Course aims:

Developing the abilities of identifying the new components of personality forming during the adolescence
Exemplifying the interdependencies between the profile of the young people development and the social-cultural context
Describing the main characteristics of learning for the young people

Course Entry Requirements:

Developing the abilities of applying the psychopedagogical knowledge for the optimisation of the teaching-learning process for adolescents, young people and adults

Course contents:

1. The adolescence – the stage of ample physical and mental transformations 2. Characteristic of adolescent personality; the originality crisis. The professional ideal; counselling the adolescents for scholar and professional orientation/ choosing a future profession 3. The youth – the stage of complete development of human the physical and mental capacities 4. The adult – the stage of mental maturity 5. Permanent education/ lifelong education 6. The organisation of didactic activity for young people and adults 7. The elaboration of didactic activities for young people and adults 8. Teaching – learning methods for the education of young people and adults 9. The evaluation in the professional formation of young people and adults 10. The methodology of elaborating and sustain scientific works

Teaching methods:

Conversation, exemplification, case study, questioning, brainstorming, debate

Learning outcomes:

1. Applications related to the specifics of mental development for adolescents, young people and adults 50% 2. Elaborating a sketch for a programme of continuous professional formation for young people and adults 50%

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

1.Applications related to the specifics of mental development for adolescents, young people and adults 50%2.Elaborating a sketch for a programme of continuous professional formation for young people and adults 50%

Recommended reading:

Birch, A, Psihologia dezvoltării, Ed. Tehnică, BuBucureşti, 2000, „-70.
Munteanu, A, Psihologia dezvoltării umane, Ed. Polirom, Iasi, 2006, 1-80.
Munteanu, A., Psihologia vârstelor adulte şi a senectuţii, Ed. Eurobit, Timisoara, 2004, 1-75.
Schiopu, U.,, Criza de originalitate la adolescenţi, Ed Didactica și Pedagogica, Bucuresti, 1997, 1-50.
Emily P. Backes and Richard J. Bonnie., The Promise of Adolescence, Emily P. Backes and Richard J. Bonnie., Washington (DC), 2019, 1-90.