Books by Florence Mihaela Singer
Planuri-cadru de învățămât pentru învățământul preuniversitar, 1999
Volumul, publicat în 1999 la Editura Corint, cuprinde planurile-cadru pentru diferitele forme de ... more Volumul, publicat în 1999 la Editura Corint, cuprinde planurile-cadru pentru diferitele forme de organizare a învățământului primar și gimnazial, precum și planurile-cadru pentru învățământul liceal, toate profilurile și specializările. Totodată, volumul cuprinde terminologia introdusă cu ocazia acestor noi planuri de învățământ, ce fac parte integrantă dintr-un curriculum național coerent, primul creat în perioada post-comunistă. Volumul include metodologia aplicării acestor planuri de învățământ; exemple de scheme orare cu argumente pentru opțiunea pentru un anumit tip de schemă orară în funcție de profesori, elevi, părinți, comunitatea locală; metodologia privind regimul disciplinelor opționale, exemple de discipline ce pot fi incluse în curriculum la decizia școlii și elaborate la nivel central și multe alte detalii ce pot fi de interes din perspectivă istorică dar și a implementării unor noi reforme în învățământul preuniversitar.
This international review offers current findings on the art and science of problem posing and it... more This international review offers current findings on the art and science of problem posing and its multiple contributions to mathematics teaching, learning, training, and curriculum
design. Diverse perspectives on problem posing frame the concept as a springboard for scientific inquiry and the process as a means to promote mathematical understanding across the primary and secondary grades. Problem posing is demonstrated as enhancing students' problem-solving skills, bolstering knowledge retention, and improving attitudes toward mathematics, and the book provides evidence-based strategies for its integration into both classroom work and teacher education. This information is particularly critical as
mathematics-based knowledge continues to dominate technology and the sciences.
Papers by Florence Mihaela Singer
Ghiduri metodologice pentru aplicarea programelor şcolare, 2001
Începând cu anul 1998-1999, în România a fost implementat primul curriculum național elaborat în ... more Începând cu anul 1998-1999, în România a fost implementat primul curriculum național elaborat în perioada post-comunistă. Lucrarea prezintă reperele conceptuale și metodologice care au ghidat aplicarea noului curriculum național la nivelul învățământului liceal, începând din anul școlar 2001-2002. Aceste repere au stat la baza organizării procesului instructiv-educativ pentru o perioadă relativ scurtă de timp, dar continuă să aibă reverberații și astăzi, deși mai degrabă la nivel teoretic.
Cuprins
1. Noul tip de liceu: o poartă deschisă spre societatea de mâine?
2. Structura organizatorică a liceului: este posibilă excelenţa în diversitate?
3. Ciclurile curriculare: o altă formă de organizare?
4. Planurile-cadru: o nouă filosofie a timpului şcolar?
5. Programa şcolară: reper obligatoriu pentru un demers flexibil?
6. Aplicarea programelor şcolare: o altă didactică?
7. Manualele alternative: o soluţie pentru diversificarea demersului didactic?
8. Curriculum la decizia şcolii: puterea şcolii?
RPSS, 2016
This article is focused on the issue of valuing the teaching profession in Romania as socioeconom... more This article is focused on the issue of valuing the teaching profession in Romania as socioeconomically relevant, which requires specialized career through the master of teaching degree. Such a program is generically described and two conditions necessary to ensure its quality are highlighted: on the one hand, a domain-specific training coupled with a thorough knowledge of domain-specific didactics and, on the other hand, a teaching practice and learning approaches oriented towards educational research.
Zdm – Mathematics Education, Dec 1, 2001
Dominating information by formation seems to be the only realistic solution to overcome the crisi... more Dominating information by formation seems to be the only realistic solution to overcome the crisis generated by the higher and higher accumulation of information in each domain. The paper is proposing a model of building structured knowledge able to generate in the child's mind strategies for efficient processing of information. Kurzreferat: Die Information durch Bildung zu beherrschen scheint die einzige realistische Lösung zu sein, die Krise zu überwinden, die durch Anhäufung von mehr und mehr Informationen enstanden ist. Das Referat präsentiert ein Bildungsmodell von strukturierten Kenntnissen, das im Gedächtnis des Kindes eine effiziente Bearbeitung von Information ermöglicht.
Teaching and Teacher Education, Aug 1, 2008
This study attempts to analyze and synthesize the knowledge collected in the area of conceptual m... more This study attempts to analyze and synthesize the knowledge collected in the area of conceptual models used in teaching and learning during inquiry-based projects, and to propose a new frame for organizing the classroom interactions within a constructivist approach. The IMSTRA model consists in three general phases: Immersion, Structuring, Applying, each with two sub-phases that highlight specific roles for the teacher and the students. Two case studies, one for mathematics in grade 9 and another for science in grade 3, show how the model can be implemented in school, making inquiry realistic in regular classes. Beyond its initial purpose, the IMSTRA model proved to be a powerful tool in curriculum development, being used in producing mathematics textbooks, as well as in developing teaching courses for a long-distance teachertraining program.
