ABSTRACTS
ARGATU, Daniela, DEVELOPMENT OF READING COMPETENCES IN
SCHOOL LIBRARIES
It is a universal truth that all human experience has been collected
throughout the history in books that were written by people for people and can not
stay away from them. Books must be read and the fact that their purchase has now
become a luxury requires adapting the profile and immediate intervention of
specialists and reading mediators namely – school librarians. Only the act of reading
will add value to books that every school library make freely available to its users
and will attest the fundamental law of the lecture philosophy: an open book is an
invitation to freedom, and once you have read it, you may do whatever you want,
because “the purpose of the school is to form free people”. It is, after all, the
consummation of an educational act that takes place in the wonderful space of the
library. Not for nothing are libraries said to be true indicators of a nation’s cultural
health.
BEHAWETZ, Afrodita, MATHEMATICS, IN TERMS OF THE CULTURAL
CONTRIBUTIONS THAT HAVE FORMED THE FIELD
The summary view presented in this article of the most important figures in
mathematics, from all times and places, including Romania, with details about their
lives or the context in which their works were written and their theorems and theories
produced, comes to show that mathematics can often be more interesting and
understandable to students, if teachers attend mathematical definitions, theorems and
the computations required by the study programs with such cultural and biographical
details.
222
BERCEA, Voichiţa; IOANOVICI, Ileana, TALKING TO CONTEMPORARY
WRITERS – AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT
The purpose of this interdisciplinary project, entitled Talking to
Contemporary Writers , is to offer a possible model of extracurricular activity, mainly
a cultural and educational one, which can be achieved within the CDI, through a
collaboration with several other departments, such as the Romanian language and
literature department, the music education, the art education and the informatics
departments in our high-school. Thus we meet the requirements of a modern teaching
system, strongly rooted in the contemporary reality.
Taking into account the fact that the financial resources granted for school
libraries in the last years have not provided funds for acquiring new books and
materials, we have raised the question of granting access for the students of our
school to the latest editorial novelties. The main objectives aimed at through the
activities in the project are supposed to have an impact on the development of
students as active readers, by using activities to popularize the latest books, as well
as to make reading more spread and attractive.
BRATU, Veronica, DEVELOPMENT OF PARTNERSHIPS AND
COLLABORATIONS THROUGH INFORMATION AND
DOCUMENTATION CENTRES
Why do we have to engage in school partnership? A question many ask
themselves…
The answer is: both pupils and teachers acquire new and relevant skills,
suitable not only for their professional development needs, but also for their personal
needs such as communication and presentation skills, decision making, problem
solving and conflict management, creativity, team work and solidarity/togetherness.
Schools have as a benefit: the motivation of their pupils, the growth of their interest
in school subjects and school work and their success as pupils.
223
CHIRIŢOIU, Floarea, INITIATION INTO THE TECHNIQUE OF
READING
L’importance de la lecture est évidente et toujours actuel. Lecture est un outil
qui développe la possibilité de communication entre les gens, se faisant l’écho des
compétences de la pensée et de la langue. Lecture à des enfants est un acte
intellectuel crucial qui doit être guidé et supervisé par l’école et la famille. Les
bibliothèques, même les plus petites, offrent un des meilleurs, plus accessibles
sources moins chers de la lecture et elles ont leurs livres sur les tablettes des enfants
et des parents. Aussi, il existe de nombreuses possibilités parascolaires dans lequel
on peut ouvrir une discussion sur les livres avec les enfants, qui ne doivent pas
associer de lecture avec une tâche imposée uniquement par l’école, mais découvrir la
lecture de sa propre initiative, de curiosité et de plaisir. Grâce à une étroite
collaboration entre l’école, bibliothèque et la famille, petits écoliers pourront
découvrir la joie de lire et de choisir de chaque texte lu ce qui est essentiel et utile.
CIOBANU, Elena-Corina, LIBRARY – SCHOOL COLABORATION WITHIN
THE COURSES OF ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Le biblioteche scolastiche devono diventare fonti d’informazione continua e
aggiornata, le presenze attive nella vita e nel mondo degli alunni. Dobbiamo trovare
nuove forme e metodi a operare con il libro che deve osservare nel miglior modo il
processo di ammodernamento dell’istruzione. L’alunno deve essere ben preparato a
diventare più ricettivo, abile allo studio e a informarsi da solo. Condurre un
approccio didattico aperto di lettura può essere benefico perché permette all’alunno
a creare, oltre la conoscenza del testo letterario e la consapevolezza del processo di
costituire il senso, a produrre in una certa misura un altro testo. Il posto ideale a
tale pratica didattica è proprio la biblioteca.
