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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XIV, no. 4/2016, pp. 45-56.

Cooperarea în educația incluzivă: perspective comparative între sistemul românesc și cel francez

Cooperation in Inclusive Education: Comparative Perspectives between the Romanian and the French System

Mihaela Grasu

Laboratorul de Psihologie Socială și Studii Interdisciplinare, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Bd. Carol I nr. 11, Iași, România.

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1. Mihaela Grasu. Cooperarea în educația incluzivă: perspective comparative între sistemul românesc și cel francez. Sociologie Românească XIV(4):45-56, 2016. BibTeX

   @article{,
   	author = "Grasu, Mihaela",
   	title = "Cooperarea în educația incluzivă: perspective comparative între sistemul românesc și cel francez",
   	journal = "Sociologie Românească",
   	volume = "XIV",
   	number = 4,
   	pages = "45-56",
   	abstract = "Inclusive education means access to education for all children, regardless of their characteristics, while respecting the right of children to follow the school most appropriate to their needs. To achieve this goal, effective cooperation between all educational actors is needed. The main aim of the present article is to analyze how to work in a team, how inter institutional collaboration takes place, and how partnership with parents is conducted in inclusive education. By comparison we chose the French system, which has a long history of special education and Romanian, which inherited from the communist period an institutional system for the care of children with disabilities. This article is based on 82 individual semi-structured interviews with different categories of social actors involved in inclusive education. The main difficulties with teamwork are related to the devaluation of the work of new specialists recently introduced and to the lack of organization of the work of the specialists. Blocking information at the level of an institution is the main difficulty in interinstitutional communication. Resistance of parents to recognize children’s problems is one of the reasons why the partnership between specialists and parents does not work. The study has identified several strategies to improve the difficulties encountered: regular team meetings, partnership setting, clear objectives and rules between institutions, child service based on a contract with parents, and parent involvement in the evaluation and re-evaluation process of the child. The results of this study suggest that the process of school inclusion needs to be better supported.",
   	keywords = "special educational needs; interinstitutional collaboration; teamwork; partnership with parents",
   	year = 2016
   }
   

Abstract: Inclusive education means access to education for all children, regardless of their characteristics, while respecting the right of children to follow the school most appropriate to their needs. To achieve this goal, effective cooperation between all educational actors is needed. The main aim of the present article is to analyze how to work in a team, how inter institutional collaboration takes place, and how partnership with parents is conducted in inclusive education. By comparison we chose the French system, which has a long history of special education and Romanian, which inherited from the communist period an institutional system for the care of children with disabilities. This article is based on 82 individual semi-structured interviews with different categories of social actors involved in inclusive education. The main difficulties with teamwork are related to the devaluation of the work of new specialists recently introduced and to the lack of organization of the work of the specialists. Blocking information at the level of an institution is the main difficulty in interinstitutional communication. Resistance of parents to recognize children’s problems is one of the reasons why the partnership between specialists and parents does not work. The study has identified several strategies to improve the difficulties encountered: regular team meetings, partnership setting, clear objectives and rules between institutions, child service based on a contract with parents, and parent involvement in the evaluation and re-evaluation process of the child. The results of this study suggest that the process of school inclusion needs to be better supported.

Keywords: special educational needs; interinstitutional collaboration; teamwork; partnership with parents.

Cuvinte-cheie: cerințe educative speciale; colaborare interinstituțională; munca în echipă; parteneriatul cu părinții.

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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XIV, no. 4/2016, pp. 79-88.

Conversion, Personal Identity, Life History

Zsuzsanna Bögre

Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Egyetem u. 1, 2087, Hungary.

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   @article{,
   	author = "Zsuzsanna, Bögre",
   	title = "Conversion, Personal Identity, Life History",
   	journal = "Sociologie Românească",
   	volume = "XIV",
   	number = 4,
   	pages = "79-88",
   	abstract = "In this study, the life histories of two basic groups, Krishna monks and Krishna followers were examined. During the analysis, we discovered that the different situation of the two groups has essential influence on the process and development of conversion. We found that the definition of conversion proposed by Snow and Machalek may be considered an ideal type, as its properties are present in the exact form described by the authors primarily in the case of monks. In the case of those more loosely connected to the Hare Krishna Movement, only a “minimal programme” of the new mentality is present. In their case, the properties of conversion, i.e. drastic biographical reconstruction, adoption of the new pattern of thinking and thorough embracement of the convert role, were only partially attained. In what the fourth property – iconic language – is concerned, no relevant example was found in the scholarly literature about those loosely connected to the Movement. Thus, even the members of a new religious movement with such rigorous and fundamental theology as the ISKCON should not be treated as a homogeneous group.",
   	keywords = "Hare Krishna Movement; conversion; life history; levels of personality; personal identity",
   	year = 2016
   }
   

Abstract: In this study, the life histories of two basic groups, Krishna monks and Krishna followers were examined. During the analysis, we discovered that the different situation of the two groups has essential influence on the process and development of conversion. We found that the definition of conversion proposed by Snow and Machalek may be considered an ideal type, as its properties are present in the exact form described by the authors primarily in the case of monks. In the case of those more loosely connected to the Hare Krishna Movement, only a “minimal programme” of the new mentality is present. In their case, the properties of conversion, i.e. drastic biographical reconstruction, adoption of the new pattern of thinking and thorough embracement of the convert role, were only partially attained. In what the fourth property – iconic language – is concerned, no relevant example was found in the scholarly literature about those loosely connected to the Movement. Thus, even the members of a new religious movement with such rigorous and fundamental theology as the ISKCON should not be treated as a homogeneous group.

