced to the fact

that the teacher seeks to put into practice the theoretical and methodological approaches

outlined in speciality literature, guides, curricula, etc. Modern education, especially the

artistic one, has a stringent need of an innovative praxeology, which, unlike the receptive

praxeology, does not take over the rough theoretical and methodological approaches, but

obliges the practitioner to gather from the available sources only the ideas of perceived

essences, so that later to come before pupils with new actional options. Such a praxeology

becomes more than just a practical act, because it puts the teacher in the role of interim

manager function between theory and practice. In this hypostasis, the practitioner fully

corresponds to praxeologic rigors which are reduced to the specifics of the logistic design

and achievement of artistic action.

Keywords: Artistic education, proactive behaviour, success of personality, innovative

and artistic praxeology, artistic action of teacher, artistic action of pupil. JEL: I250 Education and Economic Development.

TRAINING OF MUSICAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY

COMPETENCES SPECIFIC TO THE FIELD OF ARTISTIC EDUCATION

Viorica Crişciuc, Associate Professor, PhD.

„Alecu Russo” Bălți State University, Republic of Moldova

This article reveals conceptual aspects with reference to artistic education and

the formation of musical and interdisciplinary competences. It presents the realization of

this process operating with the concepts of the famous Western, Russian and native

scholars.

One of the ideas characteristic of the scholarly pedagogical thinking is that in

the process of forming the musical and interdisciplinary competences of the child

through art, the child subjects, the objects and phenomena of his acquired assimilation

schemes.

Keywords: arts education, art, musical skills, interdisciplinary competences, knowledge

mechanism.

OPINIONS REGARDING A NOVEL DISCIPLINE. BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY IN

THE EDUCATION PROCESS OF STUDENTS

Buga Oleg, doctor habilitat în economie, profesor universitar;;

Onuțu Elena-Simfonia, teacher, grd. I , ”Alecu Russo” Balti State University,


Under the conditions of today's society, based on the rule of state law, multi-

party political democracy and, in general, the democratization of public life, education

(state and private education) is required to better meet the demands of society

development in line with the imperatives of its ways of progress. In order to meet these


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requirements the Faculty of Finance and Business Administration comes with an

unprecedented course entitled Business Psychology. Business Psychology aims to

inform students about the fundamental issues of social psychology (tutelage discipline),

with some aspects of business marketing, etc.

Keywords: Business Psychology, novel discipline, development.

PARTICULARITIES OF MOTIVATION FOR STUDENTS TO LEARN:

PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Buga Oleg, doctor habilitat în economie, profesor universitar;

Păvăluc Sabina-Elena, teacher ”Alecu Russo” Balti

State University, Republic of Moldova.

Motivation is the set of predominantly internal impulses that support and direct

the behavior of the subject in learning. It is the reason why the student learns or does not

learn. Being motivated for learning is to be impelled by motivation, to be in a dynamic,

mobilizing and goal-oriented way. Student motivation for learning is and remains an

important problem for the teacher who, on the one hand, is experiencing positive

situations because the student is motivated to learn and has clear energy resources and

goals as it is put to find the tools and contexts to maintain and maximize it, transforming

motivation into a permanent development resource and, on the other hand, for the teacher

facing difficult situations, because in this case the student has other centers of interest,

rejects, defies, he has no goals or clear objectives.

Keywords: motivation, learning, objectives.

HUMAN POTENTIAL OF YOUNG SPECIALISTS - A ROUTE TOWARDS

THE SUSTAINABILITY OF AN ECONOMY

Suslenco Alina, Univ. de Stat „Alecu Russo”,Bălți,

Republica Moldova.

In the present paper we have analysed the possibilities of capitalizing the human

potential of young specialists, which is a key element in ensuring the sustainability of an

economy. Just as young specialists constitute a pillar of sustainability, the development

of the human potential of young specialists provides the opportunity to ground and shape

the path to an economy where innovation and progress are paving the way to sustainable

development. In this paper, the ways of developing the human potential of young

specialists were analysed, as well as the effects of this development. The methods that

helped us advance in research were analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, scientific

abstraction. In conclusion, it should be noted that the economy can be developed by

developing the potential of young specialists which represents a route towards

sustainability.

Keywords: young specialists, intercultural, economy, sustainability.


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MULTICULTURALISM AS A WAY OF LIFE IN AZERBAIJAN

Ludmila Bejenaru, Irina Kunina

Associate Professor, PhD. Catedra de Slavistică „P. Caraman”

Centrul de Multiculturalism din Azerbaijan, Baku.

The Country of Fire, the country of Caspian - Khazer, the country of the carpets,

and the oldest epic opera from the 11th to the 12th century in Azerbaijan, "Dede Korkud",

tends to regain its place on the stage of history and Culture of the world. Born

institutionally, Azerbaijan still expects to explore and evaluate its social and cultural

"dimensions" to the indisputable role it has played in defining the profile and cultural

model of the Muslim world. A special national cultural space, bearing the rich footprint

of Shirvani, Zoroastra, Arabic, Persian, Russian, Ottoman, Sassanian, Azerbaijan

cultures, is, first and foremost, a space of multiculturalism open to the world's cultures,

a productive and constructive dialogue not only with different ethnocultural areas but

also with the newer culture of globalization.

Just as each nation has the need to demarcate their ethnolinguistic individuality

and to assert their identity, the climate of tolerance is one of the characteristics of this

cultural and linguistic space and a first form of balance and calm that has led to the

knowledge and acceptance of differences. Whether it is cultural, linguistic, religious,

racial differences, when it comes to something else, the Azerbaijan cultural space is

opening its doors to knowledge - on its own and on its own. Alterity does not mean, for

the Azeri, only tolerance and openness, but the full knowledge of the other. The ego-

based report, based essentially on the individual's ability to adapt to the other's existence

and its alterity, also includes a policy of the cultural and linguistic pluralism of the

Azerbaijani cultural space, in which they have been integrating for centuries with

Natives, dozens of ethnicities, cultures, religions. Multiculturalism has become a way of

life in Azerbaijan.

Keywords: Multiculturalism, Azerbaijan, Alterity.

CULTURAL TOURISM AND CULTURE –

DEVELOPING FACTOR OF THE SOCIETY

Adriana Manolică Professor PhD., UAIC of Iasi, Romania.

Livandovschi Roman, Associate Professor, PhD.,

Academy of Economical Studies, Chișinau, Rep. Moldova.

The main aim of this paper is to thoroughly present the role and position of

cultural tourism, as one of modern tourism industry’s most dynamically developing

branch. In the absence of a uniformly accepted definition, cultural tourism can be


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characterized both from the perspective of supply and demand and also from the point of

view of theoretical and practical approach. We can state that cultural tourism is a very

complex segment of the tourism industry, its supply is diverse and versatile. The paper

also aims to provide an insight into the planning and developing a cultural destination to

attract tourists.

Keywords: culture, tourism, development.

