Noi abordări didactice și provocări educaționale în învățământul superior

Abstract

The paper proposes an analysis of the educational undertaking in higher
education systems, in the context of the paradigmatic changes in the teaching process
and of the occurrence of certain global issues with regard to the reduction of student
population. Recent studies and official policies regarding the competences of the future
professionals, the learning styles and the teaching strategies indicate the need for a
change in the teaching approaches in the Romanian higher education. The academic
environment allows and, at the same time, requires that the general principles of
pedagogy for adults be applied: the rigorous definition of the aims and the content
selection according to competences and type of education, the student’s assumed
responsibility, the interaction between teacher/mentor/educator and students, the
effective use of cognitive and socio-emotional energy generated by the educational group,
the selection of the teaching strategy in accordance with the target group and with the
topics tackled, vocational counselling and professional tutoring. The new trends are
being applied in more higher education systems around the world, producing substantial
changes in curriculum and successfully integrating the exploratory approaches, which
develop the students’ thinking, the communicative, analytical, synthetical and
argumentative skills, the transfer of knowledge and creativity.