Moldavian Journal for Education and Social Psychology

A Study on the Examination of the Teaching Problems Experienced in Distance Education during the Covid 19 Pandemic

Şahin Akdağ, Burak Demir, Zöhre Serttaş — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0200

After the emergence of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, the emergency distance education process has started in many countries after it has spread all over the world and turned into a pandemic. As in many levels of education, universities have tried to continue their education with emergency distance education. In this study, the opinions of the instructors about the instructional problems brought about by the distance education process in the Covid-19 period were included In the research, the qualitative research technique was used and the obtained data were presented by tabulating with Percentage and Frequency distributions. According to the results obtained in the research, it was shown that Instructors and Students had problems in attention access and motivation in the distance education process.

The Relationship Between Future Perception Tendency and Sustainable Consumption Behaviors

Burak Demir, Ali Tatar — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0200

As a result of studies examining individual differences in temporal perception and the relationship of these differences with sustainable behavior, it has been observed that long-term perception predicts participation in pro-environmental attitudes and sustainable consumption behaviors. In this study, the relationship between the differences in future perceptions and sustainable consumption behaviors was examined in terms of individuals residing in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). In order to test this relationship, “Sustainable Consumption Behaviors” scale and CFC (Consideration of Future Consequences) scale were used. Since the normality assumption of the data could not be achieved, it was decided to use nonparametric tests. As a result of the analysis of the data, collected from 319 participants who were accessed online, it was found a statistically significant but a weak relationship between "Perception Tendency of the Future" and "Sustainable Consumption Behaviors". While no statistically significant relationship was found between the "Short-Term Thinking Tendency" subscale and "Sustainable Consumption Behaviors", it was found that the "Long-Term Thinking Tendency" subscale had a statistically significant relationship with "Sustainable Consumption Behaviors". In line with this finding, it was determined that those who tend to think long-term do their consumption behavior by taking sustainability into account compared to the group who thinks short-term. In addition, it has been determined that there is a noticeable difference between those who do sports and those who never do, and in this context, those who do sports differ significantly in terms of environmental awareness, unnecessary purchasing and sustainable consumption behaviors compared to those who do not do sports. It has been determined that the importance given to healthy eating is significantly related to long-term thinking, similarly, as the importance given to healthy nutrition increases, consumption becomes more environmentally friendly, and as the importance given to healthy nutrition decreases, consumption behavior that takes into account sustainability is abandoned.

Online Education in Covid-19 Pandemic: A Thematic Case Study of Secondary Grade Tribal Students from India

Jaya Mrinalini, H.B. Patel — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Education helps in acquiring knowledge, skills, and competencies required for the development of an individual. The outbreak of Covid-19 shut all the educational institutes worldwide. Under these circumstances, all the educational institutes switched to an online mode of education, considering it a viable option. This transition was an arduous task for both students and teachers. The situation was even more challenging for students from underprivileged communities whose dropout rates are always high, especially when they enter secondary schooling. The tribal group are called as Scheduled Tribes (ST) in India represents one such disadvantaged group. Even before the pandemic, the tribal students accounted for the highest number of dropouts at different levels of schooling. Undoubtedly, switching to an online mode of education was not an easy task for them. Now that the schools have started functioning regularly, it becomes an important task to understand the impact online education has on the learning level of students, especially from a tribal community. This exploratory study presents the thematic analysis of responses collected from fifty tribal students studying in a Secondary school dealing with their experience of education through online mode.

Aspects Regarding Cooperation within the European Union – Learning Integration through Art 87 of the TFEU

Loredana Terec-Vlad — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0200

The origins of the idea of an United Europe are lost in the mists of time; the Roman conquests in the Antiquity reflect a series of trends of European unity, but in the Middle Ages, religious conflicts divided Europe: on the one hand we talk about pontifical unity, and on the other hand about imperial unity (Pascariu, 2020). The European Union is presented as more than an international organization with many specifications, but it is less than a state. The European Union, as an area, has been built over several decades and is constantly strengthening its institutions. Thus, after the end of the Second World War, after the atrocities of the Holocaust that resulted in the death of millions of people, the decision was made to create a space of peace and stability. In order to have an overall picture of what the Holocaust represented, it is necessary to emphasize the fact that the human species was divided into two categories: the Aryan race and the others (this category included Jews, Roma, people with physical or mental disabilities, etc.).

Consumption, Veblen and Teleology

Alexandru Trifu — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0200

In fact, this paper is following to present the work of Thorstein Bunde Veblen unifying the two other terms, as an early brick to the economic theory, influencing the becoming of the economic theory and practice.

Starting from Veblen’s key idea and special approach of teleology, in economics particularly, we’ve chosen as example of a final and determined thing/aspect the act of consumption. That is in the Veblenian sense, of conspicuous consumption, and the consumption as general human and economic activity.

Using synthesis of all theoretical and practical sources, the result of the paper is that one of consumption, even luxury, which takes into account the constraints of nowadays phenomena and activities around the world. Furthermore, the economic theory must be tacticized, based exactly on these challenges and influences both from interior of economic and social systems and from the external environment.