RELIGION AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

Țărnă Dina PhD. candidate,

Pedagogical State University ”I. Creangă”, Moldova

Cultural diversity or multiculturalism presents, interprets and re-evaluates the

social experience of diversity and differences. Its purpose is to talk about equality,

tolerance, and the inclusion of emigrants and different ethnicities in society. In this sense,

the process of globalization proposes a resignation of the minority / majority ratio, in

concrete cultural and global spaces that urge us to understand, accept and affirm

diversity. Cultural diversity presents a basic phenomenon of society. It addresses cultural

differences between people as well as those between diverse groups as multiple

identities: traditions, habits, how to approach education and society from an intercultural

perspective.

A tool for capitalizing on cultural diversity is intercultural dialogue, but also inter-

religious dialogue. The relationship between culture and religion is distinguished by

three characteristics: when religion decreases at the level of culture, when culture

becomes religion and when both claim autonomy.

The adoption of new principles in the development of development policies,

expressed through multicultural policies, should take into account the development of

cultural services that raise interest in the artistic phenomenon among all cultures of any

level through the existence of artistic creation workshops that bring Ideas for the

promotion and protection of cultural institutions and the contribution to the social

integration of different cultures and minorities.

Keywords: multiculturalism, intercultural dialogue, interreligious dialogue.

WILHELM GEORG BERGER – THE MOST PROLIFIC COMPOSER

OF THE GERMAN COMMUNITY FROM ROMANIA

Consuela Radu-Țaga, Lecturer, PhD., “G. Enescu”

National University of Arts, Iaşi.

Wilhelm Georg Berger was a complex musician, which carried on his activity in

the second half of twentieth century. Educated in a climate of German culture, Berger


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made his first steps in musical domain playing in a string quartet alongside Romanians,

Germans and Hungarians. The practice like player-violist have served him posterior on

the musical creationʼs field. His opus numbers cover the symphonic genre, chamber

music, vocal music, choral music, fully missing the opera. Coming from a Lutheran

world and integrating in an Orthodox world, in the context of a Romanian composing

school with modal impress, he organized mathematically his musical universe, becoming

creator of modal system. He applied the Fibonacci string up to the interval structures,

initially in melodic proportion, and after that in harmonic proportion. The erudite

musician has thought ahead the aesthetics and analytical-historical problem, writing a

multitude of studies, chronicles and volumes. His raids on the broad territories of various

musical ages was systematized on the level of handbooks of string quartet, of symphonic

music, of sonataʼs aesthetics. We are proposing to point in this study the originality of

Bergerʼs extensive creation, his art-like options and effective interaction which turned

out well from his affirmation like exponent of the German community. The Bergerʼs

style is lyrical, with epic emphasis, sometimes dramatic, doubled by a formidable and

rich melodic construction, and the bergerian melodic is perhaps unequaled in Romanian

music context, after 1960 and so far.

Keywords: music, composer, modal system.

DIVERSITY OF PARENTAL MODELS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE

PREPARATION OF A POSITIVE PARENTAL STYLE WITH LOW SCHOOL

AGE CHILDREN

Gârțu Maria-Livia, Gimnazial School, „Mihail Andrei” Buhuși, Bacău

and PhD. Candidate, USP ”Ion Creangă”,

The children’s education is a complex activity that includes a series of specific

behaviors that act individually or together to produce effects in young school

children.There is the conception that anyone can be a parent, in particular, according to

the model of their own parents. From this point of view, we are talking about the parental

model. It contains the parenting style, representing the way parents apply certain methods

in educating children, combining both the style of their parents and the elements of the

socio-cultural environment in which their family lives.

The specialized literature describes seven parental models: authoritarian parents,

indulgent, protective, inconsistent, indifferent, aggressive and effective parents from the

perspective of the behavioral and psychological control, as well as the parental support.

The behavioral control refers to parents' expectations that their rules should be

respected by children and that they behave appropriately, while the psychological control

refers to the "control attempt that invades the psychological and emotional development

of the child" by inducing negative feelings. The low school age (6/7-10/11 years) is the

period when the child enters the school and he completes the primary cycle. At this age,

it is important to relate with parents who send evaluation messages about the actions,


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behaviors of the child. The parental patterns vary according to culture, number of family

members, socio-economic status, parents’ education. It is good to know that one can not

talk about a particular parent model as a template applied to any situation

Keywords: parental model, positive parenting style, low school age.

ILUMINIST PROJECT IN POSTMODERN EPOCH

Saharneanu Eudochia,

doctor habilitat, profesor universitar,

Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

In the article the place and role of the Enlightenment in the system of Modern and

Postmodern is analyzed. The author reveals the components of the Enlightenment project

in order to define in it the creative, life-like and actual for the conditions of the

Postmodern era. The points of deformation of the Enlightenment project in the terms of

the Modern and post-modern era are determined. The author recognizes the urgency of

creating a new Enlightenment.

Keywords: Project of the Enlightenment, Modern, Postmodern, creativity, rejection of

creativity, saving the Enlightenment project, the new Enlightenment.

GENETIC / TYPICAL / ORIGIN CONTEXTS OF PAREMIOLOGICAL

LANGUAGE IN CULTURAL DIVERSITY.

Viorica Popa, Associate Professor PhD,

„Alecu Russo” Bălți State University, Republic of Moldova

.

In the 21st century we are not concerned only with the knowledge of our

spirituality and culture, but also with our personality in the context of world history, with

the ability to "traverse" (to express yourself in) languages. The new psycho- and

sociolinguistic approaches demonstrate that "a people cannot be known very well unless

you oppose and compare it with other peoples after you have studied it yourself.

Knowledge of others always helps to clarify and make clear the knowledge of yourself "

(D. Draghicescu). The paper presents possible variants in which Latin proverbs and

maxims appeared, circulated and developed in French, Romanian and Russian.

Reupdating genetic contexts, fixing generic ones and integrating social experiences, the

proverbs either preserve the initial expressive values or offer them an extra semantic

load.

Keywords: paremiological language, diversity, culture, latin.


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APPARENT AND LATENT IN INTRA AND

INTERCULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF THE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE

Veronica Gaspar, Associate Professor PhD,

National University of de Music, București

The present essay aims at highlighting some constants and variables which occur

in the communication of the musical experience, whether synchronously, in direct artistic

displays or in transmission processes from one generation to the next.

We distinguish three nodal ways which are involved in the preservation of the

musical dowry: teaching, symbols and text. The educational processes are related to the

degree of social participation as well to the intrinsic structure of a specific musical

culture. The transposition into a semantic sphere, meaning literary or mystical

correspondences or myths could be seen as an enantiomorphic reflexion of the

subsequent non-verbal symbols issued from the direct artistic act, no matter the cultural

type. The text, or its substitutes, more or less encoded (carving, images, numbers etc.)

could be ultimately considered as a synthesis of the other two preservation ways.. It

reflects both the power of symbols on the social values and the particularities of the

artistic tradition, including its pedagogical dimension.

