The higher education of physical culture from the republic of moldova: between tradition and reform (monograph)

Abstract

The process of Bologna has transformed the European Higher Education face. In all the countries the significant changes intervened and were applied, which allowed the appearance of the European Higher Education area and founded the Higher Education, which serves to a growing assortment of launched requests by the community and society; the structures from the higher education were modified, were developed the systems of quality assurance, were implemented the mobility facilitation mechanisms and were identified a number of problems regarding the social dimension of higher education. There is no precedent for a such project, which on the basis of voluntary cooperation, harmonizes and implements common objectives for the higher education systems from 47 countries. The trends of the higher education development on the international level require us the formulation of the next imperatives in its modernization: the gradual transition to the profile higher education, accessible for all on the merit basis; the quality of the higher education – defined factor of the life quality; education- the reproducing basic factor and preserving the nation’s health and the continuous education (lifelong). In this context, the strategic goals of the physical culture higher education from the Republic of Moldova cannot be convergent than the social-economical development, because the university works like a modernization center, scientific knowledge and technological development. The modernization educational policies of the physical culture education are realized in this way, as this one to satisfy the requirements of a knowledge society, in the conditions of an economical competitive market and of a society based on the European democratic values. At the same time , the priorities in the university strategic development are: the improvement of the physical culture higher education quality in agreement with the European and international standards; the increase of the youths inclusion degree in the profile education and the promotion of the wide access to the studies of the youths belonging to the economical, deprived, social categories; the assurance of comparability and compatibility of the physical culture national higher education system within the European higher education and the increase of the physical culture higher education competitiveness from the Republic of Moldova on the national and international area.

Research objectives: Analysis of the current theory and practice regarding the development of higher education of physical culture; assessment of development level of higher education of physical culture in Republic of Moldova in terms of globalization; elaboration of diagnosis towards current situation of physical culture in Republic of Moldova; argumentation of strategic development of higher education of physical culture in Republic of Moldova in context of Bologna process; argumentation of the new Practice Guideline elaboration as a basis for the acquisition, by specialists in the field, of general and specific skills required by the labor market.

Scientific novelty and originality lay in the achieving of a thorough research concerning the evolution of higher education of physical culture in Republic of Moldova; in developing its actual diagnosis; in formulation of the strategic objectives of higher education development of physical culture it with regard to globalization; in argumentation of the new Practice Guideline elaboration as a basis for the acquisition, by specialists in the field, of general and specific skills required by the labor market

The important scientific issue solved represents the development of a current diagnosis towards higher education of physical culture and sports in Republic of Moldova, being as a prerequisite for formulating its strategic objectives of development in the context of globalization and the modification of professional practice (from procedural aspect and curricular content point of view) in order students to acquire, as much as possible, general and specific skills that are required by the labor market and their professional insertion.