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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 …

Anatomija kriminalističke serije: antijunakinje i stereotipi (Anatomy of the crime series: anti-heroines and stereotipes)

This book examines the role and significance of anti-heroines, alongside a critical exploration of the rejection of traditional female stereotypes, with a particular focus on Italian crime series. It aims to contribute to the study of gender roles and the representation of women in popular culture, challenging stereotypes through an analysis of media and socio-cultural …

Puca niz nidarca (Buttons down the bosom)

The monograph is primarily based on a motif-thematic analysis of relevant oral literary material and on the author’s fieldwork, which draws extensively on ethnological and ethnographic research. The women of the Dalmatian Hinterland have never been the subject of a comprehensive scholarly study. Both academic and public discourse have long been dominated by the image …

Kršćanstvo i duh postmoderne: Ponovno otkriće ethosa (Christianity and the Spirit of Postmodernity: The Rediscovery of Ethos)

The book Christianity and the Spirit of Postmodernity: The Rediscovery of Ethos examines the manifestations of Christian ethos in subjective religious experiences within postmodern society. Drawing on a phenomenological-soci ological perspective, the author analyses the relationship between religion, cul ture, and contemporary social transformations, while exploring the conditions under which experiences of the sacred, personal …

Karaula, Ničija zemlja i Parada: Filmski spektakli, autokolonijalni diskurz i njegov humoristični efekt

Ovaj rad analizira odnos između centra i margine u zapadnom civilizacijskom kontekstu, s posebnim naglaskom na Balkan kao primjer margine, koristeći postkolonijalnu teoriju za analizu filmske prezentacije identitetskih konstrukcija. Analiza je usredotočena na koncept autokolonijalizma kao procesa u kojem margina prihvaća i potvrđuje nametnuti identitet, uzimajući kao primjer tri regionalno uspješna filma: Karaula, Ničija zemlja …

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 …

Upbringing for Personal and Social Dimensions of Christian Values

This conceptual-theoretical paper discusses social and contextual aspects of personal and social dimensions of Christian values. The paper discusses historical and social changes stressing the “removing“ of the ideological shell within the structure of personal and social dimensions of Christian values and disregarding the ideological concept of contemporary modernism. This approach to personal and social …

Chinese American Experience and “The Melting Pot”

The history of the United States is unmistakably the history of immigrants, and the make-up of American society is living proof of the immigration history of this country. With diverse ethnic groups expanding and becoming more numerous and better represented it is obvious that their literature waits to be fully discovered and appreciated. The aim …

The Inscription of Femininity in the Popular/Fantastic/Political Texture of Observation – On the Prose of Dubravka Ugrešić

In this paper we research the layers of the inscription of femininity in the popular, fantastic and political prose of Dubravka Ugrešić. The relationship of the essentialist and/or constructivist positions of observing the subject/text/body is decoded, reinterpreted and commented upon. Gender positioning and the shaping of a slippery identity is followed and interpreted by referring …