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Mortimer J. Adler

Title: KERETIZMUS A romániai magyar sajtó és működtetői 1989 után

Author: Papp Z. Attila

Short presentation: This work intends to present and analzye one segment of the Hungarian media in Romania after 1989. It focuses on print media, more specifically on its operating side, the community of journalists. Inviting the reader to take a look at some historical changes, media theories and special literature along with the author's own research results the book tries to describe the functioning and special logic of the minority media from a sociological point of view.

Funder: The Apáczai Community Foundation - Budapest

Year of appearance: 2005

Title: KIHASZNÁLATLANUL A romániai (magyar) felnőttképzés rendszere

Author: Attila Papp Z., János Márton, Szilvia Németh

Short presentation: There is some kind of constant gap between the demands of the labour market and the employees' competencies. The new kinds of demands appear much quicker than they can be satisfied by the education and training on offer. This volume tries to follow the Romanian system of adult education in Hyngarian language that started at the beginning of the 90s.

Funder: The Apáczai Community Foundation - Budapest

Year of appearance: 2005

Title: Catalogue of adult education institutions in Harghita county

Author: Soros Educational Center Foundation

Short presentation: According to this catalogue in Harghita county there are more than 40 institutions and organizations that work in the field of adult education. These institutions and organisations , some of them private enterprises, others non-profit organizations, offer some 170 courses. These courses are mainly qualification courses in different fields of industries and services and also ICT (Information and Comouter Technology)courses, language courses, business courses, art courses and others. The most important message of the catalogue, however, is that adult education can mean an excellent opportunity to integrate ourselves in society as far as employability, active citizenship and economic development is concerned.

Funder: European Commission (Socrates-Gundtvig programme)

Year of appearance: 2002

Title: Guidelines to encourage the participative use of technologies in the Adult Basic Education

Author: 10694-CP-2003-1-MINERVA-M Team

The main aim of this guide is to propose guidelines to foster the participative use of ICT in Adult Basic Education, from their development to their use and to break the barriers for participation, involvement, study and learning. We also want to generate e-learning contexts which day by day give an incentive to learn and participate.
This guide presents the main conclusions of the Minerva project "ABE Campus. Virtual Basic Education Communities in Europe" developed from 2003 to 2005 in seven different organizations.

Funder: European Commission (Minerva Programme)

Year of appearance: 2005

Title: Organizaţiile de mediu din România - Raport de evaluare naţională

Author: Marius Cosmeanu

Year of appearance: 2008