Welcome

We are pleased to announce that the International Conference EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY CHALLENGES - TEACHERS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY – 3RD EDITION (EPC-TKS 2015) will be held in Romania - Ploieşti, May 8 - 10, 2015, The Palace of Culture (downtown Ploiesti).

The aim of the conference is to bring together a wide audience of experts, policy makers and practitioners in education and psychology. The suggested topics will allow presentation of thorough research, fruitful debate and opportunities for interaction among professionals with transdisciplinary interests.

Accepted full papers will be published in Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences by Elsevier, indexed by Science Direct, Scopus, Thomson Reuters (ISI Proceedings).

The Scientific Committee encourages researchers, faculty members, teachers, psychologists and students to submit papers to the Conference. The papers should be written in English, the official language of the event. All the submitted papers will be subject to a blind peer-review process.

At the end of the Conference the supporting journals' editors will select the best proceedings and invite the authors to submit extended papers for publication.

The Conference is organized by Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, the International Society for Applied Psychology (ISAPSY), and the Institute for the Development of Educational Assessment (IDEA), three organizations that will manage the scientific quality of the event.

Chairs EPC-TKS 2015

Call for Papers

The Scientific Committee encourages researchers, faculty members, teachers, psychologists and students to submit papers to the Conference. The papers should be written in English, the official language of the event.

The template for Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, together with the author guidelines, will be available soon on the Conference website.

TOPICS

• Curriculum
• Assessment
• ICT- based Solutions for Education
• Learning Theories - Effective Policies and Teaching Practices
• Education: Challenges in contemporary education
• School Counseling
• Educational Psychology
• Applied Psychology
• Psychological Counseling
• New Approaches in Psychology

Topics of the Conference

The topics of the conference are:

• Curriculum
• Assessment
• ICT- based Solutions for Education
• Learning Theories - Effective Policies and Teaching Practices
• Education: Challenges in contemporary education
• School Counseling
• Educational Psychology
• Applied Psychology
• Psychological Counseling
• New Approaches in Psychology

Invited Speakers

Dr. Pieter de Vries - "Who is the Learner in the DelftX Engineering MOOCs?" (see this document for supplementary information) Capacity building for Open and Online Education Systems Engineering Department Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology Delft - The Netherlands
	Dr. Viorel Nicolescu - "What I believe" Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Bucharest University, Bucharest, Romania Faculty of Lettters and Sciences, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti Ploiesti, Romania
Dr. Dan Stoicescu - "Education and Knowledge" Director of Institutional Research Cecil College, Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland, United States of America

The Scientific Committee

Members:

• Mihai Anitei - University of Bucharest, Romania
• Mihaela Badea - Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
• Zafer Bekirogullari - Samuel Maynard Centre, United Kingdom
• Mihaela Chraif - University of Bucharest, Romania
• Lucian Ciolan - University of Bucharest, Romania
• Mihai Coloja - Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
• Simona Eftimie - Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
• Howard Gardner - Harvard University, USA
• Eugene Gonzales - Educational Testing Service
• Cristina Iridon - Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
• Romiţa Iucu - University of Bucharest, Romania
• Corina Iurea - Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
• Roza Leikin - University of Haifa, Israel
• Solomon Marcus - Romanian Academy
• Alina Margariţoiu - Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
• Mircea Miclea - University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Peter Mitchell, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
• Basarab Nicolescu - Romanian Academy
• Liviu Papadima - University of Bucharest, Romania
• Dan Potolea - University of Bucharest, Romania
• Cristina Safta - Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
• Ligia Sarivan - Institute of Educational Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
• Florence Mihaela Singer - Educational Sciences Department, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti
• Catherine Snow - Harvard University, USA
• Emil Stan - Educational Sciences Department, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti
• Mihaela Suditu - Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
• Nikos Terzis – University of Nicosia, Cyprus
• Bogdan Tudorică, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
• Cristian Vasile - Educational Sciences Department, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti
• Cristian Voica - University of Bucharest, Romania