Alina Resceanu

University of Craiova · Department of British American and German Studies

In recent years, Romania has started to develop a fully-fledged national internationalisation strategy targeting both internationalisation of education and of research (Deca and Fiț 2015). The strategy is aimed at encouraging and financially supporting higher-education institutions (HEIs) to offer joint degrees with universities from abroad and to...

To achieve the objectives in the Agenda 2030, the active participation of young people is crucial, as they will be the protagonists of the scenario that will emerge at the local and global levels. In order to support young people's active participation in these issues, it is necessary to understand what dimensions can influence their decision to st...

Young people’s skills and attitudes must be observed, studied and evaluated in order to create appropriate models that would serve an educational purpose. In this paper, we propose a decision-making model with the aim to detect certain attitudinal and behavioral patterns of actively engaged young people. The data used in this research resulted from...

Study programmes using English as a medium of instruction (EMI) are believed to improve the students' English proficiency and therefore result in a workforce that is more fluent in English (Galloway et al. 2017). Starting from this premise, the aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it brings into discussion aspects related to the foreign language...

At this phase of the ecolinguistic march into the mainstream of western language studies, we need to notice (i) the emerging, already coherent product, which is a newly born linguistic (meta) theory and practice; and, also (ii) the ongoing vibrant self-profiling process of the discipline. The present collective volume is a reflection of this emergi...

In the current educational scenario of training students for the 21st century, when teaching methodologies are rapidly changing to suit the more and more challenging demands, there is a stringent need to equip pupils, students, teachers, educators, and not only, with the adequate skills to succeed in their activities. Particularly teachers, teacher...

This comparative study has a two-fold aim. On the one hand, it provides a description of the national educational framework – legislative provisions, institutional strategies and policies – and the regional and local practices regarding the presence of Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC) competences in the educational process. On the other h...

Cititorul are în faţa sa o carte fascinantă. Originalitatea pregnantă a volumului Arbor Scientiae constă în caracterul său inter-şi transdisciplinar. Cartea ne oferă un dialog între religie, literatură, folclor şi artă, între cuvânt şi imagine. Ea ne incită să gândim prin noi înşine, să ne chestionăm şi să imaginăm soluţii pentru tulburata epocă în...

This research study is focused on getting insights into the development of writing skills at the primary level during foreign language (FL) classes in six countries involved in this joint research organised within the Educational Role of Language (ERL) network, namely Greece, Lithuania, Iceland, Poland, Romania, and Serbia. The overall aim is to fi...

This study has investigated the development of writing skills among 9-year-old pupils during English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes in six European countries, namely Romania, Greece, Serbia, Poland, Lithuania and Iceland. Specifically, it examines the correlation between theory (what EFL teachers should do) and practice (what they actually do)...

This article started from the idea that in the new context of joint societies and global communication, there is an increasing interest in what role language plays in the acquisition and transmission of sociocultural knowledge. Both linguists and educators have acknowledged that fundamentally language acquisition is embedded in socialisation and th...

This volume of thematic studies offers multifaceted interpretations of education for sustainable and solidary development (ESSD). It is a joint work of academics, teachers and researchers covering the domain of education from the perspective of economy, social sciences, language studies, communication and pedagogy. The authors propose a range of re...