We intend to bring again into focus those common elements and coincidences,

which are paradoxically linking remote cultures in time and space. Meanwhile, we also

aim at mentioning several types of cultural communication, especially those concerning

the ticklish issue of the ratio between contamination and preservation.

Keywords: Symbols, music, contamination-preservation.

THE IDENTIFICATION OF CHILDREN WITH HIGH APTITUDINAL

POTENTIAL WHICH COME FROM DIFFERENT CULTURAL

BACKGROUNDS

Chelariu Adelina, Vrabie Tina, Neculau Andreea

PhD candidates, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences,


At the international level, identifying children with high aptitudinal potential is

a priority of the education systems, being implemented various strategies in order to

identify this particular category of students. The identification process has the role to

include gifted children in special programs, so that their training is based on a

differentiated curriculum which corresponds to their needs and provide them a

stimulating environment that is beneficial to their development.

Although each student deserves an education that meets his unique needs of

development and exploitation on his potential and for this have been developed such

special programs, the specialized literature mentions a number of categories of students

who are under-represented in these programs, namely: students belonging to certain


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cultural minorities, students who are part of low-income families and students who come

from rural areas. In this article it is discussed the importance of correct identification of

children with high aptitudes who come from different cultural backgrounds and the role

of the teacher in this process.

Keywords: identification, different cultural backgrounds, children with high

aptitudinal potential

CONTEXTUAL DETERMINATIONS AND

ABUSIVE INTERPRETATIONS IN SALVADOR DALÍ'S WORK

Diana-Elena Vizitiu, PhD. student,

Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences

”Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi.

Artists, regardless of the artistic field they are coming from, have always been

influenced in their creations by the events occurred within the contexts in which they

lived or worked as artists. If, for example, the medieval art was focused on religion, the

Renaissance has revived the art of Antiquity. In the modern art of the twentieth century

we encounter an artist who has exceeded the collective influence and showed a high

degree of artistic flexibility, thus, he was able to transform his creations according to the

novelties brought by science, culture or politics. Salvador Dalí is one of the artists who

stood out the most from the cultural movement that he belonged (Surrealism). This fact

is related to a number of causes, of the specific of some contexts that led to an

understanding and an abusive interpretation of the artist on his own works of art, on some

paintings that belong to other artists (for example Jean-François Millet) or even to his

own life. This paper aims to analyze the dalinian work in terms of multiple contexts to

uncover the causes that led to this eccentricity and the effects produced in the world of

art but also the effects on the relation: creator (transmitter) - art consumer (receiver). The

public sphere, with the most important intercultural changes from his period, represents

the key aspect in understanding and decoding Dali’s artworks and we think that is

important to emphasize the way in which the Spanish artist succeeded to create a dialogue

between receiver and the big events that have influenced the whole world.

Key words: context parameter, interpretation, public sphere,work of art.

INTERCUTURALITY IN EDUCATION: FROM DIVERSITY

TO GENUINE ACTION

Elena Ichim, Master candidate, anul I,


“Al. I. Cuza” University, Iași

The various socio-cultural contexts we are exposed to, make us develop our ability

to understand cultural diversity today. The educational system as a subsystem of public

policies requires strategic approaches in order to research a new paradigm of behavior


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and action, adopting the inter-dimensional characteristics and diminishing

ethnocentrism. The paper proposes the investigation of two reflection fields. Firstly, we

aim to analyse the phenomenon of diversity as a central impact on society. Secondly, we

propose to implement educational practices in order to take on new manners of

interaction, valorization and conduct in managing cultural differences. Interculturalism

is still a rhetorical element present in public discourses which, in most cases, does not

involve action.Incorporating viable legislative frameworks on intercultural policies can

influence the reduction of social breaches by relying on stability, equilibrium, equity. It

becomes a challenge such as that of intercultural dialogue through constructive cultural

experiences: conferences, seminars, meetings, forums, workshops, cultural trainings. All

this would represent a new viable methodological route where educators can form the

capacity to recognize and capitalize on human diversity.

The sine qua non condition of equitable development in today's society calls for

intercultural dialogue, being the best guarantee of social cohesion, thus creating a

positive cohabitation, not only the future, but also for the present as well.

Keywords: education, diversity, intercultural policies.

FROM ACCULTURATION TO MULTICULTURALISM

AND CULTURAL CONFLICT

Alina Ilinca, Senior advisor, CNSAS, București,

Liviu Marius Bejenaru, Senior advisor, CNSAS, București

There is no classic definition of culture, but one of the guidelines, known as the

cultural theory of personality, refers to the fact that consists on values structures, beliefs

and behavior patterns learned in social experience and transmitted through education,

socialization and acculturation.

This paper aims to present how much acculturation and multiculturalism

represent forms of ethno-cultural differences management, which become sources of

ethno-political conflicts. The analysis focuses mainly on education. The acculturation

criticism brings into question the fact that, this way, the specific of minority culture is

cancelled, and diversity has an encompassing valence reunited under the name of

multicultural or intercultural education.

No culture is superior to others. A culture is empathized when it is related to

others. The conflicts between cultural models have more serious consequences than the

conflicts within the cultural core, being considered as one of the major sources of

delinquency, social maladjustment and conflict situations.

In ethno-political terms, the question is whether we witness an indigenization of

cultures, to the prejudice diversity expense? Or in others words, how close are we in the

Eurabia and submission (Michel Houellebecq), or in a clash of civilization (Samuel P.

Huntington)? In Mai Yamani’s opinion, many young Muslims are utterly preoccupied


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with events in Arab and Muslim world. As a result, the West’s strategic choices appear

deeply anti-Islamic for the young susceptible to radicalist Muslims.

Keywords: acculturation, multiculturalism, cultural conflict.

THE MANAGEMENT OF DIVERSITY

Bocșa Ovidiu and Bocșa Mioara, independent researchers,

teachers to "Ion Pop Reteganul" Secondary School

in Petru Rareş, county BN, Romani

In this work, we started from the aphorism 78 of Thedor W. Adorno` Minima

Moralia. More precisely: ”Snow White expresses, more perfectly than any other fairy-

tale, the idea of melancholy. Its pure picture is the queen, who gazes into the snow

through the window and wishes for her daughter in terms of the lifeless, animated beauty

of the snow-flakes, the black sorrow of the window-frame, the stab of bleeding; and then

dying in childbirth… All contemplation can do no more, than patiently delineate the

ambiguity of melancholy in ever new figures and approaches. The truth is not to be

separated from the delusion that one day, out of the figures of appearance [Schein], there

would nonetheless be salvation.” Diversity`s management carries the nostalgia of

morality, from the moment of a spark of consciousness.