DUDAREC, Daniela, THE BOOK, OUR BEST FRIEND
The world of books – a wonderful world! But … how can we conquer it? At
what age can we enter the ‘gate’? At youngest age! It is the world we can enter since
224
we are little, provided only that we have people with us to guide our steps through it.
That is why the school has an important role in the discovery of this land for children.
Students come from different backgrounds with educated or less educated parents,
with parents that stimulate the interest of children for books. This task is assumed by
the class teacher. The books make the transition from the fabulous world of stories in
schools to the real world, clarified and explained yet through the epic. The more
attractively and emotionally narrated the story of the teacher is, extensively capturing
the attention of students, the more they identify with the story’s heroes; they want the
come-back or the follow-up of the story.
Arousing the interest in books can be more easily attained if the activities in
this regard go beyond the classroom or the child’s room, the libraries or bookstores
being the most suitable environments for offering the possibility of a working
environment and atmosphere conducive to reading, study and interactive activities. In
this paper, we present a project conducted in partnership with the Center for
Documentation and Information of our school and the municipal public library.
DUMITRESCU, Angela, MODERN TECHNIQUES OF COMMUNICATION –
KEY TO SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION BETWEEN LIBRARY AND
SCHOOL
Dans l’enseignement roumain, la redéfinition du paradigme de la
communication doit se faire en se basant sur une éducation fondée sur des valeurs
humanistes et conforme aux standards européens.
La bibliothèque scolaire fournit l’information et les idées indispensables à la
réussite dans la société d’aujourd’hui, réussite basée sur l’information et la
communication. La bibliothèque scolaire, en permettant aux élèves de maîtriser les
instruments qui les aident à apprendre tout au long de leur vie, développe leur
imagination et leur offre les moyens de devenir des citoyens responsables.
La mission de la bibliothèque scolaire est d’offrir à tous les membres de la
communauté scolaire des services d’éducation, de lecture, ainsi que d’autres sources
qui développent leur sens critique et qui leur permette d’utiliser efficacement
l’information quelle qu’en soient la forme et le support.
225
GIUCA, Ecaterina, GURGU, Lia, THE ROLE OF THE LIBRARY IN THE
INCREASE OF THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION PROCESS
The varied math activities held at the Center for Documentation and
Information with the students from primary school are more efficient in the
space offered by the CDI, due to the presence of the teacher, librarian or
research teacher which, by working together, can offer the possibility of a
personalized information according to the dowry of knowledge of each student
at a certain time. At the CDI, activation methods can be applied to students in
mathematics such as problematized teaching, educational games or work
processes such as: differentiation of student training examination,
differentiated learning through mathematical games or individualization and
personalization during the mathematical games.
GROSU, Ligia-Dana, GROSU, Georgia-Maria, READING IN TROUBLE?!
The National Project „Reading in trouble?!”, which reached its third edition,
strives to achieve two goals. On the one hand, the project aims to prove that returning
to the science/art of reading should be a goal for the modern school, which helps
students achieve both reading and communicative skills. On the other hand, the
project aims to update the principles and ideas of the International Book Council for
Children and Youth and make them more efficient.
The major goal of the project is to stimulate the students’ interest in reading,
in a world dominated by video and audio materials, and create a balance in their
lives between television, computer and reading. Conceived as an integrated project,
„Reading in trouble?!” deals with all three cross-curricular categories: education for
quality, education for business and education for cultural diversity.Both the
coordinating school and the partner schools should view the act of reading in the
spirit of the four principles of education promoted and proposed by the International
Education Commission for the Twenty-first Century: learning to know, learning to
act, learning to live together with others, learning to exist. Thus, the defining role that
education has in preparing all children for becoming active citizens in a dynamic
society, which is constantly changing, becomes evident. At the same time, education
helps to improve the quality of life.
226
Opening the project to all the meanings the idea of literature holds
accurately reveals the function of libraries in the educational process and justifies the
librarians’ constant concern about getting reading out of trouble.
IORGA, Mihaela, THE LIBRARY OF „TRAIAN-VUIA” THEORETICAL
HIGH-SCHOOL OF REŞIŢA
The prestige of a school is given by the library it detains. A school
without a library is an ‘amputated’ school; it lacks the breath necessary to
give force and substance. The library is to a school what a lung is to a living
organism. The library forms and educates the taste and sensitivity for reading
within the community of students, putting a decisive mark on their prospective
personality profile. In the modern world, under the sign of important changes,
the school and its library must be factors of progress, genuine agents of
unprecedented cultural dynamics. This status of change agent it is to be
understood in a natural relationship of cultural and educational partnership.