Applications and Modelling in Mathematics Education, Dec 6, 2007
Do we need models in explaining the outer world and the self? What types of models might be helpf... more Do we need models in explaining the outer world and the self? What types of models might be helpful in school to explain both complexity and abstraction? What level of representation is appropriate? What dimensions of training should be focused on in constructing inquiry-based learning? How could these dimensions be reflected in developing students’ competencies? Analysing the dual relationship between complexity and abstraction, the study proposes some strategies to enhance learning in a model-building environment.
RPSS, 2013
A brief overview emphasizes the low level of educational research in Romania, based on concrete d... more A brief overview emphasizes the low level of educational research in Romania, based on concrete data. The paper analyses the causes and the consequences of this situation, in both pre-university and university contexts. The study converges on the importance of building a professional development track in education that provides master and doctoral degrees in the teaching of a specified school subject, facilitating cutting-edge research in education.
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2010
The article highlights one of the methods of measuring cognitive interest of the secondary school... more The article highlights one of the methods of measuring cognitive interest of the secondary schoolchildren in learning Mathematics and the results of its practical application. As a result of questioning pupils, there have been differentiated the factors influencing the interest in learning Mathematics. They are: understanding the course material, the complexity of the course material, the duration of mastering the uniform course material, the amount of the course material. It has been found out that the interest tends to spread from a teacher to a student, or from a student who displays a genuine interest to other students.
ICME-13 monographs, 2018
The links between research in mathematics education, psychology of creativity and research in gif... more The links between research in mathematics education, psychology of creativity and research in gifted education started to gain more attention in the last decade, from researchers and the large public as well. The paper is intended to provide a concise survey of these links, with a focus on: frameworks for studying students’ creativity and giftedness in mathematics; domain specificity of creativity; some characteristics of mathematical creativity resulting from its specificity; relationships between mathematical giftedness and creativity from a mind-and-brain perspective; relationships between creativity, giftedness and social inclusion; underlying connections between mathematical creativity and innovation, creativity and metacognition, creativity, giftedness and expertise; and the teaching of mathematically-promising students with a focus on structuring their mathematical competencies. The paper offers also brief reviews of the chapters included in the book, stressing on the benefits of an integrated approach of creativity and giftedness in mathematics education.
New Ideas in Psychology, Apr 1, 2009
A mechanism underlying the computational properties of the cognitive architecture is construed ba... more A mechanism underlying the computational properties of the cognitive architecture is construed based on a minimal list of operational clusters. This general processing mechanism constitutes the dynamic infrastructure of mind (DIM). DIM consists in categories of mental operations ...
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011
Masterprof is a master program that was designed within and for a comprehensive partnership among... more Masterprof is a master program that was designed within and for a comprehensive partnership among faculty, graduate students and school teachers in order to give a consistent response to the social need for better educated teachers. This challenging aim requires top innovation at various levels of intervention. Therefore, Masterprof benefits from a flexible competence-based curriculum that is implemented via an interactive approach within a blended learning system. The new methodology is sustained by meaningful assessment tasks and multiple research partnerships. Our paper briefs on the philosophy of this didactic master program and the results of a two year implementation. .
Springer eBooks, Aug 27, 2007
This chapter reports on the mechanisms activated by the reform of education at the
confluence of... more This chapter reports on the mechanisms activated by the reform of education at the
confluence of economic, political and sociocultural factors in a system in transition to
democracy and a functional market economy. The paper analyses the fluctuating balance between ideological and professional positions in the decision-making process based on a case study of curriculum reform in Romania, which has been developed within the Education Reform Project co-financed by the Romanian government and the World Bank. The tensions among customs, traditions, mentalities, the will to integrate, and the desire to keep a cultural specificity in a global world, are not yet resolved. Such tensions bring new issues into the contemporary debates regarding globalisation and the new polarization of power. In this context, the reform in mathematics and science education is approached from the perspective of the relationship between knowledge and power during the industrial époque in Eastern Europe, stressing some of its implications for the post-industrial era and sketching some future developments in the framework of the
knowledge society.
We explore behaviors of high achievers 10 to 16 years old during a problem modification process b... more We explore behaviors of high achievers 10 to 16 years old during a problem modification process by looking at the ways students vary the constraints of a given problem. We found that these children swing between low amplitude driven creativity and failure to pose mathematically consistent problems when it comes about understanding the deep structure of mathematical concepts and strategies.
the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustra... more the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfi lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specifi c statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Feb 4, 2015
A brief overview emphasizes the low level of educational research in Romania, based on concrete d... more A brief overview emphasizes the low level of educational research in Romania, based on concrete data. The paper analyses the causes and the consequences of this situation, in both pre-university and university contexts. The study converges on the importance of building a professional development track in education that provides master and doctoral degrees in the teaching of a specified school subject, facilitating cutting-edge research in education.
