@article {460,
	title = {THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER IN IMPROVING PUPIL{\textquoteright}S ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH A SYNERGISTIC PARENT-PUPIL-TEACHER CONTEXTUAL COMMUNICATION},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century},
	volume = {25},
	year = {2010},
	month = {November/2010},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {122-137},
	abstract = {Pupil{\textquoteright}s level of achievement is enhanced by bridging the gap between learning spaces and facilitating the transfer of knowledge, behaviours, skills, values, preferences and understandings from one context to another. An important part in this process is the exchange of information between home and school through an improved parent-pupil-teacher communication assisted by the school{\textquoteright}s social worker. The research focus of this paper is to identify the challenges pupils face in relation to their learning spaces and to establish the role of the school social worker in improving pupil{\textquoteright}s achievement through a contextual communication model of maintaining the collaboration between family, school and community. The research methodology included (1) a questionnaire applied to 110 pupils from one Romanian high-school with ages between 12-15 years; (2) semi-structured interviews with social workers, school teachers, a school psychologist, educational experts and parents and (3) synthesis and comparisons of the psychological and didactical relations between pupils and the context studied. Using the results of the survey and the interviews, this research identified the areas of discrepancy between pupils and their learning spaces, and mapped the role of the social worker in improving pupils{\textquoteright} level of achievement and school adaptation. This mediator role is exemplified through an innovative synergistic model of parent-pupil-teacher contextual communication. },
	keywords = {contextual communication model, learning spaces, school achievement, school social work},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	url = {http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/abstract.php?icid=924388},
	author = {Salomea A.  Popoviciu and Ioan  Popoviciu and Ioan  G. Pop and Daria  Sass}
}
@article {361,
	title = {SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES IN MECHATRONICAL EDUCATION AS VOCATIONAL TRAINING ENVIRONMENT},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century },
	volume = {19},
	year = {2010},
	month = {March/2010},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {94-102},
	abstract = {Education and training with specific procedures and techniques are crucial in continuously economic and social changes. The vocational educational training systems (VETS) together with industry are confronted with the need to develop theoretical sequences integrated with practical learning sequences, as well, all participants being determined to acquire key competences and update their skills as a continuous process throughout their lives. These objectives can be achieved only by sustainable long term effort raising skill levels with lifelong learning and knowledge triangle, education, research and innovation strategies. The VETS have to contribute efficiently and equitable to the modernization of education at all levels. Lifelong learning is imposed as a necessity in the new emergent knowledge based economy, supporting creativity as a contextual innovative process enabling full economical and social participation, teachers and trainers been challenged by a lot of problems. Technology education holds the potential for teaching all the people involved in the VETS as lifelong learning apprentices to get ability in problem solving, being considered as only logical system based on a new, synergistic education. The new profession, mechatronician, as a technology education job profile, has to be made more attractive, only the quality of teacher education being able to influence the performance of the apprentices.},
	keywords = {knowledge triangle, lifelong learning, synergistic signification, vocational educational training systems},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1399917568.pdf},
	author = {Ioan  G. Pop and Vistrian Maties}
}
@article {400,
	title = {TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH ON KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN FAMILY AS COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century },
	volume = {21},
	year = {2010},
	month = {June/2010},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {141-152},
	abstract = {This paper presents a new perspective on family as a possible community of practice using a transdisciplinary approach and the search window methodology with top-down and bottom up levels of knowledge. In a family as community of practice communication is facilitated by a flexible accessible structure (mutual engagement) between parents to children (top-down perspective) and children to parents (bottom-up perspective). In this mutual inform-action process parents through the mechanism of authority and collaborative relationships encourage learning as a central aspect of children{\textquoteright}s identity shaped by family participation. The children, through the mechanism of apprenticeship learn through sharing information and experiences. This process of mutual engagement leads to a shared understanding (joint enterprise) and new resources (shared repertoire) which are the building blocks of a community of practice. },
	keywords = {community of practice, mutual engagement, shared repertoire},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1400136084.pdf},
	author = {Ioan  G. Pop and Salomea A.  Popoviciu and Ioan  Popoviciu}
}
@article {252,
	title = {CREATIVITY AS A REFLEXIVE TRANSDISCIPLINARY LANGUAGE IN THE MECHATRONICAL KNOWLEDGE},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century },
	volume = {13},
	year = {2009},
	month = {June/2009},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {94-102},
	abstract = {Starting from the transdisciplinary approach of knowledge is proposed a new transdisciplinary creative reflexive language in a way that can lead to knowledge, enabling the teaching of science and technology to disciples (students, apprentices, pupils, adults) from a large variety of backgrounds, motivating them for research, planning, design and creation of technological projects. Creative thinking is working within and through the design process of projects, changing the teaching methods and creating a rich and flexible learning environment, adopting new assessment methods, combining practical and theoretical knowledge, synthesizing vertical and lateral thinking. Students are preparing themselves the design process, structuring the programs to control the projects, learning environment that emphasizes planning, building activities and team projects, creating challenges, curiosity, imagination, and success in studying technological subjects, to become good mechatronicians. },
	keywords = {design-process, transdisciplinarity},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1393667290.pdf},
	author = {Ioan  G. Pop}
}
@article {161,
	title = {A TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH OF THE MECHATRONICAL EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE KNOWLEDGE BASED SOCIETY},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century },
	volume = {8},
	year = {2008},
	month = {October/2008},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {90-96},
	abstract = {The paper presents the new perspective of the transdisciplinary approach in the mechatronical knowledge as a synergistic-significant teaching/learning integrative process in the knowledge based society, using the search window methodology with top-down and bottom-up levels of knowledge. At the same time, starting from the transdisciplinary learning paradigm, were introduced the extrinsic active and intrinsic reactive syntagms to modeling the new paradigms of the transdisciplinary mechatronical education. Research gives a new perspective on that the mechatronics has to be considered, an educational paradigm, a reflexive way of communication (the creative logic of the included third) and a socio-interactive system of thought, living and action, as well.},
	keywords = {integrative knowledge, teaching/learning process, transdisciplinarity},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1392284546.pdf},
	author = {Ioan  G. Pop and Vistrian Maties}
}
