Knowledge Based Society

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From Table of Contents:
◊ Education for society and the moral civic alphabetization of small pupils
◊ The teacher - a pathfinder. Interactive methods of stimulating productive thinking and creativity
◊ E-learning on the teacher's professional development. Elearning model under the experiential learning theory
◊ Transforming education through teacher leadership: evidence from the international teacher leadership project
◊ Children's identity and the quality of E.C.E.C. Services. An open contribution to debate and to policy formulations starting from the 'tuscan approach'
◊ The quality of teacher - the key of the reform in education
◊ Des competences professionnelles des futurs professeurs des ecoles
◊ L'evaluation des stages en formation d'enseignants: un frein a l'emancipation des futurs enseignants?
◊ The importance of the continuous training of teachers - models of training and professional development
◊ Institutions involved in the training and professional development of teachers during spiru haret's portfolios as minister
◊ Quelles competences pour quelles pedagogies? Limites et perspectives de la culture numerique dans la formation professionnelle des futurs enseignants
◊ Personal epistemology development from childhood to adulthood
◊ Acculturation and multicultural identities in international students: conceptual and methodological issues for guiding future research
◊ Education and the religious axiology
◊ Time management for students: between learning, auxiliary activities and distractions
◊ Problem solving strategies of teaching mathematics in primary school
◊ Drama education - the finnish (and nordic) perspective
◊ Theatre pedagogy
◊ Narrative approaches in preschool counselling
◊ Kindergarten teachers' perception on pre-service and inservice teacher training factors which influence the educational practicum

This book deals with the most important component of an educational reform - teachers professional development. It is construct to became a real debate about the quality issue involved by the teachers training dimension. It is a collection of over 15 articles - theoretical or empirical studies - elaborated under this very actual topic. The volume includes case studies, practical ongoing or ended works which are trying to reveal the essential elements of the theme - pre-service and in-service teacher education from the different european countries contextualised perspectives. There are presented useful experiences from european universities and educational institutions (Finland, France, Italy, Great Britain, Romania etc) under the goal of identifying a coherent theoretical background or a common professional development paradigm.
Starting from principles and values involved by teaching all over the world, the book is trying to make a great progress in underlying some strategic conclusions for the Teacher Education Politics.
This issue of Teachers Professional Development was considered to be very important for the editors and this volume it is the main product of a partnership signed between three important educational and research institutions: Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Gh.Zane Economic and Social Research Institute, which are the coordinators of a HR European Project for Postdoctoral research - POSDRU project no. 56815 - and the Psychology and Educational Sciences Department, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi.
The volume is a result of a strong collaboration between romanian and foreign researchers and university teachers and we hope that it will became a pleasant lecture and, in the same time a very useful one under the idea of Educational Politics Interventions.

Contributors:
Ionut Cehan; Mona-Lissa Chiriac; Ioana Cretu; Nicoleta Verginica Duta; Ruxandra Folostina; Aldo Fortunati; David Frost; Ovidiu Gavrilovici; Serban Iosifescu; Daniela Jeder; Costica Lupu; George Florian Macarie; Gianina Ana Masari; Dorin Nastas; Mihaela Gabriela Neacsu; Bogdan Constantin Neculau; Crenguta Lacramioara Oprea; Pierre Petignat; Constantin Petrovici; Bruno Roussel; Claudia Sapta; Irina Scutariu; Elena Seghedin; Ana Voichita Tebeanu; Tapio Toivanen.