Professor Anca Nedelcu, PhD, teaching staff at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Bucharest, education specialist, speaks, in the most recent episode of the microSCOPE series: UB researcher at the microphone, about school and its people, pupils, students and their learning necessities, but also about the reflexive professor and the role of reflexivity in education.
Episode no. 12 of the microSCOPE series: UB researcher at the microphone is available below.
For Anca Nedelcu, the teaching career came as the most natural thing possible because, as she likes to say, some fields or careers choose you before you have the chance of choosing them, at least at a conscious level. However, it is also the profession that she purposefully and responsibly chose, and which held her away from any other career temptations.
Asked how to rehabilitate the prestige of the teaching profession in Romania and what we should do so that more well-prepared young people choose a career in education, Anca Nedelcu shows that a major problem resides in the fact that many professors have themselves lost trust in their own mission . According to our guest, a solution would be “a discussion on the role of education at the level of the entire society. Because, as she mentions, a society that disdains school, criticizing it without helping, drowning it without even trying to offer a life belt, harms itself.” In other words, school by itself cannot be better than the society it forms part of.
A specialist in education sciences with intense preoccupations in the sphere of equity and diversity in education, Anca Nedelcu shows that an equitable system would suppose an array of solutions which could offer both an inclusive education, meaning a minimum of quality education for all, as well as a just one, in the sense that the progress of a pupil should only in small part depend on his situation at home.
One of the favorite fields of professor Anca Nedelcu is reflexivity in education; she actually teaches a course titled The reflexive professor, which invites students to see what is behind educational enterprises and to ask themselves why a professor does what he does. In fact, this course formed the basis of an innovative educational project based on an active community of students who graduated the course. More specifically, we are talking about the academic blog sucitoruldeminti.ro, which includes over 150 authors, current and former students, and which managed to take the ideas from the course outside the limits of the university, transforming them in relevant resources for the whole of society.
More about the possible solutions for healing the education system in Romania, on the status of professors in our country, but also on how to construct a healthy and dynamic interaction with students, and current priorities in the academic field, are shared by Anca Nedelcu in episode no. 12 of the microSCOPE series: UB researcher at the microphone.
Professor Anca Nedelcu is teaching staff at the Department of Education Sciences of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Bucharest, holding courses for Management of education institutions, Intercultural education (Bachelor level) and Communication and intercultural negotiation, The reflexive professor, Media education (Master level). She is vice-dean responsible with the Management of quality and international relations; she is part of the coordination team of the Master’s studies program Innovative learning strategies. Didactic MA.
Her fields of professional interest and research aim for the problematic of equity, diversity and reflexivity in education, educational management, the pedagogy of diversity/quality and equity in education, the pedagogy of the educational organization/school and its actors; international and local dimensions in structuring strategies and educational practices/ transfer, innovation, adaptation and cultural influences and well-being in school, the influence of old and new media in education.
She enrolled in courses at the University of Amsterdam, Holland, she is an accredited trainer through the program Advanced Training of Trainers in Europe, unreeled by the Council of Europe and the European Commission, educational consultant; she coordinated numerous research – development projects, working in collaboration with institutions such as: World Bank, UNICEF, the Ministry of Education, the Center Education 2000+, the National Agency for Roma people etc.
More information on Anca Nedelcu is available here.
Part of the science communication program developed by the University of Bucharest, the “microSCOPE: UB researcher at the microphone” series aims to present in a dynamic and concise manner information on the concrete results of notable research efforts within the UB.
Through its format and objectives, the “microSCOPE: UB researcher at the microphone” comes to complete the science communication program within the University of Bucharest, which also includes the UB Conferences – Science for All Understanding and the UB Dose of Science.
It aims at promoting those research projects (patents, articles and books) which, through the major contribution to the field they belong to, have come to benefit from international recognition, thus encouraging the connection between UB and various universities and research institutions abroad.
The microSCOPE, whose guests are primarily UB researchers awarded for their research results, aims to contribute to informing the Romanian academic milieu, but also other categories of interested public, on the main research projects carried out inside UB, thus stimulating the development of future collaborative initiatives.