EDUCATION AND VALUES IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES (29 June – 2 July, 2006)
Bucharest, RomaniaInternational Conference
EDUCATION AND VALUES IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES
29 June – 2 July, 2006
Bucharest, Romania
Organized by:
THE BALKAN SOCIETY FOR PEDAGOGY AND EDUCATION, THESSALONIKI
UNIVERSITY “SPIRU HARET”, BUCHAREST
INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES, BUCHAREST
CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, BUCHAREST
CALL FOR PAPERS
The connection between education and values is permanent and indestructible. Along the time, from an almost unlimited inventory of values, the education focused primarily on those values which take part in the configuration of some ideals, aims, interests of the time: from the integration into the environment to the autonomy of the individual, from the fidelity to the past to the critical thinking, from the discipline to the responsibility and free cooperation etc. Also, we can identify concrete values and abstract values, general values, universal values. The country and not the motherland, family and not the family feeling, these can be sometimes in conflict. Aristotle advises us to make the option for the truth, even if Plato is our friend. During the time, it may appear disruption and continuity, change and permanence. Our Balkan countries are going through an age of change, when education is re-shaped, re-modeled – based on new ideal and priorities, which re-organize some of the previous values and add new ones. In the same time, as Louis Lavelle emphasized, any value can be found in a feeling and it is validated by a judgment.
Our conference will question the universe of values in order to understand the subtle mechanism of idealization of the real values as well as the mechanism of the realization of ideal values, through which education brings nearer the existence to the ideal.
ORGANIZING BOARD
Prof.Dr. Viorel Nicolescu, President
Prof.Dr. Nikos Terzis, Honorary President
Dr. Athina Sipitanou
Prof.Dr.Carmen Furtuna
Dr. Ioana Herseni
Dr. Gheorghe Bunescu
Dr. Elisabeta Negreanu
TOPICS
The main Conference topics include, but are not limited to:
- Values and educational aims and objectives
- Values and social change
- Values in a European perspective
- Values and multiculturalism
- Values and ICT
LANGUAGE
English
For any additional information please contact Ioana Herseni e-mail: eduvalues2006@yahoo.comFax: + 40 21 322 11 62