Collective Capacity Building

Simona Sava, PhD Habil, is Professor of Educational Sciences at the West University of Timisoara, Romania. She is specialized in adult education and is a member of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame.Claudia Borca, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at the Educational Sciences Department, the West University of Timisoara, Romania. She is specialized in special needs education, in building up capacities through partnerships in and/or for education.Gheorghe Clitan, PhD Habil, is Professor at the Philosophy and Communication Studies Department, the West University of Timisoara, Romania. He is specialized in critical thinking tests, especially in LSAT.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Towards Collective Capacity Building in a Transdisciplinary PerspectiveSimona SavaPart 1: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Collective Capacity Building1. Science, Truth, Democracy: A Troubled Marriage?Mircea Dumitru2. Capacity Building by EnculturationEkkehard Nuissl3. Cultural Heritage, Identity and Collective Capacity BuildingSorin Vlad Predescu4. Recovering Parsons through Roma’s Voices for Constructing European Societal CommunityTeresa Sordé, Olga Serradell, Esther Oliver and Emilia Aiello5. Distorting the Message of Religious Symbols by Fallacious Reasoning in the Electoral Posters of Political CampaignsGheorghe Clitan and Oana Barbu-Kleitsch6. Political Communication on Social Media during February 2017 Protests in RomaniaSimona Bader7. Learning Democracy: Beyond the Traditional DidacticsKatarina Popovic, Maja Maksimovic and Aleksa Jovanovic8. Critical Reflection in Contemporary Adult Education: An Essential Element for Personal and Collective Capacity BuildingGeorge A. Koulaouzides and Theodoros KoutroukisPart 2: Collective Capacity Building in Higher Education 9. Who Are the Knowledge Producers in Higher Education? An Inquiry into the Self-Perceptions of Postdoctoral Researchers in Higher Education in Spanish UniversitiesGeorgeta Ion and Marina Tomàs-Folch10. Nudging Generation Y towards Education for SustainabilityLiliana Donath, Monica Boldea and Ana-Maria Popa11. Capacity Building in Initial Teacher Education (ITE): Collaboration for Collective Capacity BuildingIrina Maslo and Mikael Cronhjort12. Building Collective Capacity for Adult Learning in Distance EducationMaria N. Gravani13. Nurturing the Well-Being of University Students for Improved Capacity BuildingIoana Darjan, Loredana Al Ghazi, Anca Lustrea, Mihai Predescu and Mariana Crasovan14. The Normative Value of Health: Epigenetical, Bioethical and Theological Approaches to Health EducationAurora Carmen BarbatIndex