Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the International Conference EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY CHALLENGES – TEACHERS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY – 8TH EDITION (EPC-TKS 2025) will be held in Romania – Ploieşti, November 7-8, 2025.

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 a volume by an international publishing house, and will also be proposed for indexing by Thomson Reuters (ISI Conference Proceedings).

The Scientific Committee encourages researchers, faculty members, teachers, psychologists and students to submit papers to the Conference. The (maximum) 6 page papers should be written in English, the official language of the event. All the submitted papers will be subject to a double blind peer-review process. You can submit your paper at the following e-mail address: epc-tks_submissions@upg-ploiesti.ro

At the end of the Conference the editors of the supporting journals 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, International Society for Applied Psychology and the Museum of Natural Sciences, organizations that will manage the scientific quality of the event.

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 to be used for papers, together with the author guidelines, is available on the Conference website.

TOPICS

    EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES

    • Arts and Communication in Education: STEM/STEAM in the new world context
    • Curriculum
    • Assessment
    • ICT- based Solutions for Education
    • Learning Theories – Effective Policies and Teaching Practices
    • Education: Challenges in contemporary education
    • School Counseling
    • New technologies, culture and education
    • General didactics and specialties: tradition and digital
    • Didactics and informatics: what learning strategies to follow?
    • Fundamental values transmitted by culture, literature in linguistics
    • Challenges in the education of the young people in the mediatized world context
    • Policies and strategies for information and media education

    PSYCHOLOGY

    • Clinical Psychology
    • Psychotherapy
    • Neuroscience
    • Organizational and Work Psychology
    • Defense Psychology
    • Educational Psychology
    • Applied Psychology
    • Psychological Counseling
    • New Approaches in Psychology
    • The impact of technological change in the contemporary world
    • The influences of new technologies on the psychology of young people
    • Core values in philosophy, psychology, education, history, sociology
    • Education for training responsible citizens and protection against manipulation
    • The formation of critical spirit, a protection tool against misinformation
    • The effective integration of artificial intelligence in education, based on humanistic values

    ANTHROPOLOGY

    SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

    • Kinship in the Age of Artificial Families: Rethinking Social Bonds and Identity in Technocultures
    • Ritual and Resistance: The Anthropology of Protest, Performance, and Power

    ANTHROPOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

    • Emotions Across Cultures: An Anthropological Psychology of Feeling, Suffering, and Healing
    • Altered States and Cultural Minds: Trance, Possession, and the Neuropolitics of Consciousness

    ANTHROPOLOGY OF EDUCATION

    • Learning as Enculturation: An Ethnographic View on Schools as Cultural Fields
    • Orality, Memory, and Learning: Traditional Knowledge Systems in Modern Curricula

    INTERDISCIPLINARY (Education, Psychology, Anthropology)

    • The Child as Cultural Construct: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Development and Socialization
    • Shame, Discipline, and the Self: Cross-Cultural Psychology of Moral Development in Educational Settings

    CRITICAL AND FUTURE-ORIENTED

    • Anthropology in the Anthropocene: Reimagining Human-Nature Relationships through Education
    • Digital Ethnographies and the Post-Human Learner: Identity, Agency, and Belonging in Virtual Classrooms