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The research highlighted the need to equalize the importance attached to the stimulating environment in indoor and outdoor spaces and the way in which educators organize these spaces, plan activities and incentives in them, and strengthen the educators’ competences for organizing and planning outdoor stays. Through direct insight into the practice, it became evident that …

The aim of this paper is to assess the importance of one parenting program for parents, who were the participants of the research. The program was organized through a model of action research, with the aim of empowering parents to encourage early childhood learning and development in a home environment. Data collection was implemented over …

Art first appeared in social research during the mid 20th century, but it was used only to inspire researchers to identify the purpose and objects of their studies. Research methodologies dedicated to the arts were first developed in the 1990s, and they allowed art researchers to investigate phenomena that cannot be quantified, such as the …

Heritage represents an inexhaustible source of awareness of own and other people’s identities and understanding of the diversity and personal responsibility in the context of sustainable development. It is therefore an important theme in early and pre-school education, which, along with the family, is the starting point in the process of lifelong learning and the …

Communication between the teacher and children is a complex and very subtle intersubjective form of pedagogical process. The span of intervention levels of the teacher can range from leading and instructing, through guiding and moderating to not expressing interest in child’s actions. Its directionality, the level of guidance, reciprocity and dynamics implicitly reveal the value …

The study addresses different disadvantages of classic researches in upbringing and education, which are based on the positivist and post positivist paradigm. Such deficiencies among others include their fragmented and decontextualized nature, irrelevancy of research results in professional live of practitioners, etc. The most important objection to classic researches is the problem of transfer of …

As opposed to traditional views on educational institutions as objects on which changes are externally imposed by impartial experts, nowadays schools are considered to be the centers of changes, because they can and should be changed and improved only by its members who are familiar with them. In that process of quality improvement pedagogues have …