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Volume 4, Issue 1, 2017

15 open-access articles, published August 2017. Titles link directly to full-text PDFs.

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  1. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 6-29

    SHADOW EDUCATION: EVOLUTION, FLAWS AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERM

    • Muhammad Abid MALIK
    Keywords
    shadow education; private tutoring; definition; shadow teaching; historical development

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    MALIK, M. A. (2017). SHADOW EDUCATION: EVOLUTION, FLAWS AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERM. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 6-29. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-6-29.pdf

    Abstract. Shadow education stands for those activities which are designed to improve students’ academic learning in examinable subjects taught in a formal school. This paper looks at the historical development of the term, and how it has been defined differently by different researchers. The paper challenges different definitions and conceptualizations about shadow education and try to stimulate further inquiry about it. It points out some flaws in those definitions and why they need to be modified with the changing time and expanding boundaries of the field. Furthermore, it looks at different terms which are frequently used interchangeably for shadow education and their appropriateness. Using different elements of those definitions, the paper comes up with a definition and subcategories of shadow education which may reduce some of the confusions arising from existing definitions and parameters.

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  2. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 30-53

    THE ROLE OF INDIGENOUS HEALING PRACTICES IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AMONG THE MACCAA OROMO OF ILU ABBAA BORA AND JIMMA ZONES, ETHIOPIA

    • Milkessa Edae TUFA
    • Fesseha Mulu GEBREMARIAM
    Keywords
    Ecosystem; Environmental conservation; Folk healing; Indigenous medicines; Maccaa Oromo

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    TUFA, M. E., & GEBREMARIAM, F. M. (2017). THE ROLE OF INDIGENOUS HEALING PRACTICES IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AMONG THE MACCAA OROMO OF ILU ABBAA BORA AND JIMMA ZONES, ETHIOPIA. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 30-53. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-30-53.pdf

    Abstract. This article mainly attempted to explore the role of utilizing indigenous medicines in environmental protection among the Maccaa Oromo of Jimma and Iluu Abba bora zone, south-western Ethiopia. To this end, 4 separate interviews with 4 interviewees, 2 focus group discussions with 17 participants, and non-participant field observation were conducted to generate significant and reliable data. Besides, the researchers employed secondary data to make the study more significant and complete. The findings of the study show that since the source of medicines is the environment, the community protects their environment unless the society wouldn’t accessed the natural medicines they need. The study also reveals that most of these folk medicines used by the Maccaa Oromos are from plants. This further indicates the society protects the natural environment to get the plants they use for medication. Thus, folk healing practices are crucial on the one hand to treat illnesses, and to protect the ecosystem on the other hand. However, these societal knowledge is undermined as well as they are being replaced by western (scientific) knowledge, modern medicines. These days, our planet is suffering from global warming, wild fire, flooding, drought, and desertification. Averting these threats is impossible without protecting societal environmental indigenous knowledge.

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  3. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 54-60

    THE FEMALE STEREOTYPE IN THE MEDIA

    • Alexandra IORGULESCU
    • Mihaela MARCU
    Keywords
    femininity; stereotype; media

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    IORGULESCU, A., & MARCU, M. (2017). THE FEMALE STEREOTYPE IN THE MEDIA. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 54-60. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-54-60.pdf

    Abstract. We all recognize female stereotypes promoted in the media: la femme fatale, the sexy bomb, the supermom or the career woman. Regardless of where they stand, television, magazines, commercials abound with idealized images of women that represent physical perfection. In this complex network of influences and interferences, the media, whether they are a mirror of society (giving the public what they expect, want or demand), or a symbolic construction thereof, play a fundamental role in our preferences for a particular normative model of gender, influencing our opinions, decisions, criteria for evaluation and reporting to certain social situations or categories.

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  4. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 61-76

    REINTEGRATION OF MIGRANT STUDENTS IN THE DOLJ REGION

    • Janina-Elena VASCU
    • Mihaela Aurelia STEFAN
    Keywords
    re-migration; motivation; self-esteem; redefinition of family

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    VASCU, J.-E., & STEFAN, M. A. (2017). REINTEGRATION OF MIGRANT STUDENTS IN THE DOLJ REGION. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 61-76. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-61-76.pdf

    Abstract. Identified as a major problem, specific to the social and economical environment we live in, re-migration aims, mainly, at the readaptation of students to social and educational life. The study is centered on the situation of Dolj county children who suffered a failure, on one hand due to migration and on the other hand, due to a poor social and economical background. According to statistical data, in less than a school year, 200 students had received certificates for studies equalization. Out of these, 102 are girls and 98 boys, most of them re-migrating from countries like Spain (30) and Italy (134). The phenomenon of children’s re-migration and its consequences justify specific measures both from their families and the children’s social environment, and also from schools and social services. There is a need for an adequate information of parents who intend to return to their home country together with their children or they just send home their children alone. Important aspects concerning the direct intervention on children are the individual, family and community factors which imply the correction of any aggressive behaviour, the immediate solving of conflicts during classes, the stimulation of learning motivation, the development of self-esteem and resistance against disruptive factors, the protection of emotional attitude, the improvement of peer and student-teacher relationships, the encouragement of group integration, the redefinition of relationships inside the family.

