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• Labor migration in Szeklerland: Migration and development, decision-making

  17-31

  Julianna Bodó

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  210

  Migration for the purpose of employment is an important social phenomenon. The following
  study provides insight into the situation of labor migration in Szeklerland after the change of
  regime. It outlines the most important trends that define this social process from 1990 to the
  present and indicates the changes along which the different periods of labor migration can be
  separated. The study discusses the changing perceptions of the connection between migration
  and development. The last subchapter contains an analysis about the phenomenon of decisionmaking in the context of new lifestyle trends resulting from migration.

• Analysis of the space-based identity structure of rural elite in a region of Szeklerland

  32-49

  Ágnes Sárosi-Blága

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  178

  The new challenges of rural areas support expansion of the range of professional research and
  analysis focusing on local or regional identity structures as a quality factor of development.
  These new approaches are particularly important in the rural areas of the post-socialist
  countries, which are in the initial stages of the recognition of the potential inherent in the
  endogenous development paradigm. In Szeklerland, according to the new rural development
  paradigm, place-based identity could be a potential for the sustainable development. The aim
  of my paper is to present the major dimensions of the place-based identity structure in a microregion of Szeklerland.

• The situation of Roma education in Harghita county – attitudes of pedagogues

  75-92

  Judit Jakab

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  173

  The study presents the attitudes and behaviours of pedagogues, based on interviews with
  teachers working with Roma children which constitute the quotidian educational practice. In
  absence of institutional programs, infrastructural and personal conditions, the teachers need
  to find solutions for the given difficulties. They become the key figures of the integration process
  and hence their attitudes and approaches are determining from the point of view of Roma
  children’s school efficiency. The target audience of the research are composed by pedagogues,
  who teach in elementary schools in the Csiki Basin in Harghita county, where the rate of Roma
  learners exceeds 25 percents. Signalling the main directions of the national policy and the
  presentation of literature examining the Hungarian-Roma relationship in Szeklerland offer a
  broader framework for the interpretation of the subject.

• Barriers to parental involvement in school life of a rural settlement in Szeklerland

  103-122

  Mária-Magdolna Szász

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  204

  This study examines the barriers of parental involvement in school life through a sample of a rural settlement in Szeklerland, using the six areas of parental involvement discussed by Epstein (1987). In the study area, the actual process of parental involvement in the Epsteinian sense is in its initial stages. Although behaviours that can be categorised as school-parent cooperation are emerging, conscious parent-school cooperation is not yet characteristic.

• Szeklerland – social science approaches

  3-16

  Zoltán Bíró A.

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  137

  The study reviews the situation of social science research in Szeklerland after 1989, describes the
  institutional framework for the organization of research. Presents the most important features
  of the Szekler society with a view to providing an interpretative context for the Cross-Sections
  Social Science Journal. It also indicates the areas of analysis in which regional researches were
  conducted, but could not be included in this study compilation.

• Touristic entrepreneuring: „Szeklerland, the East of West and West of East”

  206-226

  Emese Emőke Tóth-Batizán

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  167

  The present article analyses the touristic market in Covasna/Kovászna county, Transylvania, Romania. The basis of the paper are 30 semistructured deep interviews and one
  focus group interview which had 6 participants who are all representatives of organisations active in the field of tourism. As the result of our research we can clearly state
  that there are four different regulation levels: the level of governmental regulations,
  professional organisations, cooperation and level of informal economy. Through the
  presentation of these four levels we will also touch upon the issues related to professionalization, trust and quality.