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The pedagogical concept of Friedrich Fröbel (1782 – 1852) was the first concept of institutional early childhood education. This has left a significant mark on the history of institutional early and preschool education on a global scale. Friedrich Fröbel developed his pedagogical concept over an extended period. He thoroughly explained the fundamental principles and approaches …

Alongside family, preschool institutions present the most important factor of preschool children’s growth and development. They are places where children live, grow, learn and play. The preschool institution’s curriculum has to be flexible, open, adjusted to children’s needs and abilities, and founded on creativity. Children’s creativity can be fostered and developed through all activities in …

Boarding school is a place of students’ mental, physical, emotional, physical and social growth. Educational group is a place where social relations, tolerance, concern, dialogue, respect, and appreciation of others’ opinion develop. Sociometric survey, in the Boarding school Novi Zagreb, has been conducted aiming to find out students’ status within educational group, and to analyze …

Professional ethics is an area in which teachers do not feel confident. It is necessary to develop the status of the teacher profession in the society, which cannot be done without strengthening the ethics. Formal education on professional ethics does not exist, but its fragments can be interpreted in terms of the learning outcomes and …

Inclusion implies an open education system, respecting personality and diversity of the other, his ethnic and cultural background, willingness to cooperate, active doing for the benefit of another and passing appropriate judgments and decisions. In order to achieve the mentioned approach, educational institutions should create organizational assumptions that are based on the perception of the …

Participation in technological society requires a deep and critical understanding of technology and of its impact on each individual, environment and society. Achieving technological literacy has become an important imperative of national policies. Hence, the role of education along with adequate teachers’ training have become vital. Although in recent years research in technology education has …

Observation and monitoring of children is the first step in transforming the educational practice to achieve the actual quality. The actual quality is defined as the quality of the process created by reconstructing and co-constructing in the context (Pirard, 2011). In addition to providing the important insights into the child’s development and behavior, observation allows …

Competences are inevitable topic in discussions about contemporary education. Competence research and development should improve quality of work in educational institutions. Boarding schools are considered to be educational institutions. It is expected that boarding schools educators complete variety of tasks, hence they need both administrative and educational competences. In this paper, we focus on the …

It is necessary for an educator to comprehend the challenges that our youths face in today’s culture so that he/she could choose the right method. For that reason the paper describes the current state of today’s society before analyzing the lives of adolescents. The importance of educational system and free time is obvious from the …

The author of this text deals with the issue of recognizing the needs of the kindergarten children. The emphasis is laid on the organization of activities and spatial disposition, regarding the daily break routine within a mixed-type group. The author particularly emphasizes the necessity of systematic planning, discusses the problems encountered by teachers in introducing …