Professor Stan PANTURU Ph.D.

SPECIALITY: EDUCATION (PEDAGOGY)

Actual activity: assistant professor at Transilvania University of Brasov, Head of the Psychology & Pedagogy Department.

Office Address: 56 Balcescu Street, 2200 Brasov, Romania.

Phone number: 0040 268 470 190

MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCES

1991 - 1993 – Scientific secretary of the Economic Sciences Faculty Transilvania University of Brasov;
1993 - 1999 – Head of the Department for Teachers Training and Head of the Psychology & Pedagogy Department, Transilvania University of Brasov;
1995 - 1999 – member of the Senate and The Academic Committee from Transilvania University of Brasov;
1995-1999 – member of the Didactic Council of the University Senate from Transilvania University of Brasov;
2002-2003 – Head of the Psychology & Pedagogy Department;
1997- 2000 – Project Coordinator of the TEMPUS Project: S_JEP TRUST-1997. The main objective of this project was the development of a Continuous Learning Center for the high-school teachers (and engineers-teachers) in the fields of Mechanics and Electrothecnics. The EU partners were: Academie de Strasbourg (France), University of Ghent (Belgium) and Technological Educational Institute of Patras (Greece).

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ACTIVITY

At the beginning of my scientific research I focused on the field of school and professional guidance. As a result I was one of the co-authors of School and vocational guidance published by the CCD Brasov. With time I enlarged my scientific interests to other fields like general didactics, preschool pedagogy, continual learning didactics, training theories and methodologies, assessment theories and procedures.
Over 40 of my research papers were accepted at symposiums, local, national and international scientific sessions.
Over 30 articles were published in journals like: Forum, (Romanian) Pedagogical Journal, Preschool Educational Journal, in different Informative Bulletins and in several research volumes edited as a result of scientific sessions.

PUBLISHED BOOKS
1. School and vocational guidance (1977) coauthor, CCD Brasov
2. Fundamentals of Pedagogy (1995) Transilvania Univ. Publishing House, Brasov;
3. Didactics (1999) coordinator and coauthor, Transilvania Univ. Publishing House, Brasov;
4. Continual Learning Didactics (1999) coauthor, Transilvania Univ. Publishing House, Brasov;
5. Psychological and pedagogical initial training of teachers (2001) coauthor, Transilvania Univ. Publishing House, Brasov;
6. Training theories and methodologies (2002) Transilvania Univ. Publishing House, Brasov.

WRITTEN COURSES FOR THE OPEN & DISTANT LEARNING DEPARTMENT
1. Training theories and methodologies (2001)
2. Theories of Education (2001)
3. Introductory Pedagogy (2001)

PUBLISHED ARTICLES
1. Language (1974) in vol. Learning using heuristics methods, CCD, Brasov;
2. The relationship between preferential relationships and school progress – at the class level (1978) in vol. School Progress, EDP, Bucharest;
3. La valeur socio-morale des motifs de l'option professionnelle (1984), în Revue de Pédagogie
4. L'influence de l'activité didactique sur la formation de la capacité de valorisation des étudiants (1985), în Revue de Pédagogie
5. Knowing the dynamics of different professions – the way we ensure success in school and professional guidance (1985), in (Romanian) Pedagogical Journal;
6. Optimizing strategies for the university lectures (1986) in Forum, No. 2;
7. How to connect the joy of having children with the duty to nurture them as valuable people (1986) in Parents Almanac;
8. The valorization capacity – means and end in youth education (1987) in vol. Participation, Youth and Social Progress, Sinaia;
9. The profession – participative cultural model (1986) in vol. Youth, Education and Social Action, Sinaia;
10. The love and competence of the parent as educator (1990) in Preschool Educational Journal;
11. The quality of school assessment (2000) in vol. Efficiency, Legitimacy & Ethics;
12. The “open” problems of formative assessment (2001) in Efficiency, Legitimacy & Ethics in the 3-rd millennium Romania, vol. VIII;
13. A different perspective of conceptual and methodological issues in self training (2001) in vol. Efficiency, Legitimacy & Ethics in the 3-rd millennium Romania, vol. IX;
14. Learning theories view from the learning-development perspective (2001) in vol. Efficiency, Legitimacy & Ethics in the 3-rd millennium Romania, vol. IX;
15. Institutional Analysis – Lunca Câlnicului Secondary School (2002) coauthor, in Reform Implementation in Compulsory Learning (see also www.cedu.ro)