In the library of ‘Traian Vuia’ Theoretical High-school of Reşiţa, this
partnership works and the library is directly involved in teaching activities
and numerous cultural activities. The collections are largely adapted to the
current needs of the students, allowing us to enjoy the support of the school
management for providing funds for acquisitions.
KINDLEIN, Emil, NEW MEDIA VS OLD MEDIA
New media information is currently experiencing an extensive and
rapid development, so that we are required to prepare ourselves vigorously
and continuously in order to keep up with the new documentation and
information trends. The media, in its new variant, offers the access anytime
and anywhere to the content, it is interactive, participatory and promises the
democratization of creation, publication, distribution and consumption of
content. However, we introduce into discussion some arguments to balance
the ‘new media’ and ‘old media’ in terms of usefulness and viability. For
example, the Internet, whose advantages are undeniable and has become
227
almost the only source of information for students, in many cases it paralyzes
any initiative to study and read the books of a library, although in many cases
it leads to inaccurate and unverified information.
LOPĂZAN, Daniela, THE LIBRARY – A CONTEMPORANEOUS
NECESSITY OF INFORMATION
The library is not just a space filled with books; it is something significant,
something one carries along, it is a part of the self. Everyone has an ideal or a
concrete representation of the library, the latest being one where you step in every
day. For me, the library in Buzias is the place where I attended training courses, held
classes benefiting from audio-media equipment, books, internet connection, the place
where students suggested to run activities themselves, PowerPoint classes with
interpretations of screened novels, to present collages with relevant pictures,
according to the theme of the lesson and to pick expressive sound sequences. It is not
important just to have a library (school library but not only), but also to learn how to
read. This responsibility falls on the teacher, but also on the librarian. The latter can
be a guide for the beginning readers who do not know yet to find their way in this
„paradise” – as Borges named it, which is the library. Thus, they can get, through
guiding and quality directions, to reading, experienced readers. If by contradiction,
the library vanished, humankind would most certainly reinvent it, because it is the
meta-cognition of mankind, it is the report that, as by means of a science-fiction tale,
humankind could deliver relative to our planet, to the Universe.
LUNGOCI, Daciana Alexandra, MARKETING AND CULTURAL
ANIMATION – „VITAL” ACTIVITIES IN ROMANIAN SCHOOL
LIBRARIES
Même si la bibliothèque scolaire est une partie intégrante de l’éducation, la
formation et l’éducation, malheureusement, la situation actuelle et la position dans la
société n’est pas toujours optimale. Jouant un rôle actif dans la formation des élèves,
la bibliothèque scolaire devrait avoir un bon plan de gestion mis en place et aussi un
personnel concerné, pour assurer le succès et dans le même temps son efficacité, qu’il
228
faut être une incitation pour les apprenants, les petits futurs acteurs de la société du
savoir.
Notre article décrit et discute les activités de gestion et des activités
culturelles spécifiques, et il capte également les aspects pédagogiques à prendre en
considération dans les activités de la bibliothèque scolaire de nous d’être en mesure
d’affirmer la valeur et l’efficacité. Nous proposons des solutions éventuelles d’un
meilleur fonctionnement du système formatif, informatif et éducatif, en soulignant
l’importance de cette institution dans la société en jouant un rôle dans la création
d’identités. Voltaire a dit que „la connaissance n’est pas innée, parce qu’il n’y a pas
d’arbre sur le sol qui sort avec des feuilles et des fruits”, par conséquent, dans ce cas,
la bibliothèque est la sève des arbres, celle source de connaissances.
MARIAN, Adriana, PLEADING FOR THE PRINTED BOOK
The technological development has brought along different types of
reading, due to the different information media. But, apart from the subjective
arguments and sentimental attachment to printed books, we add that it is
easier to carry and it can be read anywhere, anytime, favoring a more
comfortable reading. It is true that a ‘book’ in electronic format is more
compact, often cheaper, it appears around the launch moment and it can be
heard impressing the reader’s voice (but the listener must be able to focus in
order to understand the message). It is likely that dictionaries, encyclopedias
on paper, some self-education textbooks and books, even some types of
commercial novels, which can easily be consulted electronically, disappear.
The electronic editions will be used for research, but for literature and leisure
reading, we believe that printed books will always be preferred.
