„EDUCATION FACING CONTEMPORARY WORLD ISSUES"

Location: University of Pitesti, Romania

8-9 OCTOBER 2010

PRESENTING THE CONFERENCE

The aim of this Conference is to create a debate conference concerning the great challenges which the contemporary society addresses to education of everywhere: globalization, interculturality, development, communication, partnership, profesionalisation, qualification.

The participants will be invited to discuss about the priorities of education in the beginning of [this] the third millennium, about multiplying the functions belonging to education within the Knowledge Society, about increasing the role of the school institutions at the local communities' level, about ways of innovating the teaching & learning processes.

Opportunities for debating on/upon the initial & continuing training of the didactic staff and for presentation of important educational European organisms (European Society for Research on the Adult of Adults, European Forum of Vocational Education and Training, The Balkan Society for Pedagogy and Education) will be created.

The conference is equally opened to researchers, educational policies makers, strategists, managers and educators which are performing their activity in classrooms or in non-formal & informal educational organizations as well.

All registered papers will be peer-reviewed. The papers selected by the Scientific Commitee will be published, in extenso, in the Conference Workbook.

The official language of the conference is English.