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  5. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 77-87

    PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PERSUASIVE LANGUAGE IN EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATION

    • Aurel PERA
    Keywords
    persuasive language; educational communication; symbols persuasive; non-verbal symbols; semantic approach; the power of symbolic expression

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    PERA, A. (2017). PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PERSUASIVE LANGUAGE IN EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATION. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 77-87. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-77-87.pdf

    Abstract. It is known especially the role of language and symbols in educational communication. The problem that we put in this article is the psychological role of persuasive language in educational communication. The use of language is to persuade or "shock"? What is the power and efficient use of the word in communication? What is the role of language in the mental maps or persuasive communication? To what semantic extent approach facilitates differentiation sign language symbols? It is effective renunciation of emotional connotations of words in an educational communication or not? How persuades human symbolic behavior cognitive behavior and to what extent the use of language as a means of persuading people, guaranteeing "action" accordingly? What is the persuasive power of language, and persuasion discover what discursive and presentational methods to discover the means employed in creating a state identification? What analysis tools in order to detect the language used symbols persuasive verbal and non-verbal? What role persuasive language in shaping mental image of the world? What is the difference between persuasion and manipulation in educational communication?

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  6. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 88-97

    MOTIVATION - THE FACILITATOR FACTOR OF THE INCULTURATION PHENOMENON IN SCHOOL

    • Emil LAZAR
    Keywords
    motivation; inculturation; school; culture

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    LAZAR, E. (2017). MOTIVATION - THE FACILITATOR FACTOR OF THE INCULTURATION PHENOMENON IN SCHOOL. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 88-97. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-88-97.pdf

    Abstract. The present study proposes an analysis of motivation, in the context of its development within the fundamental institution that produces, manages and disseminates knowledge: namely, school. Within the (de facto) present context we wanted to reflect on the importance of the motivation in implementing the socio-cultural factors of the reference background (school), these playing an essential role in shaping and structuring the individual in terms of psycho-behavioral and with ideological value, resulting in the process of enculturation. In the circumscribed area of pedagogy, there is a conceptual approach, as a reflection of shades of the terms: acculturation, enculturation, inculturation, highlighting commonalities or differences as opposing to the approached situations, offering useful coordinates for thorough analysis of the interaction processes. A conclusion and also an objective, finally emerge by finding strategies, methods and pedagogical techniques, to reduce current problems, that lead to a higher demotivation, which are to be validated by the results obtained in schools, and they remain culturation factors insofar that the values they promote keep their high standards.

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  7. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 98-113

    PARTICULARITIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT IN THE SPECIFIC CULTURE OF THE ROMANIAN COMPANIES

    • Oprea-Valentin BUSU
    • Antonia-Ioana LUCHICI
    Keywords
    culture; organization; organizational culture

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    BUSU, O.-V., & LUCHICI, A.-I. (2017). PARTICULARITIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT IN THE SPECIFIC CULTURE OF THE ROMANIAN COMPANIES. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 98-113. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-98-113.pdf

    Abstract. Organizational culture and organizational commitment represent two of the most important concepts to be considered in an well-functioning organization, having a direct influence over employees` lives in that company. Organizational culture, a scientific concept appeared in the field literature at the end of 1980`, in an increasingly unstable business environment, could be defined as a defined series of collective attitudes, ideas, beliefs, symbols and meanings, values and ideologies, rules and norms, feelings or behaviors, as a model and structure of stable practices shared by all the members of that organization and which, by being implemented, come to merge with the structure of organization and its control systems, with the purpose of producing behavioral norms, this way keeping the unit of organization. In the same time, organizational commitment represents the feeling of membership, of belonging felt by the employee toward the company he/she works in, reflecting the degree to which those characteristics and organizational perspectives are internalized and adopted in his behavior by the subject. Commitment could be also seen as a model of thinking of an employee taking into consideration the level to which personal values and goals are congruent with those of the company. On the other hand, behavioral commitment refers to the process of one employee becoming committed or even stacked into the organization and the way he manage the situation. Our motivation for choosing the theme of this research lays on one hand in the desire to understand the construct of organizational culture and the organizational development, field which I`m interested in, and on the other hand because the lack of similar research regarding the Romanian companies. The research We have made revealed that there are many studies linking the two concepts with the organizational development in companies from other countries, but only two studies realized in our country, and neither of them for the private field of business (both being conceived for public institutions).