MARINESCU, Nicoleta, PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, A LUXURY OR A
NECESSITY?
Le développement professionnelle, base sur une formation initiale solide
acquise dans une école de spécialité, oblige les professionnelles de l’info
documentation à une autoévaluation continue. La formation permanente est
229
obligatoire pour l’infodocumentaliste dans la société de l’information, ou les NTIC
connaissent une évolution rapide et il faut acquérir dans divers stages de formation
des compétences d’information, technologiques, de communication, de management.
ONEA, Lăcrămioara, THE BLOG – AN EFFICIENT TOOL OF
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES
The library is the heart of a school. To make known the rhythm of a school, a
librarian must know his duties well, identify its priorities, achieve his objectives and
make known his actions.
For a school heart to beat normally, any action must be brought to the
public, to the community. Atmosphere and hard work in the library must „make noise”
permanently beyond its walls. Students and their parents, teachers and community
can thus know its assets embodied in specific products and services. To survive, every
library needs today more than ever, a well-documented and effective promotional
policies implemented.
Along with other traditional methods of promotion already used in school
libraries, the blog turns out to be a modern marketing tool through which library
activity can be promoted more effectively.
Therefore, the librarian must adopt a permanently constructive professional
attitude, which implies good management practice in terms of both traditional and
modern services.
ONIŞORU, Viorica Genţiana, THE LIBRARY OF TEACHERS’ RESOURCE
CENTRE, AN ACTIVE FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL
AND EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS
This paper presents the experience of the Library of Teachers’
Resource Center of Alba in carrying out cultural and educational projects in
partnership, projects that had a significant info-documentary component. It
consists of several projects, summarized and addressed to different age levels,
from kindergarten to high-school, and the conclusions drawn upon their
development.
230
RÂMPU, Claudia, THE ADVANTAGES OF USING PARTICIPATIVEACTIVE
METHODS IN BIOLOGY CLASSES
All’interno dell’atto educativo, il professore, cosi come anche gli alunni,
agiscono per mezzo di alcuni metodi di insegnamento e apprendimento. La qualità
del loro lavoro è in base a questi metodi, essi costituendo una fonte significativa di
crescita della capacità e dell’efficienza dell’istruzione. Con l’applicazione dei metodi
particolari, si ottengono delle differenze essenziale nella preparazione degli alunni.
Non esiste attività di apprendimento e di insegnamento che non comprende la
necessità nella sua struttura di un certo modo in cui procedere, di una certa tecnica
di esecuzione, di realizzo della detta azione.
RÂMPU, Petru Laurenţiu, GROUP INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES AND
METHODS USED IN TEACHING GEOGRAPHY
La principale richiesta dell’istruzione progressista è quella di assicurare una
metodologia variata fondata sull’intreccio delle attività di studio e di lavoro
indipendente, con delle attività di cooperazione, di studio in gruppo e di lavoro
interdipendente.
RUBANEŢ, Marieta, MULTICULTURALITY AND INTERCULTURALITY,
CONTEMPORANEOUS TERMS
Intolerance has reached throughout the ages dramatic levels.
Multiculturalism is a concept that emerged during the years 1940-1960, when the
civil rights movement in the United States intensified. Past experience of the
American society imposed the conclusion that in order to achieve a cultural
consensus of the cosmopolitan American society, unity and social cohesion, asserting
the diversity of American culture as distinctiveness can generate that national
consensus required. Europe has other historical coordinates. European countries are
mostly formed on the principle of nationality, in this case, the specific culture
belonging to the nation. By assuming stereotypically the concept of multiculturalism,
on the purpose of being applied within national states, non-specific ideology can lead
231
to segregation, encouraging the segmentation of national unity into ethnic and
linguistic groups, which is the same thing with crushing state cohesion and
endangering social harmony. Interculturalism adduces for principles, the cohesion of
cultures and the positive interactions between them. Educating the students in the
spirit of tolerance and acceptance of cultural diversity through intercultural
education curricula in schools has for objective the moral formation of people of the
future so that racial prejudice and discrimination, which are real aggression
generators, to be tackled.
TRIPE, Oana Otilia, THE LIBRARY – A STARTING POINT TO
MODERNITY
Nowadays, any activity is based on the transmission and use of information,
especially on teaching. The information stored in libraries may address to the general
audience or specialized audience and the transmission channels have diversified so
much that the quality of information is difficult to control. They can be transmitted
orally or in writing, by picture, contained in a work of art, a literary text or a
billboard. The library is where all this cultural and computer richness unifies both on
paper and electronically, but moreover, in this space information is processed,
organized and stored, to be later retrieved easily and rigorously.