To lead people is to lead them properly for good. The ambiguity of good is

related to heteronomic aspects, which the autonomy of the will seems to hold on to

utopia. The idea of ideas in moral philosophy tends to utopia, ideologies, reiterated

"cunning of history." The color tint that is obtained by passing the brush across multiple

colors expresses - as if the moral act - the removal of the primary colors in the desire to

encompass many colors without canceling their identity. Beyond the dwarf fruit of

diversity management, it seems to be their taste (sweet of smile, or bitter of suffering, or

salty tears, etc.), but also their memory, that is, attempts of good will. This pattern also

shows a kind of woven education/blending learning for acceptable variants. Education

remains under the same vulnerability as human resource management.

Keywords: nuances, dwarves of morality education challenges, academic management,

braided learning.

ARTS EDUCATION AT SCHOOL IN EUROPE

Anca Iorga, Lecturer, PhD., Univ. Spiru Haret,

Facultatea de Educaţie Fizică şi Sport, Bucureşti.

Artistic education prepares and develops in people the need for art and beauty,

and teaches young people the science of using art and beauty. European artistic


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education is subject to many competitive requirements that influence its

organization and content.

All countries of the European Union, including Romania, included visual

arts and music in the curriculum, half of them include theater, and dance and other

arts are part of other curricular areas. Through artistic education, children and

young people learn to find inner harmony and to live in a balanced way, finding

the most correct solutions between imaginative living and real actions, between

dream and reality, between individual aspirations and achievements in the real

plan, which they have to their own person and to those around them.

Art has suggestive, constructive and dynamic features that are beneficial

to young people by achieving a balance of the individual. Art education develops

artistic sensitivity, which has real consequences on the human intellect.

Keywords: artistic education, creativity, cultural diversity.

THE HOLOCAUST - FROM TRAGIC TO COMIC

Lavinia Maria Pruteanu, Principal Psychologist, lect., PhD.,

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,

"Petre Andrei" University from Iasi

The artists' courage to attack the Holocaust has managed to overcome all kinds

of social prejudices. An extremely painful moment in the history of humanity must be

perceived / understood in its authentic, tragic dimension. Temporal removal makes it

easy for us, and the approach to the comic book. In cinematography we meet in The Day

Clown Cried or La vita e bella. In the literature, Anne Frank's Journal, although it is a

terrifying testimony of that period, is pigmented with tragicomic samples of the author's

adolescent intelligence, becoming so brutal, wise. In America over the pogrom and the

Last Cigarette of Fondane, Cătălin Mihuleac surprises, sophisticated and profoundly, a

multitude of plans, life situations, dramatic, tragic or comic, fictional or real experiences

of that era. The dynamics of the perception of the Holocaust, reflected in art, contributes

to the identification of a "multicultural" psychological profile of contemporary posterity.

Keywords: Holocaust, tragicomic, art.

THE FEMININE PERSONAGE OF THE ITALIAN OPERA IN THE EUROPEAN

CULTURAL CONTEXT OF THE 19th CENTURY.

Stylistical - interpretative analysis of the role of Elvira

from opera I Puritani of Vincenzo Bellini

Cristina Simionescu, univ. conf. PhD.,

„G. Enescu” Nat. Univ. of Arts, Iași, Romania

With the advent of romance, the musical center of opera music is restored in

Italy. Vincenzo Bellini is one of the composers who has dedicated himself to vocal


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writing, opera, especially, and has developed and innovated this musical genre

throughout his ten masterpieces. The Opera Puritans, in three acts, on a libretto by Carlo

Pepoli, after the novel Old Morality by Sir Walter Scott and the historical drama Têtes

rondes et cavaliers by Jacques-François Ancelot and Joseph-Xavier Boniface Saintine, I

Puritani, was composed for the Théâtre Italien, after Bellini's arrival in Paris in 1833,

where he experienced a "artistic revival" at that time. The absolute premiere took place

on the same Paris scene on January 24, 1835, being a remarkable success that would

remain in the universal lyrical history, being acclaimed by Rossini himself, who said

"Bellini is born, you can not become." Bellini felt the closest to the intense dramas and

experiences of moral stakes, both in topics and music, demonstrating universality and

value over time.

Keywords: Italian opera, musical language, European culture.

TECHNICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE REPORTING IN THE WOLFGANG

AMADEUS MOZART CAMERA MUSIC

(TRIO, CVARTET AND ENTERTAINMENT)

Lucia Diaconu, Associate Professor, PhD.,

„George Enescu” University of Arts, Iași, Romania

In his short life, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed an enormous number of

musical creations, most unmatched in beauty or depth. In 1862 Ludwig von Köchel

classified and cataloged Mozart's compositions, numbered with the mention KV

(Köchel-Verzeichnis = Köchel Catalog). His latest creation, Requiem, has the number

626. Mozart was the creator of 41 symphonies, 27 concerts for piano and orchestra, 7

concerts for violin and orchestra, concerts for clarinet, for harp and flute, for horn and

orchestra, 2 Concert symphonies, entertainment, serenades. In the field of chamber

music, the 6 string quartets dedicated to Haydn, piano sonatas, violin and piano sonatas,

violin trivia, cello and piano, quartets for wind instruments, sextet, a musical joke, etc.

are mentioned. Passionate for the opera, he composed 17 works, among which the most

famous, played today on the stage of all the theaters of the world's works, are: Seraphion,

Figaro's Wedding, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, Enchanted Flute. He also composed 19

plays, singing, soprano and orchestra motes, orchestra "Die Schuldigkeit des ersten

Gebots" and "Requiem" in re minor. What is characteristic of his music is the variety of

characters and images created, their alternation with speed, caught in the performance of

the musical discourse. The eternal dilemma of Mozart's musician is the realization of the

"complicated simplicity" of his works. The interpreter must have the inner mobility that

allows him to move quickly and naturally, from the suggestion of a state, an expression,


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a character, an image to another. All this must be accomplished by a clear, diverse sound,

with many contrasts, different stamps, in a natural and convincing phrasing.

Keywords: chamber music, musical language, interpretative technique.

CONTRIBUTION IN MUSICAL EDUCATION

Luminita Ciobanu,

Lecturer univ dr, UNAGE Iasi

In order to appreciate the value of specific musical training into the first levels

of education, the various benefits of this training in the lives of much younger children

must first be recognized.If simply listening to music is enhances a child’s mind, then

incorporating the musical training in to a child’s curriculum must be even more helpful.

The standardized test scores given to some groups, proved that real effect of musical

training on intellectual abilities are larger, last longer above non-musical activities. We

believe that the early musical training, with an emphasis on sensory motor activity helps

children be expressively and perceptively within their environments. The research

results shown that the children in the experimental groups had more improved test scores

than the control group during the first two years of study. Also, the healing properties of

music are a huge asset in the continuing of music as an educational program through the

junior high and high school level.

Keywords: music education, child’s mind, healing properties.

