Leyla Safta-Zecheria

West University of Timisoara · Department of Educational Sciences

Through a series of empirically and theoretically informed reflections, Opening Up the University offers insights into the process of setting up and running programs that cater to displaced students. Including contributions from educators, administrators, practitioners, and students, this expansive collected volume aims to inspire and question thos...

The historically high inequities in the education systems of Central and East-European countries have been further exacerbated in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using critical frame analysis, we compared the education policy debates in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Republic of Moldova during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic with a parti...

This paper is an analysis of a recent series of criminal complaints by the Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism and the Memory of the Romanian Exile regarding preventable deaths in residential institutions for children with disabilities. I contrast the investigations with ethnographic and interview data surrounding one of the...

Journal of Pedagogy (Revista de Pedagogie) is an open access biannual peer reviewed international publication issued by the National Centre for Policy and Evaluation in Education. Journal articles and book reviews are dedicated to topics from the field of education sciences: educational policy, philosophy of education, educational theory, curriculu...

The measures put in place to stop the spread of the Covid-19 have had a major impact on the organization of educational processes. School teachers have been faced with overnight digitalization of their activities without always receiving adequate support with this transition. The present paper reports on a participatory action research project in t...

Măsurile de distanţare socială impuse de pandemia COVID-19 au condus aproape peste noapte la digitalizarea activităţilor educaţionale din România şi din lume, iar această transformare a făcut mult mai vizibilă nevoia de dezvoltare a unor comportamente responsabile şi adecvate în mediul online şi ne-a făcut să ne punem întrebarea: „Ce competenţe de...

Journal of Pedagogy (Revista de Pedagogie) is an open access biannual peer reviewed international publication issued by the National Centre for Policy and Evaluation in Education. Journal articles and book reviews are dedicated to topics from the field of education sciences: educational policy, philosophy of education, educational theory, curriculu...

In this contribution, I discuss potential risk to the health of people with disabilities in residential care institutions during the COVID-19 outbreak by looking at evidence from Romania. As an academic who has studied deinstitutionalization of services for people with disabilities in Romania, I argue that residential care institutions for people w...

The present paper looks at the way in which political and scientific frameworks, as well as everyday life dynamics work to exclude people living with intellectual disability (ID) in Romania from political life and how these dynamics could be overcome through crafting communicative-dialogic pedagogical interventions geared at political inclusion. I...