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Interkulturalizam u kontekstu suvremenoga glazbenog obrazovanja (Interculturalism in the Context of Contemporary Music Education)

This monograph examines the concept of intercultural education, with particular emphasis on intercultural music education. In the opening chapter, the author defines the concepts of culture and identity. The following chapter addresses the issue of intercultural communicative competence, focusing on intercultural awareness, intercultural sensitivity, intercultural effectiveness, and intercultural attitudes. The third chapter is devoted to …

Hrvatsko-talijanske filološke studije u čast profesorici emeriti Ljerki Šimunković – Studi filologici croato-italiani in onore della professoressa emerita Ljerka Šimunković (Croatian–Italian Philological Studies in Honour of Professor Emerita Ljerka Šimunković) 

This monography is dedicated to Professor Emerita Ljerka Šimunković, PhD, founder and first Head of the Department of Italian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Split, and founder and long-serving President of the Croatian–Italian Cultural Association Dante Alighieri Split. It is the result of the long-standing collaboration between Croatian and …

Representation and Subversion in Croatian Alexander Romance

Reading the novel Hrvatska Aleksandrida (Croatian Alexander Romance) as a chivalric narrative structured around a historical figure, this paper aims at reinterpretation of it in the key of popular culture and looks into the politics of the representation of the protagonists-bearers of specific ideological values, acting both affirmatively and subversively within the imposed value system. …

Substructure of an intercultural curriculum. comparison of selected features of the Croatian culture among high school students and their teachers according to the Hofstede model

The data used in this paper were obtained in the course of a scientific-research project “Intercultural curriculum and education in the languages of minorities”, lead by prof. Neven Horvatić, PhD, in the 2007–2012 period. The basic elements that constitute the basic starting elements for the drafting of the Croatian national curriculum and its intercultural dimensions …

The importance and the role of humor in young people’s everyday lives

The complexity of the humor phenomenon/occurrence which is inherent to all socio-cultural environments within all periods, as well as intimacy issues, has determined the author’s interest for this subject. It resulted with the analysis of the role and the importance of humor in young people’s lives. Empirical research has covered 503 respondents in the city …