THE ITALIAN OPERA IN THE EUROPEAN CULTURAL CONTEXT OF THE 19TH

CENTURY. Historical and stylistical incursion in the Italian lyric-drama manner at

Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini

Doina Dimitriu Ursachi, Associate Professor PhD.,

„George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, Romania

The European culture of the 19th century is a tribute to the Italian opper music

through its thematic and musical diversity, which it offered by the contribution of great

musicians. Thus, Gioacchino Rossini composed especially in the genre of the buffa

opera, proving an amazing creative force. His subjects were simple, but never simplistic,

the dramaturgy was balanced without being busy, and the vocal interpretation and

accentuation of the remarkable orchestra's weight. The composer will bring to the music

a real revitalization of the theatrical spirit. Giuseppe Verdi, through his work of creation,

including a significant number of works, can be delimited in three evolutionary stages,

beginning with Oberto (1839) and ending with Falstaff (1893), the stylistic route,

although unitary, recording significant transformations under the influence of some

Important factors: French theater and opera, the development of vocal technique, the

amplification of the orchestra and its role in the interpretative act. Giacomo Puccini,

through the realistic vigor of the subjects, the musical poetics, the graduation mode of


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the dramatic tensions, the direct, spontaneous, accessible nature of the Puccinian musical

language, the perfect knowledge of the physiology of the voices, the technique of the

musical instruments, the intention to give a true interpretation The subject, the force of

declamation without an obvious concern for vocal effects, are some defining elements

for Puccini's work. In the thematic mosaic approached by the composer, the cultivation

of a slender melodic line, of small forms and the recourse to the Western-minor minor,

but at the same time resuming the modal conception of the past centuries bring novelty

and expressiveness to his creation.

Keywords: Italian opera, musical language, European culture.

THE HERMENEUTICAL DIALOG BETWEEN

MUSIC AND SCIENCE

Calin Farcasel, univ. Lecturer, PhD,

„George Enescu” University of Arts, Iași, Romania.

The present article emerges from question if the fine arts of the twentieth century

are congruent with time, or in other words, if they are still belong to their own history

and how exactly. On the other part, the same question is addressed to science, if it

continues it`s history and how much of it crosses the culture itself. More precisely, if

there`s a dialogue between them. As part of fine arts and according to my professional

skill area, I`ve choose music to be the main subject of finding some ties between it and

the science, starting with a brief history of the most represented figures and their works

over the twentieth century. So, I found the denial spirit of what was traditional in music,

starting with composers like Arnold Schonberg, Arthur Hoenegger or Alban Berg. The

dodecafonic serialism promoted by them has been later replaced by the aleatorism and

invention, both property of John Cage`s music, further reaching a pure mathematical

composition style, massively enriched with electronic sounds, found in works of French

theoretician and composer Iannis Xenaxis.

I found the revolutionary state of music being shared also by great achievements

of the twentieth century`s science, which deeply shaked the all-around vision about

world. Starting with the well-known Einstein`s relativity theory (1905) and ending with

the first cloning of an adult animal (1997), it can be perceived a progressive distance

decrease between invention and it`s application, caused by a continuous seeking of

human life improvement. Until the end of this article, it is shown the backbone of all

those researches, both in music (and culture at most) and science. It`s about the element

of New, ruled by freeing thinking and creation, but mandatory accompanied by a “t”.

That “t”, which`s animating both a musical instrument and the whole Universe, is the

abbreviated version of the word talent.

Keywords: hermeneutical dialog, science, art, talent.


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FROM DIFFERENCE TO DIVERSITY: THE USE OF FILMS IN THE

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION CLASS

Sorina Chiper, Lect. PhD

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi

Intercultural communication classes gain a lot from including films in the

teaching and training process. Just like in the case of acquiring a language, developing

skills in intercultural communication would require immersion in a new cultural context.

However, due to financial restraints, such immersion is not always possible. One way of

developing trainees’ awareness of difference, acceptance of difference and

understanding of it as diversity is by exposing them to intercultural encounters through

films whose characters are engaged in cultural dilemmas, undergo processes of

intercultural learning or acculturation, and go beyond their initial ethnocentric views. My

presentation will focus on four films: A Passage to India, Outsourced, Gung Ho, and Lost

in Translation, and it will show how these films teach about culture, as well as highlight

patterns of interaction and of personal change as a result of intercultural encounters

through work and travel.

Keywords: films, intercultural communication, intercultural competence.

POLISH MESSIANISM IN CENTRAL EUROPE AND ITS IMPACT ON NATION-

BUILDING PROCESS IN THAT REGION

Robert Mieczkowski, politologist, political anthropologist,

PhD. candidate, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński

University at Warsaw, Poland.

The aim of this paper is to present an analysis of importance of the literary works

in process of formation of national identity in Poland and also Central and Eastern

Europe, and then in maintaining this identity. In Poland great role in times of formation

of modern national identity played significant literary writers like Adam Mickiewicz

(slavophilia, polish messianism, mysticism) and Juliusz Slowacki (polish messianism

and mysticism), we can also mentioned Severyna de domo Żochowska Pruszakowa, or

Jozef Bohdan Zaleski. In this presentation I will refer in same extent also to the different

concepts of the formation of nations, narrativism and constructivists approach. In

Ukraine, for example, functioned so-called, Ukrainian School of Polish Romanticism,

which also will be some part of my narration during conference. One of the prominent

representatives of that school was Joseph Bohdan Zaleski, he presented himself as the

incarnation of the Russian bard Bojan, from Old Russian poem "The Word about Igor's

expedition" - „Słowo o wyprawie Igora”, was a supporter of the idea of Pan-Slavism

based on the federal structure of the First Polish Republic and the Catholic Church. With

such formulated January uprising assumptions was related the problem of obtaining

supporters among the representatives of these nations, for which political freedom did


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not have yet mean participation in the Central European federation with Poland with the

primary importance.

Keywords: Central-Eastern Europe, nation-building process, literary creation, national

mentality, postcolonialism, critical discourse analysis.

ART, COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION

BY SYMBOLS

Corina Matei Gherman, Coordinator,

Cultural Projects, Cultural Scientific Association Pleiadis, Iaşi. Doina Guriţă, Dr.ec.

Asociaţia Jurnaliştilor şi Scriitorilor de Turism, Iasi

Art is essentially the most profound expression of human creativity. In a broad

sense, the term art means any activity that is based on knowledge, exercise, perception,

imagination and intuition. In a strict sense, add to the above lack of functional

practicality, knowledge, aesthetic. Communication is key between people through which

they communicate to each other their thoughts, ideas, concerns, etc., related to everyday

life, professional concerns, it may take different forms and can be personal and non

personal. In our case of communication through art. in the form of sensations, perceptions

or representations, visual or auditory representations, object perceived by the senses or

reproduction of an object obtained using an optical system; plastic representation of the

appearance of a being, a thing, a life scenes, a painting from nature, etc., obtained through

drawing, painting, sculpture, etc. Education has the task of preparing man as active

element of social life. Plato defined education as "the art of forming good habits or

develop skills Native virtue of those who have them." Aristotle in his "Politics", believes

that "education should be an object of public oversight, and not private. " As we see

between communication, education and art is a strong bond.