Keywords: Hare Krishna Movement; conversion; life history; levels of personality; personal identity.

Cuvinte-cheie: Mișcarea Hare Krishna; convertire; istoria vieții; niveluri ale personalității; identitate personală.

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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XIV, no. 4/2016, pp. 57-78.

The Healthy Food Basket for Romania. National Results of a Comparative Research Carried out within the European Reference Budgets Network (2014-2015)

Florina Pop, Cristina Rat 

Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, B-dul 21 Decembrie 1989 Nr. 128, Cluj-Napoca.

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   @article{,
   	author = "Pop, Florina and Raț, Cristina",
   	title = "The Healthy Food Basket for Romania. National Results of a Comparative Research Carried out within the European Reference Budgets Network (2014-2015)",
   	journal = "Sociologie Românească",
   	volume = "XIV",
   	number = 4,
   	pages = "57-78",
   	abstract = "The present paper aims to present and discuss the national results for Romania of the comparative research on healthy food baskets, carried out within the European Reference Budgets Network (2014-2015), a project financed by the European Commission at the initiative of the European Parliament. While food baskets have been for long computed in Romania, they have no longer served as policy tools since 2004. Acknowledging the crucial importance of modelling reference budgets for decisions over the minimum wage, social benefits and subsidies for public services, this study embraces a methodology designed by Goedeme, Storms and van den Bosch (2015), in order to construct an updated reference budget for nutritious food and sports activities in 2015 Romania. Among its main conclusions, our study reveals that the values of means-tested social assistance benefits fall far below the monetary value of the healthy food basket. Moreover, dual-earner families employed for the minimum wage and raising two children can hardly afford the daily costs of a balanced nutrition that also fulfils the social and cultural functions of food.",
   	keywords = "food baskets; reference budgets; minimum income policies; Romania",
   	year = 2016
   }
   

Abstract: The present paper aims to present and discuss the national results for Romania of the comparative research on healthy food baskets, carried out within the European Reference Budgets Network (2014-2015), a project financed by the European Commission at the initiative of the European Parliament. While food baskets have been for long computed in Romania, they have no longer served as policy tools since 2004. Acknowledging the crucial importance of modelling reference budgets for decisions over the minimum wage, social benefits and subsidies for public services, this study embraces a methodology designed by Goedeme, Storms and van den Bosch (2015), in order to construct an updated reference budget for nutritious food and sports activities in 2015 Romania. Among its main conclusions, our study reveals that the values of means-tested social assistance benefits fall far below the monetary value of the healthy food basket. Moreover, dual-earner families employed for the minimum wage and raising two children can hardly afford the daily costs of a balanced nutrition that also fulfils the social and cultural functions of food.

Keywords: food baskets; reference budgets; minimum income policies; Romania.

Cuvinte-cheie: coșul minim; bugete de referință; politici de garantare a venitului minim; România.

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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XIV, no. 4/2016, pp. 89-109.

The Red Sludge Took It All – Even Family Ties?

Anna Luxné Prehoda

Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Egyetem str. 1, Piliscsaba, 2087 Hungary.

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   @article{,
   	author = "Prehoda, Anna Luxné",
   	title = "The Red Sludge Took It All – Even Family Ties?",
   	journal = "Sociologie Românească",
   	volume = "XIV",
   	number = 4,
   	pages = "89-109",
   	abstract = "In this paper I would like to describe the function and changes of family ties after a traumatic experience. In my analysis I compared life story interviews, which have been recorded in two periods: one and a half month after the Hungarian red sludge disaster in 2010 and three years later. As I placed this case in Ulrich Beck’s theoretical framework, named ‘risk society’, I had three main questions about 1) the changing of family ties after the disaster, 2) family’s role in trauma procession and 3) individuals’ future prospects regarding family life. This paper points out that there are definite gender differences in the individuals’ family perception, and the importance of distinguishing the perceptions about immediate and distant family. Generally, no long-term changes caused by the disaster could be observed in the analysed type of family ties. I would like to point at the possibilities in family life and family ties, which can help the trauma recovery procession and which debase it. The most important result of this paper is the main role of the entire and operable family ties in coping with trauma.",
   	keywords = "coping with trauma; family ties; industrial disaster; red sludge disaster; risk society of immigration",
   	year = 2016
   }
   

Abstract: In this paper I would like to describe the function and changes of family ties after a traumatic experience. In my analysis I compared life story interviews, which have been recorded in two periods: one and a half month after the Hungarian red sludge disaster in 2010 and three years later. As I placed this case in Ulrich Beck’s theoretical framework, named ‘risk society’, I had three main questions about 1) the changing of family ties after the disaster, 2) family’s role in trauma procession and 3) individuals’ future prospects regarding family life. This paper points out that there are definite gender differences in the individuals’ family perception, and the importance of distinguishing the perceptions about immediate and distant family. Generally, no long-term changes caused by the disaster could be observed in the analysed type of family ties. I would like to point at the possibilities in family life and family ties, which can help the trauma recovery procession and which debase it. The most important result of this paper is the main role of the entire and operable family ties in coping with trauma.

Keywords: coping with trauma; family ties; industrial disaster; red sludge disaster; risk society of immigration.

Cuvinte-cheie: a face față traumei; legături familiale; dezastru industrial; revărsare toxică de ‘noroi roșu’; societatea riscului.