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• Measurement of physical activity in youth: a comparative study

  121-130

  Krisztina Szőnyi

  Alexandra Tuza

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  397

  Due to the inadequate quantity and quality of physical activity, more and more young people suffer from chronic illnesses. The aim of this study was to measure the health behavior of 5^th, 7^th and 9^th grade students in a Hungarian (Tiszafüred) and a Romanian (Oradea) institution with special regard to physical activity. A total of 206 students participated in the study. The questionnaire included questions related to socio-demographic data and physical activity habits. Differences between the mean scores of continuous variables were assessed by Mann-Whitney tests, and the frequency differences between categorical variables were evaluated by Fisher exact tests. Most of the Hungarian students (88%) think that they do enough exercise, while this rate is 81% in the Romanian school. No significant difference was found between the two institutions relating to the frequency of out of-school physical activities (p = 0.304), and the opinion on doing exercise (p = 0.267). Based on our results we can say that doing exercise out of school is popular among students in both the Hungarian and Romanian schools.

• Roma School Segregation and Educational Governance in Romania

  112-139

  Dan Patroc

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  62

  This article examines the governance of Roma school segregation in Romania as a national case situated within broader Central and Eastern European debates, arguing that legal prohibition alone does not ensure effective desegregation. Although the normative framework has expanded, segregation persists through administrative opacity, weak institutional capacity, and intra-school reconfiguration. The study conceptualizes segregation as a governance problem sustained by the interaction of ethnicity, poverty, and selective policy implementation.