Keywords: communication, education, culture, sacred geometry, art, history.

Clasificare Jel: M 3, L 82, L 83, D 83.

THE ARTISTIC VISION OF A GREAT CONFESSOR

Titiana Marcu, PhD, Assist. Prof.,

Faculty of Arts, University of Oradea.

Remarking the great personality of Father Arsenie Boca, I wanted to highlight,

once again, his outstanding activity, not only as a monk, but also as icon painter. Father

Arsenie Boca is increasingly revealing himself to us. I found a new man, a new thinking,

another way to perceive life in relation to God, but also to the world.

Remarkable painter of sacred painting and, at the same time, a true painter of

souls, Father Arsenie Boca was a great man of culture, but also a philosopher of science

and religion. What distinguished him from many other spiritual advisers with grace was


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his uniqueness, the ability to transform people, to bring to light what is good, beautiful

and pure in them.

In the painting from the church in Drăgănescu, Father Arsenie descended the

Divinity on earth and exalted man toward the Divinity. His painting has never been

dissociated from the divine word in the process of transmitting the revelation. Receiving

the Christian message in this way, people live with the human face of Him who spoke

the word, but also with this word of His. The painting in the small church is an open

window to the spiritual world, which helps us participate in the divine service, the

iconographic art being essentially liturgical. Father Arsenie felt the plasticity of form and

succeeded in rendering it, not only through combinations of lines and colors, but also

through a fair distribution of light and shadow. In this regard, I can say that the

representation of Jesus Christ in the Resurrection scene, as well as that of the Wedding

of the Emperor's Son scene, is a masterpiece.

The painting of Drăgănescu church is an attraction for any pilgrim who comes

here and, regardless of culture, civilization or religion, the visitor looks pleasantly

surprised at this work of art that sums up genuine Christian pleadings.

Keywords: church, painting, art.

BULLYING IN ROMANIAN SCHOOLS -

THE MAIN STUDIES AND RESEARCHES

Tudorița Grădinaru, PhD. Candidate,

"Al. I. Cuza" University, Iași.

Romanian society has witnessed profound political, social and legislative

changes over the last 20 years. The traditional model of sanctioning and correction child

promotes physical violence according to the Romanian word "beating is taken from

heaven". Romania's accession to the European Union in 2007 was an important moment

for the reconsideration of the status of the child in the family and society as a result of

the Romanian legal framework’s adjustment to the European one. Although Romania is

pioneering in research into bullying behaviors, studies and researches conducted so far,

indicate an increased prevalence of aggression in schools. However, our country is in

line with global trends in this phenomenon.

The results of researches show that in school, repeatedly, 3 out of 10 children

are excluded from the group by their peers, 3 out of 10 children are threatened with

beating or hitting by their peers, and 1 in 4 children have been humiliated in front of

classmates. Bullying has negative consequences for both the school climate and the

actors involved (aggressors, victims and spectators). 33.8% of students surveyed

frequently show abusive abusive behaviors (bullying), 40.5% are frequently victimized

by their peers, and 33.9% have prosocial behaviors by their peers.


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The most common types of bullying experienced by victims are physical

violence, bullying, teasing, nicknames, ironies and imitations.

Keywords: bullying, victims, bystander.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILES OF ADOLESCENTS WITH HIGH

INTELLECTUAL ABILITIES IDENTIFIED IN THE LITERATURE

Roxana I. Holic, PhD. Candidate,

"Al. I. Cuza" University, Iași.

The objective of this study was to identify in the existing literature the

psychological profiles of adolescents with high intellectual abilities. Although there is

not a large number of such studies, we can mention three of the categories identified by

the authors concerned with this topic. Thus, we will summarize the presentation of the

profiles found by Roeper (1982), which mainly refers to the emotional needs and the way

people with high intellectual abilities manage their emotions. He identified five types :

The Perfectionist, The Child / Adult, The Competition Winner, The Self-Critic, and The

Well-Integrated Child. Betts and Neihart (1988) make a theoretical profile model that

embraces their needs, feelings and behaviors, mentioning the existence of six different

types: The Successful, The Divergent, The Underground, The dropouts, The double –

labeled, and The Autonomous learner. Another typology of the personality profiles of

adolescents with high intellectual abilities that has exacerbated the literature has been

conceived using the concept of overexcitabilities introduced since 1967 by Dabrowski.

Thus, five types of overexcitabilities have been identified among this population:

psychomotor, sensual , emotional, intellectual, and imaginational.

Keywords: psychological profiles; psychological profiles; special needs.

LITERATURE AND INTERCULTURALITY

Elena Negoiță, teacher, PhD., Naţional Colege

„Dimitrie Cantemir”, Oneşti, Bacău.

Literature - the art of the word - is, according to Adrian Marino, a social reflex

developed in a social context, a propaganda tool, a form of reflection on human essence

and existence. Throughout the millennia, the manifestations of the arts were conclusive

elements in highlighting the relationships between cultures. The history of humanity

contains multiple examples of artistic expression, resulting from the coexistence of

different cultural universes. The phenomenon of interculturality involves not only

contact between cultures, but the existence of a dialogue between them, interaction and

mutual influence. Literary texts demonstrate this interculturality, both at the level of


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biographies and writers' mentalities, and at the level of character and literary fiction.

Keywords: interculturality, literature, history.

DIVERSITY OF PARENTAL MODELS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE

PREPARATION OF A POSITIVE PARENTAL STYLE WITH LOW SCHOOL

AGE CHILDREN

Gârțu Maria-Livia, Gimnazial School „Mihail Andrei”

Buhuși, Bacău and Ped. State Univ.

”Ion Creangă”, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.

The children’s education is a complex activity that includes a series of specific

behaviors that act individually or together to produce effects in young school children.

There is the conception that anyone can be a parent, in particular, according to the model

of their own parents. From this point of view, we are talking about the parental model. It

contains the parenting style, representing the way parents apply certain methods in

educating children, combining both the style of their parents and the elements of the

socio-cultural environment in which their family lives. The specialized literature

describes seven parental models: authoritarian parents, indulgent, protective,

inconsistent, indifferent, aggressive and effective parents from the perspective of the

behavioral and psychological control, as well as the parental support.

The behavioral control refers to parents' expectations that their rules should be

respected by children and that they behave appropriately, while the psychological control

refers to the "control attempt that invades the psychological and emotional development

of the child" by inducing negative feelings. The low school age (6/7-10/11 years) is the

period when the child enters the school and he completes the primary cycle. At this age,

it is important to relate with parents who send evaluation messages about the actions,

behaviors of the child. The parental patterns vary according to culture, number of family

members, socio-economic status, parents’ education. It is good to know that one can not

talk about a particular parent model as a template applied to any situation

Keywords: parental model, positive parenting style, low school age.