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  8. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 114-124

    PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA REPRESENTATION OF CHILDREN

    • Davian VLAD
    Keywords
    media; children; representation; ethics; guidelines

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    VLAD, D. (2017). PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA REPRESENTATION OF CHILDREN. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 114-124. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-114-124.pdf

    Abstract. The fundamental human rights must always be taken into consideration by the media, because one of the major duties of a journalist is to observe whether the rights of each and everyone are respected in the society. But the battle for rating sometimes leads to unfortunate compromises and the disregard of the ethical principles and even the laws. Such undesirable situations are to be noticed also when events involving children are covered by the media. Because of the pressures constantly made by the institutions and organizations with expertise and responsibilities in the field, such as UNICEF, things have improved significantly lately. But there are still issues to be solved and the good practice guidelines are still needed in order to correct the journalistic misconducts and avoid the occurrence of what is usually referred to as 'secondary trauma'.

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  9. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 125-135

    THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE SYNTHESIS REPORTS

    • Aurelia DUMITRU
    • Andrei Bogdan BUDICA
    • Adrian Florin BUDICA
    Keywords
    synthesis report; economic entity; qualitative information

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    DUMITRU, A., BUDICA, A. B., & BUDICA, A. F. (2017). THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE SYNTHESIS REPORTS. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 125-135. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-125-135.pdf

    Abstract. This study aims to highlight the main qualitative features of the information to be included in the synthesis accounting reports. The prerequisites of the paper are the fact that the synthesis financial reports are cardinal documents of all economic entities and the fact that the quality of the information retained in these reports depends on the competitiveness, efficiency and good activity of the economic entities. The conclusion to be reached is that the information contained in the synthesis reports must be opportunity, comparability, intelligibility, verifiability.

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  10. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 136-148

    CENSORSHIP AND MYSTIFICATION IN THE ROMANIAN DOCUMENTARY DURING THE COMMUNIST ERA

    • Ionut SUCIU
    Keywords
    documentary; film; censorship; mystification; Communism

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    SUCIU, I. (2017). CENSORSHIP AND MYSTIFICATION IN THE ROMANIAN DOCUMENTARY DURING THE COMMUNIST ERA. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 136-148. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-136-148.pdf

    Abstract. The purpose of this study is to analyse the impact that the communist regime in Romania had on documentaries and on the way film directors were influenced when doing a documentary. It is well known that before 1989 this genre was used mainly for the propaganda, but there were filmmakers who tried to overcome barriers imposed by the censors, using different subtle methods in order to freely express their ideas. Laurenţiu Damian and Copel Moscu were two of them, but their films did not pass the test of censorship and were either drastically modified, or banned, while they were relegated. The reasons were multiple, but were all connected to the way those films would directly or indirectly affect the image of the regime. However, there was also a different category of directors – those who had their homework done even before starting to shoot for a film. This category would sacrifice truth and authenticity in order to have a film that would look good in front of the censors and of the leaders of the regime. In any of those three cases, the result was similar, as the documentary loses its main role – to inform, to analyse, to challenge the viewer.

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  11. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 149-158

    THE PENTECOST IN ROMANIAN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

    • Bianca TEODORESCU
    Keywords
    feast; tradition; anthropology; Pentecost; traditional Romanian dancers; custom

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    TEODORESCU, B. (2017). THE PENTECOST IN ROMANIAN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 149-158. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-149-158.pdf

    Abstract. The article represents a research on the Pentecost, (Whitsuntide), in the Romanian contemporary society. The Christian holiday of Pentecost stands for the Christian festival celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples of Jesus after his Ascension, held on the seventh Sunday after Easter. We have resorted for this article to the meta-analytic research method, trying to study carefully the perception that people have on the Pentecost. Although the feast relies on religion, nowadays Romanian people feel more connected to the urban environment, where the rituals have a commercial role. This the reason why during the feasts, the Romanian society leads a continuous fight between what is new and what is old, intending to convince the city dwellers that the traditional elements must remain pure. Tradition is the one that makes the connection between the sacred and the profane. The traditional Romanian dancers have a special role and they turn into the actors that connect the fantastic world to the real world. By the ritual of the traditional Romanian dancers, people become familiar with their customs and are introduced into a state of liminality. Nowadays, Romanians consider the Pentecost to be a reunion of them with God and with all kinds of entities from the times when the traditional village represented the center of customs and traditions. The Christian holiday of Pentecost is also seen by the Romanian people as a reunion with their old self. It is important to know the way of getting familiar with and accepting the creation of a new universe, compatible with the Romanian traditions.

