Elena‐Loreni Baciu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6522366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena‐Loreni Baciu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena‐Loreni |
| FAMILY NAME | Baciu |
| SIGNATURE | BACIU E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | West University of Timişoara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7227-1462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Staying Attached
Based on Social Identity Theory, this study contributes to the understanding of how the attachment felt by students to their university (called here institutional attachment) works as a crucial factor in promoting their life satisfaction and decreasing their dropout intentions. The study aimed to investigate the relations between students' satisfaction with the quality of higher education, their dropout intention and their satisfaction with life …
The Best Times of Our Lives?” Institutional Factors That Shape University Students’ Quality of Life
Acquiring a thorough grasp of the factors influencing students’ academic quality of life is essential for educators, administrators, and legislators to successfully support students and foster an environment centered on their well-being and growth. Utilizing Tinto’s model of student integration and the theory of social support (theories selected because they focus on the importance of academic and social integration in promoting student retention…
Social goals under a neoliberal agenda
In this study we draw on Foucault's work on governmentality and examine the power dynamics involved in establishing and implementing policies that promote equality in European higher education. Using a qualitative case study design, we selected 17 public universities situated in 13 European countries, from which we collected information about (1) the way these institutions problematize inequality in reference to participation in higher education,…
Romanian Roma
Roma individuals are struggling to access the formal labour market in Romania. Previous research occupied with this issue has traditionally been dominated by quantitative studies of socio-economic indicators that cling to the characteristics of the ethnic group. The study presented here, however, uses institutional ethnography as a method of social inquiry to demonstrate that this issue needs to be studied from a bottom-up perspective. The articl…
Exploring the social relations of Roma employability
The article reports on a qualitative study of Roma employability in Romania. Being the largest ethnic minority group in Europe, the Roma population is the object of profound marginalization in most of the countries where they reside, by measures such as spatial segregation and exclusion from the formal labour market. This article focuses particularly on the Roma living in rural segregated communities. Inspired by institutional ethnography, the ai…
Exploring the social relations of Roma employability
The article reports on a qualitative study of Roma employability in Romania. Being the largest ethnic minority group in Europe, the Roma population is the object of profound marginalization in most of the countries where they reside, by measures such as spatial segregation and exclusion from the formal labour market. This article focuses particularly on the Roma living in rural segregated communities. Inspired by institutional ethnography, the ai…
Romanian Roma
Roma individuals are struggling to access the formal labour market in Romania. Previous research occupied with this issue has traditionally been dominated by quantitative studies of socio-economic indicators that cling to the characteristics of the ethnic group. The study presented here, however, uses institutional ethnography as a method of social inquiry to demonstrate that this issue needs to be studied from a bottom-up perspective. The articl…
Exploring the social relations of Roma employability
The article reports on a qualitative study of Roma employability in Romania. Being the largest ethnic minority group in Europe, the Roma population is the object of profound marginalization in most of the countries where they reside, by measures such as spatial segregation and exclusion from the formal labour market. This article focuses particularly on the Roma living in rural segregated communities. Inspired by institutional ethnography, the ai…
Staying Attached
Based on Social Identity Theory, this study contributes to the understanding of how the attachment felt by students to their university (called here institutional attachment) works as a crucial factor in promoting their life satisfaction and decreasing their dropout intentions. The study aimed to investigate the relations between students' satisfaction with the quality of higher education, their dropout intention and their satisfaction with life …
The Best Times of Our Lives?” Institutional Factors That Shape University Students’ Quality of Life
Acquiring a thorough grasp of the factors influencing students’ academic quality of life is essential for educators, administrators, and legislators to successfully support students and foster an environment centered on their well-being and growth. Utilizing Tinto’s model of student integration and the theory of social support (theories selected because they focus on the importance of academic and social integration in promoting student retention…
Social goals under a neoliberal agenda
In this study we draw on Foucault's work on governmentality and examine the power dynamics involved in establishing and implementing policies that promote equality in European higher education. Using a qualitative case study design, we selected 17 public universities situated in 13 European countries, from which we collected information about (1) the way these institutions problematize inequality in reference to participation in higher education,…
Economic growth (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Higher education (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Academic achievement (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works)