COMMUNICATION IN THE EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT
Communication represents the movement of
a quantity of information from one element to
another within the same system or from one
system to another, without considering the
nature and the concrete way in which this
movement is carried out.
Communication is a fundamental way of
psychosocial interaction. From this point of view,
it is the relationship through which interlocutors
can understand and influence each other through
the continuous exchange of various, coded
information.
HOSTILITY TOWARDS MIGRANTS: THE RESULT OF POOR COMMUNICATION OR JUST A CRUEL REALITY?
Abstract
Hostility towards migrants exists among the people
from transit and host countries stimulated by far right
politicians, mass-media and criminal activities produced
by some of the migrants. Terrorists and extremists hide
among honest migrants. The negative effects of migration
significantly influence the people’s attitudes. In order to
attract higher audience and financial benefits, some media
editors and owners together with a number of journalists
disobey the journalistic deontological code by supporting
either migration or anti-immigration parties. Building
fences and walls on the borders of some countries does not
significantly reduce the flow of migrants.
Keywords: migration, anti-immigration, terrorist migrants,
migration controversies, migration effects.
THE CENSORSHIP AVATARS IN POST-WAR ROMANIA AND THEIR IMPACT ON COMMUNICATION
ABSTRACT
Censorship, as a means of social control, emerged as
soon as human communities began to accumulate
information essential to the cohabitation of the group and
its future. One way or another, censorship has accompanied
the history of the world in all its important stages. In
primitive tribes, the magus or wizard was the only
possessor of certain secret knowledge inaccessible to
ordinary members. Even in the Greek antiquity, in a society
that invented democracy and promoted the fundamental
rights of citizens, the state intervened whenever a person,
an idea, a movement, or a flow of opinions came to
endanger the safety of the state as a whole, the legal system
or public opinion. Immediately after the end of the Second
World War, the whole of Europe was to be caught up in a
real frenzy of censorship, as Europe came out divided. In
Romania, with the establishment of the pro-Soviet regime,
and under the leadership and direct control on behalf of
the Russian commissioners especially sent in, a terrible
terror on the books began. The democracy dominated by
the historical Romanian parties were not compatible with
the communist ideology to be implemented in all spiritual
structures. Furthermore, Bessarabia and Bucovina had
been abducted and consequently all the writings related to
the life of these provinces had to be removed or revised.
Lists of libraries in the country that had the right to hold
fund D (“documentary”, accessible only to specialists, but
with approval) and S (“special”, almost inaccessible) were
compiled. Scientific papers suffered the same treatment.
Scientific and technical publications were removed from
these funds and made available to the public only in 1964.
Communication ensures people’s cooperation, their
solidarity, and helps our species progress for a better, safer
life, in which the freedom of access to different sources of
information should be provided.
Keywords: censorship, communication, Communist Romania,
secret book funds, second World War.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING THEORY ON THE MISCONCEPTIONS OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS: A FIELD STUDY IN MALAYSIA
Abstract
The number of HIV/AIDS cases is increasing among
youth in Malaysia due to the low awareness and knowledge,
which has led to the development of misconceptions, fear
and stigma of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). By
employing Experiential Learning Theory (ELT), this study
examines the interaction effect among non-PLWHA, before
and after HIV/AIDS campaign to understand PLWHA, the
development of knowledge, behavioural changes, and
acceptance in terms of fighting fear and stigmatization.
ELT translates the experience of the participant’s before
and after, which is translated through reflection on the
concept and new experience gained. Through a field
research, 20 selected students from Universiti Sains
Malaysia were brought to the Community AIDS Services
Penang (CASP) in order to gain first-hand experience of
the real-life situation of PLWHA. They were exposed to
PLWHA where their change of behaviour, experience
shared with PLWHA, and thoughts before and after the
visitation were studied. The findings were developed
based on two dialectically related modes of grasping
experience: (i) concrete experience and (ii) the abstract
conceptualization that the participants build before and
after exposure to PLWHA. The findings show that the
participants exhibited a change of behaviour, and a greater
acceptance towards PLWHA.
Keywords: Experiential Learning, HIV/AIDS,
Misconception, Stigma, Youth.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE – WHAT IS IT AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Abstract
The majority of authors who aim to advise readers on
how to develop their hidden valences start by asking them
to get in contact with their own emotions. Why is this so
important? Our emotions represent the factors that
significantly influence the way in which we react, make
decisions, relate to our own system of values and, last but
not least, communicate with others. Therefore, if we
manage to control our emotions, we can keep things under
control regardless of the context. Until recently emotions
were considered something which you had to get rid of if
you wanted to avoid any inconvenience. Today it is known
that emotions can be educated and the advantages gained
fallowing this process are enormous. Emotional intelligence
redefines the image of the human and of the world. Today
we know that emotions are the most important human
resources and that the way in which the human brain is
built allows the individual to love first.
Keywords: emotion, emotional intelligence, emotional
maturity.
JOURNALISM TODAY: BETWEEN INFORMING AND PROMOTING ACTIVITY
Abstract
The journalistic activity in recent years is often subject
to a wave of criticism, often coming from the the specialists
themselves, but also from analysts in various fields,
politicians, active members of civil society, etc. They
question the fairness of exercising journalism nowadays,
considering the fact that ethical standards of this profession
are often ignored, criticized or violated knowingly, which
represents a necessary analysis of the situation in the field.
