The domain of the social work occupations is a quite recent one for Romania and this fact leads t... more The domain of the social work occupations is a quite recent one for Romania and this fact leads to a series of difficulties in correlating and harmonizing the university professional education with the labour market. In the context of the European integration, and the globalization of certain regulative social processes, a viable solution to diminish the dysfunctions generated by this non-correlation is the occupational standardization and the curricular homogenization. And so, it appears a series of questions, like: What is the social worker in Romania? Who trains the social workers? Focus more on theoretical knowledge or practical skills? Does the labour market of social work prise the university education? The present study is a departure point in this direction. The present study is elaborated on two parts: first, it analyses the current situation of the professional education of the social work, while taking as a departure point its main output the higher education graduate-and his level of training for the tasks/duties specific to the connected occupations in comparison with labour market expectations. The theoretical supposition (the background of the present research) is that of the correspondence between the higher education training system and the labour market requests-a fact that is always present in all the official documents. The analyses to confirm it usually focuses on the legislation, the role of the National College of the Social Workers as a professional association that regulates the specific occupations' aspects; but also on two applied researches. The main objectives are approached in the most consistent part that regards the university curricula analyses. On study's second part that of the practical studies there are presented the conclusions of two large studies of national level developed during 2010.
For the preoccupations of the theoretical and practice community development, Social Economy is t... more For the preoccupations of the theoretical and practice community development, Social Economy is the domain that holds the most of attention, especially after the formulation and the general objectives of Europe Agenda 2020. Furthermore, in most of the European Union countries there is a diverse and socio-professional impact network that is specific to the socio economy structures. Yet, even if there are some preoccupations in this direction, it has not reached a consensus in regard with the ideological sources of these particular types of organizations. Social enterprises / societies that are the most outspreaded social economy instruments, like corporate associations, are the best known structures of social economy, as well as other instruments specific to the domain, and have a high and outspread rate of appreciation within the society, but without clearly pointing out their theoretical foundation of their presence. We suggest the approach of this aspect from the perspective of a ...
Together with Romania’s membership in EU came an on fashion group of concepts – social economy, c... more Together with Romania’s membership in EU came an on fashion group of concepts – social economy, cohesion, sustainable/enduring development, isolated community etc. – we seemed eager to put to work, except many of them were hardly familiar to us, neither to the scientific level nor to the empiric one. And so, my approach is both a clarifying attempt, an endeavour to adjust some of these concepts to our reality, and an exercise of putting them into practice. The key concept the entire article revolves is that of isolated community, presented in regard with the principle of sustainable development – a direction on hand to fallow due to its ethic generosity but as well because of the large European funds intended to support social and economic cohesion, solidarity, inclusion and community’s specific identity.
The domain of the social work occupations is a quite recent one for Romania and this fact leads t... more The domain of the social work occupations is a quite recent one for Romania and this fact leads to a series of difficulties in correlating and harmonizing the university professional education with the labour market. In the context of the European integration, and the globalization of certain regulative social processes, a viable solution to diminish the dysfunctions generated by this non-correlation is the occupational standardization and the curricular homogenization. And so, it appears a series of questions, like: What is the social worker in Romania? Who trains the social workers? Focus more on theoretical knowledge or practical skills? Does the labour market of social work prise the university education? The present study is a departure point in this direction. The present study is elaborated on two parts: first, it analyses the current situation of the professional education of the social work, while taking as a departure point its main out-put - the higher education graduate ...
The domain of the social work occupations is a quite recent one for Romania and this fact leads t... more The domain of the social work occupations is a quite recent one for Romania and this fact leads to a series of difficulties in correlating and harmonizing the university professional education with the labour market. In the context of the European integration, and the globalization of certain regulative social processes, a viable solution to diminish the dysfunctions generated by this non-correlation is the occupational standardization and the curricular homogenization. And so, it appears a series of questions, like: What is the social worker in Romania? Who trains the social workers? Focus more on theoretical knowledge or practical skills? Does the labour market of social work prise the university education? The present study is a departure point in this direction. The present study is elaborated on two parts: first, it analyses the current situation of the professional education of the social work, while taking as a departure point its main output the higher education graduate-and his level of training for the tasks/duties specific to the connected occupations in comparison with labour market expectations. The theoretical supposition (the background of the present research) is that of the correspondence between the higher education training system and the labour market requests-a fact that is always present in all the official documents. The analyses to confirm it usually focuses on the legislation, the role of the National College of the Social Workers as a professional association that regulates the specific occupations' aspects; but also on two applied researches. The main objectives are approached in the most consistent part that regards the university curricula analyses. On study's second part that of the practical studies there are presented the conclusions of two large studies of national level developed during 2010.
For the preoccupations of the theoretical and practice community development, Social Economy is t... more For the preoccupations of the theoretical and practice community development, Social Economy is the domain that holds the most of attention, especially after the formulation and the general objectives of Europe Agenda 2020. Furthermore, in most of the European Union countries there is a diverse and socio-professional impact network that is specific to the socio economy structures. Yet, even if there are some preoccupations in this direction, it has not reached a consensus in regard with the ideological sources of these particular types of organizations. Social enterprises / societies that are the most outspreaded social economy instruments, like corporate associations, are the best known structures of social economy, as well as other instruments specific to the domain, and have a high and outspread rate of appreciation within the society, but without clearly pointing out their theoretical foundation of their presence. We suggest the approach of this aspect from the perspective of a ...
Together with Romania’s membership in EU came an on fashion group of concepts – social economy, c... more Together with Romania’s membership in EU came an on fashion group of concepts – social economy, cohesion, sustainable/enduring development, isolated community etc. – we seemed eager to put to work, except many of them were hardly familiar to us, neither to the scientific level nor to the empiric one. And so, my approach is both a clarifying attempt, an endeavour to adjust some of these concepts to our reality, and an exercise of putting them into practice. The key concept the entire article revolves is that of isolated community, presented in regard with the principle of sustainable development – a direction on hand to fallow due to its ethic generosity but as well because of the large European funds intended to support social and economic cohesion, solidarity, inclusion and community’s specific identity.
The domain of the social work occupations is a quite recent one for Romania and this fact leads t... more The domain of the social work occupations is a quite recent one for Romania and this fact leads to a series of difficulties in correlating and harmonizing the university professional education with the labour market. In the context of the European integration, and the globalization of certain regulative social processes, a viable solution to diminish the dysfunctions generated by this non-correlation is the occupational standardization and the curricular homogenization. And so, it appears a series of questions, like: What is the social worker in Romania? Who trains the social workers? Focus more on theoretical knowledge or practical skills? Does the labour market of social work prise the university education? The present study is a departure point in this direction. The present study is elaborated on two parts: first, it analyses the current situation of the professional education of the social work, while taking as a departure point its main out-put - the higher education graduate ...
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