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Books by Florence Mihaela Singer
design. Diverse perspectives on problem posing frame the concept as a springboard for scientific inquiry and the process as a means to promote mathematical understanding across the primary and secondary grades. Problem posing is demonstrated as enhancing students' problem-solving skills, bolstering knowledge retention, and improving attitudes toward mathematics, and the book provides evidence-based strategies for its integration into both classroom work and teacher education. This information is particularly critical as
mathematics-based knowledge continues to dominate technology and the sciences.
Papers by Florence Mihaela Singer
Cuprins
1. Noul tip de liceu: o poartă deschisă spre societatea de mâine?
2. Structura organizatorică a liceului: este posibilă excelenţa în diversitate?
3. Ciclurile curriculare: o altă formă de organizare?
4. Planurile-cadru: o nouă filosofie a timpului şcolar?
5. Programa şcolară: reper obligatoriu pentru un demers flexibil?
6. Aplicarea programelor şcolare: o altă didactică?
7. Manualele alternative: o soluţie pentru diversificarea demersului didactic?
8. Curriculum la decizia şcolii: puterea şcolii?
confluence of economic, political and sociocultural factors in a system in transition to
democracy and a functional market economy. The paper analyses the fluctuating balance between ideological and professional positions in the decision-making process based on a case study of curriculum reform in Romania, which has been developed within the Education Reform Project co-financed by the Romanian government and the World Bank. The tensions among customs, traditions, mentalities, the will to integrate, and the desire to keep a cultural specificity in a global world, are not yet resolved. Such tensions bring new issues into the contemporary debates regarding globalisation and the new polarization of power. In this context, the reform in mathematics and science education is approached from the perspective of the relationship between knowledge and power during the industrial époque in Eastern Europe, stressing some of its implications for the post-industrial era and sketching some future developments in the framework of the
knowledge society.
design. Diverse perspectives on problem posing frame the concept as a springboard for scientific inquiry and the process as a means to promote mathematical understanding across the primary and secondary grades. Problem posing is demonstrated as enhancing students' problem-solving skills, bolstering knowledge retention, and improving attitudes toward mathematics, and the book provides evidence-based strategies for its integration into both classroom work and teacher education. This information is particularly critical as
mathematics-based knowledge continues to dominate technology and the sciences.
Cuprins
1. Noul tip de liceu: o poartă deschisă spre societatea de mâine?
2. Structura organizatorică a liceului: este posibilă excelenţa în diversitate?
3. Ciclurile curriculare: o altă formă de organizare?
4. Planurile-cadru: o nouă filosofie a timpului şcolar?
5. Programa şcolară: reper obligatoriu pentru un demers flexibil?
6. Aplicarea programelor şcolare: o altă didactică?
7. Manualele alternative: o soluţie pentru diversificarea demersului didactic?
8. Curriculum la decizia şcolii: puterea şcolii?
confluence of economic, political and sociocultural factors in a system in transition to
democracy and a functional market economy. The paper analyses the fluctuating balance between ideological and professional positions in the decision-making process based on a case study of curriculum reform in Romania, which has been developed within the Education Reform Project co-financed by the Romanian government and the World Bank. The tensions among customs, traditions, mentalities, the will to integrate, and the desire to keep a cultural specificity in a global world, are not yet resolved. Such tensions bring new issues into the contemporary debates regarding globalisation and the new polarization of power. In this context, the reform in mathematics and science education is approached from the perspective of the relationship between knowledge and power during the industrial époque in Eastern Europe, stressing some of its implications for the post-industrial era and sketching some future developments in the framework of the
knowledge society.
Începând cu anul 1998-1999, în România a fost implementat primul curriculum național elaborat în perioada post-comunistă. Lucrarea prezintă reperele conceptuale și metodologice care au ghidat aplicarea noului curriculum național la nivelul învățământului primar și gimnazial, începând din anul școlar 2001-2002. Aceste repere au stat la baza organizării procesului instructiv-educativ pentru o perioadă relativ scurtă de timp. Ele însă reprezintă un document cu relevanță cel puțin istorică.
Începând cu anul 1998-1999, în România a fost implementat primul curriculum național elaborat în perioada post-comunistă. Lucrarea descrie modalitatea de proiectare a demersului didactic astfel încât activitatea la clasă a profesorului să conducă la rezultate consonante cu filosofia unui curriculum centrat pe elev. Terminologia introdusă se păstrează și astăzi, modelul de proiectare fiind însă aplicat adesea într-o manieră formală, fără rezultate reale în practica la clasă.