It appears as a deviation from the profound journalistic
work and its supreme misson - informing all the citizens
about promotion, advertising, lobbying and others that
contradict the principles of ethics in the media. In this
regard the theorists and researchers in the field show an
attitude of concern for the perspectives of development in
this field in the coming years.
Keywords: promoting, lobbying, advertising, law,
imagemaking, political culture, journalistic ethics, new media.
THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF INTELLECTUAL CREATION – IMMEDIATE CONDITION OF TRANSITION TO THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
Abstract
The practical application of the results of intellectual
activity is the driving force of economic and social
development. Their intangible nature created serious
difficulties in extending them to the principles of private
property inherent in the market economy. In order to
overcome them, throughout the nineteenth century, with
the expansion of the role of knowledge and information, a
number of laws on the legal protection of the most
important intellectual creations (inventions, trademarks,
literary works, etc.) most European countries. Over time,
intellectual creatives become extremely valuable
patrimonial objects, important sources of competitive
advantages and additional profits, objects of commercial
exchanges, and in the twentieth century an important
subject of corporate management too.
Keywords: intellectual property, intellectual product,
objects portfolio of intellectual property, management of
intellectual property.
AESTHETICS IN NOLLYWOOD VIDEO FILMS
Abstract
Nollywood filmmakers most often strive to evoke
particular feelings in their audience –they try as much as
it is possible to create prevailing effects on the minds of
viewers’, using widely shared conventions. This article
reflects on the use of images, light and sound to create
beauty and believability in Nollywood video films, using
a semiotic approach to analyse select movies. The article
suggests that certain aesthetic elements are used in sharing
meaning in Nollywood movie productions. Such elements
include but are not limited to signs, codes and conventions,
and particular camera, lighting, sound and editing
techniques, as well as some other specialized vocabulary
of movie productions.
Keywords: Aesthetics, Nollywood, Video films, Semiotics,
Conventions.
THE ROLE OF DOCTOR-PATIENT COMMUNICATION IN PREVENTING MALPRACTICE COMPLAINTS
Abstract
An efficient doctor-patient communication represents
a clinical obligation for any physician, an essential part of
the therapeutic act, with the purpose of contributing to
establish a doctor-patient relationship based on trust,
generating benefits for the physical and mental health state
of the patient. Malpractice complaints are a real burden for
the health system, with negative consequences on the
doctors, patients and the whole society. Thus, all the health
systems in the world are constantly concerned with
identifying new methods of preventing and diminishing
the risk of malpractice complaints. The research in this
field showed the importance of establishing an efficient
doctor-patient communication because of its positive
influence on the therapeutic act and also because of its
potential to decrease the risk of malpractice complaints.
An efficient doctor-patient communication is favoured
mainly by the degree of education – both of the doctor and
of the patient.
Keywords: communication, malpractice, risk, physician,
patient, education.
BONA FIDES PRAESUMITUR – IN THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ACQUISITION PRESCRIPTION
Abstract
The distinction between honesty (honestum) and good
faith (bona fides) finds in the matter of usucapion a special
significance that leads to the acquisition of the property
right or its dismantling. The analysis of the concept takes
place on the basis of the contemporary legislation of
Romania and the Republic of Moldova, but it takes the
vision and the experience of the French and Canadian
authors, all in the context of access to the legal systems of
France and Canada. The essence of those presented we find
it at Philippe Malaurie (MALAURIE, 1997), who said that
“possession (...) occupies a place comparable to that of state
ownership in the matter of filiation: the law tends to face
when the latter is significant.”
Keywords: good faith, possession, proprietary right,
presumption, usucapion.
SOLOMON MARCUS FROM ONE TO SEVEN
Abstract
Solomon Marcus is the author of a multitude of valuable
publications of which one can distinguish the seven
volumes of which the “Open wounds” series is formed. The
title owes its dramatic nature to the fact that the author
approaches significant topics for the contemporary society,
revealing painful aspects from the various areas of the
Romanian social, cultural and political life. The series has
an autobiographic character revealing the author’s
reactions to restrictions, offences and absurd inequities
lived by Solomon Marcus as a young Jewish ethnic during
Antonescu’s legionary period, as well as later on, explaining
the condition of the genuine intellectual in those times
better than anyone else. Furthermore, the profound nature
of Solomon Marcus’ work “Open wounds” partly resides in
the description of events from a spiritual rather than
strictly historical perspective. Marcus’ criticism of
Romania’s social and cultural development in the last
decades is subtle and fine, but profound, accompanied by
pertinent argumentations. A great pedagogue, Marcus
offers a path for Romanian society to go on in order to find
balance and progress, also highlighting the necessity of
replacing the wrong binary logic used in education (to
memorize and reproduce) with “to understand” and then
“to know”. On the whole, the seven volumes help us
decipher a complex and complexed society, in a continuous
aberrant torment, in search of its own destiny. If someone
ever dared to write a history of the mentalities of the
Romanian society over the past five decades, they would
have to cite “Open wounds”.
Keywords: autobiography, criticism, education, politics,
Romanian society.