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

  75-92

  Judit Jakab

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  29

  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.

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

  206-226

  Emese Emőke Tóth-Batizán

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  23

  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.

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

  32-49

  Ágnes Sárosi-Blága

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  24

  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 Career-building effect of volunteering in higher education

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  Hajnalka Fényes

  Márta Mohácsi

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  70

  Nowadays the motives for volunteering are changing among higher education students, and
  besides traditional altruistic motives, career-building motives also appear (the acquisition
  of work experience and professional knowledge, professional development, networking,
  the presentation of voluntary work in the resume). In this paper, we use data from a survey
  conducted in five Central and Eastern European countries (N=2,199) to examine through linear
  regression analysis the factors affecting the strength of career-building motives and to analyse
  through a logistic regression model the determinants of whether or not volunteering is related to the field of study. Our hypotheses are formulated based on the literature. Our results show
  that career-building motives are more pronounced among women and students who have a
  close relationship with external friends outside the university, study outside Hungary, and study
  something other than engineering, computer science or science. Voluntary work is more likely to
  be related to the field of study among teacher education students, students with an unfavourable
  financial situation, those who study in Romania, and those who have a close relationship with
  faculty.