Education and Research conceptual aspects and operationalization models

Within the first part of this paper we strive to identify the narrowest and the operational meanings related to the terms of education and research as well as the logical and semantic relationships established between them. Starting from the synthetic and interdisciplinary Character of education we can differentiate several important new perspectives regarding the interpretation of the training process. On one hand we apprehend that education can be understood as a transfer of knowledge, as a conveyance of information, but on the other hand, it can be perceived as a complex managerial activity. A series of common aspects by means of which research and education turn out to be in a tangential and meddling relationship are emphasized in the second part of this paper, more clearly when the issue of pedagogical methods is being analyzed. By shaping didactic methods, research and investigation procedures we have suggested and experimented three ways regarding the development of the didactic activities within the Teacher Training Department at the University of Oradea: engaging students who attend a master program in activities of research and in publishing their studies and investigations, the joint elaboration of books and textbooks as well as the employment of experimentation and examination procedures while carrying on the pedagogical practice of students. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of the University of Pitesti, Romania