INTERCULTURALITY - THE FOUNDATION OF A DEVELOPMENT OF A

HEALTHY SOCIETY IN FULL GLOBALIZATION PROCESS

Dorotti Yacoob, Psychologist, pedagogue Professor,

Elim Christian Foundation, C.S.E.I. Number 1. Popeşti, Romania

With the advent of globalization, more and more societies are trying to adapt to cultural

diversity. It can be said that this work of modern society has led to the shaping of ideas such as

cultural relativism, which attempts to disseminate the idea of equality between cultures, trying to


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limit the hierarchies at the cultural level. Through the idea of cultural pluralism, it seeks to draw

attention to the treasures that all the world's cultures gathered over the time through individual

experiences provide. Through the theory of multiculturalism, it tries to reduce the anxiety of

homogeneous societies, who subconsciously fear cultural contamination. By interculturality

approach,are outlined interaction possibilities based on reciprocity, exchange, solidarity, in the

idea of preventing, cultural rejection generated by fear of total homogenization and complete

disappearance of the cultural identity of societies. Each cultural society, throughout history, has

generated a multitude of stereotypes and prejudices related to various other cultures.

The permeability to education / learning through human interaction is a characteristic of

the social being in us. This feature has opened the way for evolution. Sometimes resistance to

influence is welcome when we think about the transfer of prejudices or stereotypes that lead to

discrimination. Consumer culture has emerged and propagated with speed in most societies, we

could say that this is due to the lack of resistance to influence. In order to identify the needed

conditions for the development of a healthy intercultural society, it is necessary to detect cognitive

distortions and disadaptive cognitive schemes of cultures that share the same time and space. It

is necessary to acquire a deep reciprocal knowledge of the cultures of the respective societies and

to identify functional strategies that allow the formation of a genuine and optimally functional

intercultural society, increasing the capacity for real integration of diverse cultural individuals.

Keywords: interculturality, globalization, discrimination, culturaly responsive

education, social integration.

ADDRESSING CULTURAL DIVERSITY FOR A BETTER INTEGRATION OF

ROMA ETHNIC CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS APPEALING TO SENSITISE

TEACHERS WITH REGARD TO CULTURALY RESPONSIVE EDUCATION

Dorotti Yacoob, Psychologist, pedagogue Professor,

Elim Christian Foundation, C.S.E.I. Number 1. Popeşti, Romania

The integration of Roma ethnic into the country's major society is still a

challenge. The problems faced by this ethnicity could not be solved until present.

Cultural differences that are not yet mutually asimileted between the two cultures are one

of the main barriers. One of the consequences of integration problems is early school

leaving. It seems that ethnic Roma drop out of school because "nothing in their depth of

their traditional values can be recognized by Roma children or parents in the school

system." Introducing a Cultural Responding Education could facilitate their integration

into the society. Educating teachers with reference to everything related to culture, the

traditions of the Roma ethnicity is the first step. The workshops created on the topic had

the purpose of opening a path of knowledge, understanding, empathy with the ethnics of

a culture that, remaind unchanged over the time. Culturally responsive communication

strategies found together with the teachers during the workshops open a path towards

better interaction with the Roma ethnics. The next step would be to devote such programs

to ethnic Roma in their communities so that they know and understand the culture and

customs of the major society.


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Without reciprocal understanding of the two cultures, integration can not be achieved.

Keywords: culturaly responsive education, Roma ethnicity, social integration.

ABOUT NUMBERS, FROM A TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE

Cristian Ungureanu, lecturer, PhD,

University of Arts “George Enescu”, Iasi

The rediscovery and enhancement of the ancient symbolic meanings of numbers,

mathematical and symbolical can help us understand better the standards, canons or

constructive techniques of the pictorial space used by the masters of the traditional

periods in art history. This approach of art theritory could be a viable alternative to the

identity crisis that defines the contemporary art.

The purpose of this study is to provide a brief perspective on numbers, seen from

the traditional perspective as cosmic forces that intelligently ordain the elementary

energy configurations (atoms with everything inside it) to define ordered, harmonic

molecular structures (from Chaos, to simple structures and then always more complex

and complicated). We describe the fudamental valences of each number (from 1 to 12)

in interaction with the room (I hope to challenge them, to tell everyone what they know

or believe about each number), which I will illustrate with case studies, photo and video

animations). In short, the world (or worlds) we live in are now defined as complex energy

and information construction, which means resonance, translated by frequencies, which

are described by numbers, capable of transposing into geometric configurations. Here is

the common ground, no matter if we analyze simple or complex structures, stable or

unstable, etc

Keywords: numbers symbol, geometry, scheme, composition, transdisciplinarity.

INTERCULTURALITY AND JUSTICE

Alexandru Sava, Researcher, grd. III, PhD.,

Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Institute "Gh. Zane"

In the past decades, the Romanian legislation has offered a generous and detailed

support for a thorough harmonisation of cultural exchanges. Any culture is accepted,

supported and promoted, in its multiple expressions, as long as its members respect the

rule of law. A modern intercultural dialogue maintains as a reference point the equality

in rights and opportunities, and also the equality before the law.

While trying to avoid any hierarchising or marginalising tendency, one must still

always remember the rule of law denominator. An adequate protection and

encouragement of cultural diversity can only take place in a social environment where


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any abusive tendencies are being timely and correctly dealt with, so that no citizen,

regardless of culture, will suffer his/her rights.

The law defends multiculturalism and forbids any discriminatory attitude, but a

real attenuation of any asperities noticed within cultural interferences will only be

obtained through a process of education in a spirit for acceptance, and mostly through a

sustained intercultural dialogue.

Keywords: multiculturalism, legislation, human rights, cultural diferences.

IMAGERY IN ROMANTIC POETRY

Tinni Dutta, PhD, Lecturer,

Department of Psychology, Asutosh College, University of Calcutta

Romantic poetry expresses the emotional world of man bearing varied touches

of affective reality. The Romantic poets differ in their creation of different sorts of

imagery. Their choice imagery reveals not only their sensory capacities but also their

visions, values and the unique personality pattern with which they are gifted.

In this present study imagery of Romantic Poetry would be taught to psycho

dynamically analyze through Rorschach Ink Blot test developed by Klopfer & Klofer. It

is interesting to note that such analysis offers a parallel with the biographical findings

perceived by the critics. Name Imagery Analysis through Rorschach

Wordsworth Blue sky, light raindrops,

Splendor in grass

Colour & Form- Integration

with emotion and rationality

Keats Tender night, soft dying day Tactual in nature- infantile

craving for contact,

affectionate needs

Longfellow Sea, air, sun Depth perception handle his

anxiety with an intellectual

cloak

Tagore Vast green shore, spring

flowers

Colour and form with depth

and distance- serene balance

of mind

In view of such outreaching critics’ comments could be recalled. Wordsworth -

‘Everything seems to have passed simply and cordially without transport of affection or

outburst of passion.’(Legouis, 1967).