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  12. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 159-163

    FREEDOM AND DIGNITY: A BOOK REVIEW

    • Stefan VLADUtESCU
    Keywords
    freedom; dignity; theology; philosophy; law

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    VLADUtESCU, S. (2017). FREEDOM AND DIGNITY: A BOOK REVIEW. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 159-163. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-159-163.pdf

    Abstract. This review focuses on a synthesis book on human freedom and dignity. Contributors are reputed specialists in theology, philosophy and law. The issue is centered on freedom, dignity and the model created by the sacrifice of Martir Constantin Brancoveanu, but it has inductions and in related areas such as education, human value in theology, cultural policies. The research methodology that is largely used is inter-, multi- and transdisciplinary; the perspectives of the approach are varied: the perspective of the monotheistic tradition, the Lutheran perspective, the anthropological perspective, the philosophical perspective, the legal perspective, the epistemological perspective. The ideation of the studies finds convergence in the polyvalent and polyhedrical irradiations of the concepts of freedom and dignity. The book is remarkable by its high scientific and theological endowment and represents a significant cultural event.

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  13. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 164-173

    FREEDOM OF PRESS IN CURRENT SOCIO-POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT IN ROMANIA

    • Georgiana STANESCU
    • Ionut SUCIU
    Keywords
    freedom of expression; mass media; process; democracy; jurisprudence

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    STANESCU, G., & SUCIU, I. (2017). FREEDOM OF PRESS IN CURRENT SOCIO-POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT IN ROMANIA. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 164-173. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-164-173.pdf

    Abstract. This study analyses the way journalists’ freedom of expression is protected in current socio/political context. It has started from the fact that Mass Media is the guarantee of any modern democracy, and respect for freedom of expression is essential in the current European environment. We have shown that Romania guarantees through the Constitution, but also through other international treaties to which it is a signatory, the freedom of expression of every citizen, and, implicitly, the freedom of press. But in laws and treaties things seem simple, while in reality in the courts, the situation is completely different and, above all, extremely complicated. The study highlights the case of a journalist from Constanţa, who was sued by the former mayor of the city on the grounds that his image was damaged in a TV show on a local television station. Thus, the views of the Romanian institutions, on the one hand, and the one of the European Court of Human Rights on the other, were analyzed. The ECHR ruled for the journalist in the case against the former mayor of Constanţa (Ghiulfer vs. Romania), instead, two Romanian courts forced the journalist to pay moral damages and make him publicly apologize in a large circulation newspaper.

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  14. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 174-190

    COULD EMPLOYEES' MOTIVATION BE INCREASED BY A BETTER ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION? A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

    • Gabriela MOTOI
    Keywords
    organization; internal communication; needs; motivation; strategy

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    MOTOI, G. (2017). COULD EMPLOYEES' MOTIVATION BE INCREASED BY A BETTER ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION? A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 174-190. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-174-190.pdf

    Abstract. This article is presenting the results of a sociological research among employees of private organizations to see how internal communication works and how works the relationship between employee’s communication and motivation. Although the theoretical framework falls within a broad field, in the first part of the article we have chosen to present only those perspectives that refer to internal organizational communication and the way in which it influences employee motivation. For the research part of the article, we have presented the results of some questions from an applied opinion questionnaire, which may be useful for explaining the fundamental idea of this article, namely that in any organization, the development of employee motivation is very important as it contributes to the realization of a dynamic and efficient professional community, based on a common objective - achieving the goals of the organization.

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  15. Volume 4 · Issue 1 · 2017 · pp. 191-199

    JOURNALISM, BETWEEN AN AVANT-GARDE PROFESSION AND A PROFESSION IN CRISIS

    • Dan Valeriu VOINEA
    • Xenia NEGREA
    Keywords
    Journalism; education; information; crisis; avant-garde; acceptability

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    VOINEA, D. V., & NEGREA, X. (2017). JOURNALISM, BETWEEN AN AVANT-GARDE PROFESSION AND A PROFESSION IN CRISIS. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(1), 191-199. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-191-199.pdf

    Abstract. In this article we analyze the professional status of the journalist, in the context of more and more frequent problems. We have touched all the important moments in the history of the profession and faced two ideological ideologies: the avagard and the crisis. Our findings show that, despite so many changes in substance in journalistic logistics, the essence of journalism has remained the same, because journalism is not just a channel, an informational support, it is a science, a set of procedures to collect, process and distribute information. Journalism is at the forefront of knowledge, not in the ariergard. It informs, not educates. It captures all the technological changes and assimilates them, to become more powerful, more efficient.

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