VĂDUVA, Carmen-Gabriela, THE VIRTUAL LIBRARY – MEANS OF
TRAINING SCHOOL AUDIENCE
Negli ultimi decenni, l’istruzione degli utenti è stata distinta come una nuova
zona di ricerca intensiva e, inoltre come una zona di nuove responsabilità per le
biblioteche e per gli specialisti nell’ambito dell’informazione. Tutta la comunità di
utenti delle strutture di documentazione informatica affronta una quantità di
informazioni che è in continuo aumento e, tutta questa quantità di informazioni è
trasmessa ed è disponibile su vari supporti: in modo cartaceo, su CD-ROM, online
ecc. Questi aspetti, spesso mettono in difficoltà gli utenti nel momento in cui essi
ricercano tali informazioni.
232
Per questo motivo, le strutture di documentazione informatica devono
attualmente prestare un’attenzione più grande all’istruzione degli utenti, più
precisamente all’istruzione degli utenti per la cultura dell’informazione. La
letteratura del settore ha concesso ultimamente degli spazi più ampi alla
presentazione dei più recenti approcci per questo argomento. Inoltre, sono stati
realizzati più strumenti che offrono la possibilità di apprendere circa le fonti di
informazione rilevanti e su le modalità di accedere a tali fonti. I termini sempre più
diffusi nei documenti di specialità sono: comportamento degli utenti, i bisogni degli
utenti, i programmi di istruzione, la cultura dell’informazione, la cultura
dell’informazione digitale, la cultura delle ricette, le pratiche informative, le abilità
di informazione etc.
VESEL, Adrian-Valentin, APPROACH OPPORTUNITIES TO
INTERCULTURALITY IN THE ACTIVITIES OF SCHOOL LIBRARIES
The opportunities enjoyed by most of the libraries of pre-university education:
trained specialized personnel, proper reading spaces, book volumes, free textbooks,
electronic equipment etc. form into appropriate prerequisites for continuous
modernization of school activities, including the intercultural education support of users.
Understood as a novel pedagogical proposal for the Romanian space, the intercultural
approach in education is able to teach students to live together, spiritually enriching and
developing each other in terms of the differences that mark them: language, religion,
ethnicity, genetic endowment etc..
In our paper, we propose some solutions consisting, in particular, in projects that
school libraries may develop, in the direction of the application of intercultural education
principles.
VIEZUINĂ, Paula-Alina, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY. INTERACTIVE METHODS
The Romanian educational system has experienced numerous changes in
recent years, changes that imply a radical reappraisal of the role of professor in
general, of the history teacher especially, inside of a classroom and a rearrangement
233
of the teacher-student relationships, the teacher becoming more of a moderator who
motivates and stimulates the students. To achieve this, in history classes one can use
interactive methods of teaching, based on the collaboration between students. This
helps the students to be able to harness the knowledge and skills acquired previously,
to reach an understanding of the historical facts and events independent of the
teacher, to form independently or in a group a view on the evolution of events and
phenomena, and to express it in a way, argued either orally or in writing, to develop
the ability to work in groups, to communicate, on the one hand inside the group, on
the other hand with the teacher. In the case of the theme approached, „Economics
and society in the 20th century”, one can use a variety of interactive methods. I
addressed just a few of them: Sinelg, Patchwork. Case study, Group project, Gallery
tour.
VLADU, Margareta, THE SCHOLAR LIBRARY / CDI – A SPECIAL PLACE
FOR READING AND CREATION
L’épreuve présente le Centre de documentation et d’information de Groupe
Scolaire Industriel Ėnergetique de Turceni/ la bibliothèque sa dotation, les catégories
d’utilisateurs, les moynes d’attraction de ceux-ci. Le C.D.I. de G..S.I.E.Turceni est
très important pour toutes les catégories d’utilisateurs( élèves, enseignants, membres
de la communanté locale), celui-ci étant un véritable appui dans le processus
instructif-éducatif, mais aussi dans le développement des activités extra
curriculaeres.
Dans cette épreuve, nous avons présenté aussi le rôle du bibliothécaire / du
documentariste dans l’ instruction des élèves, la modalité de travail de celui-ci, en
tenant compte des catégories d’utilisateurs mais également de la colaboration avec
les enseignants de notre institution qui contribuent à l’accomplissement de l’acte
instructif – éducatif.