Keats exalts a sensuous approach to reality, exclaiming, ‘ O for a life of sensation rather

than of thought’. (Sengupta, 1986). Longfellow is always affective and associative rather

than analytic and theoretic in response to life.(Unger Leonard, 1974). Tagore - ‘a man

marked by serene balance of mind and emotion and was unshaken by criticism,

disappointment and adversity’ (Church,1961).

Keywords: poetry, imagery, romantism.


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CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN TEACHING DYSLEXIC STUDENTS

Christina Gatsakou, B.A. in Philosophy, Pedagogics, Psychology,

M.A. in Applied Linguistics, Philologists and English teacher, Athens, Greece

We present in this paper the idea that there could be cultural and societal

differences in offering educational process to dyslexic students.

Firstly, I will briefly outline the value of using games in education and how they

can function as the field where young learners may cultivate their creativity and critical

thinking. Another essential point that this paper deals with is the definition and the nature

of dyslexia and how we can exploit the issues raised by this learning difficulty in the

educational process in the differences of the society. Concluding, we will attempt to

describe how the application of the “Theatre of mind” regarding teaching dyslexic

students, based on the theoretical model of the game, may incorporate valuable learning

principles in order to support not merely learners’ cognitive knowledge but also the

development of their personality.

Keywords: society, culture, dyslexia, education.

ROMA CHILDREN – INTEGRATION

IN SOCIETY AND EDUCATION

Eirini Tseliou, Research Assistant/Responsible for monitoring

the physical object of Programme Education

of Roma Children National and

Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

This paper focuses on the expansion of school activities inside and outside

school as part of an educational Programme at the University of Athens titled: Education

of Roma Children. With regard to the interventions at school units, planning involves

nine actions related to the increased enrollment of Roma children and their continuation.

This plan is closely related to the creation of conditions which favour and reinforce the

circumstances of integration and continued attendance of Roma children at school and

secondly reassure the acceptance of these children by the society in general.

The expansion of school activities inside and outside school refers to the design

and the operation of Student Creative Employment Workshops with parallel emphasis

on creative animation activities. The immediate goal is to create awareness and a sense

of acceptance among students towards the institution of education, the consolidation of

educational and cultural practices of students, by focusing on incorpotating elements of

language and artistic interests of Roma children in the educational process. For this

purpose, the workshops are enriched with artistic interdisciplinary and multicultural

activities, students’ recreation activities and creative thinking inside the school units.


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Between 2010-2015, its nine basic actions provided assistance to 1860 schools benefiting

about 46.000 students.

Keywords: Education, Roma Children, Student Creative Employment Workshops.

EMPATHY AND COMMUNICATION BY ART

Elena Tonikidi, Psychologist, artist / art-therapist,

Psychology-Art, Art-therapy Institute & School, Thessaloniki.

Art is one of the most refined ways of personality modeling, access to aesthetic

and moral values of society. The paper presents some of the defining elements of

communication through art, in the double sense of this process, from the work of art and

creator to the viewer, but also from the contemplator to the work of art and creator.

The key element of this double process is empathy, the ability to translate into

the emotional states of the other. It develops within a set of personality traits, including:

emotional intelligence, diversity of emotional feelings, cognitive skills, along with

motivation and personal ideals. Art is a mediator of communication but at the same time

an element of developing a general receptivity to the world and its authentic values.

Keywords: art, communication, empathy, creativity, art receiver, aesthetic judgment.

ARTISTIC PERSONALITY IN THE LIGHT OF

SOCIO-CULTURAL INTEGRATION

Maria Belea,

Dr. Psiholog Baia Mare – AIPRE (Roma, Italia)

Artistic personality was interpreted in various ways through the ages. The power

of creativity, individual perseverance and imaginative force made the artist a special

person, different from most people, being equipped with unique, unrepeatable skills. This

paper presents some of the most important approaches to the personality of the creator,

from the questionable Freudian theory to the psycho-biological approaches of Peckham.

Through his works, the artist expresses not only his personal anxieties or

emotional ardent feelings but also, reflects a conscious level of the social group, being

himself adapted to human values, characteristic of the era and society to which he

belongs. Maybe, sometimes, wrong regarded as deviant personalities or too much

exposed to excesses, artists remain, undoubtedly, brave in Creativity, in the cultural and

social original development process. Their integration in this ensemble completes the

picture we have about development and social evolution, and gives us access to more

elevated human values.

Keywords: artist, culture, society, social development, creativity.


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CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN CREATIVITY

Anamaria Gheorghiu, Psychologist, school counselor,

Highschool "St. Bârsănescu" Iaşi.

Creativity represents one of the most important dimensions of the human

personality. Culture and society always influence the ideas and the scope of the

creativity. Artists and their creation are the expression of the society in which they live

and themselves contribute to the ideals of society.

That is why we can analyse some differences whis exists between some cultures

and how they form the personality of the artist and his creations. These differences are

influenced by education, life-style, economic level and also, by the political-leadership

of the governments.

Keywords: creativity, culture, society, education.

TEENAGERS - CHARACTERISTICS OF CREATIVITY

Ioana Macovei, Psychologist,

Psychological Office AMA, Iaşi

Adolescence is the age characterized by the tendency of self-assertion. New

ideas, new enthusiasm and vision on life and things, make a teenager being creative in a

special way.

Shaping their own identity represents a complex process always accompanied

by creativity, ingenuity and originality, be it in the domain of arts, technical fields or

strictly theoretical.

Young people have ingenuity, possessing exceptional imaginative capacity and

many new ideas of adolescence, later become the foundation of serious preocupations

and creativity.

Keywords: adolescence, creativity, personality, self-affirmation.

THE CAT IN ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Irina Frasin Researcher PhD.,

Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch Institute "Gh. Zane"

Cats are extraordinary animals. They bring mystery to our lives and mesmerize

us with their magic, but also bring joy to our hearts and smiles on our faces. We love

them for their beauty and independence and welcome them in our homes, we see them

as friends and companions but we are still not able to fully understand them. These

allusive creatures share our lives but somehow continue to keep untouched their


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independence. We admire them and are fascinated by them and the more we try to figure

them out, the more they seem to escape our understanding.

This is why the purpose of the present paper is to try and shed a little light on

our relationship with them by the help of history of art and photography. We trace the

way the cat was seen and understood over time (using the way it was represented in art)

– from the sacred animal in ancient Egypt to the hated animal in the Middle Ages, the

companion of witches and the representative of the Devil till the fury friend that shares

our sofas. We try to see the connections, to understand the deep roots of the attitude

changes with all the implications. Loved or hated, the cat was always an animal that

raised extreme emotions. From the symbol of the Goddess of Fertility, to the bringer of

misfortune and disaster, the cat changed different masks. But it also helped us represent

our human emotions, fears and unrest in art, literature and psychology.

Keywords: cat, photography, history of art.

cultural diversity in art and education developing

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