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Teacher perceptions of principal support

Principal, as the manager and expert leader of a school, performs out numerous tasks to ensure quality and harmonious operations within the school. The principal has the leading role in creating a positive and encouraging environment for the implementation of the teaching process. One of the conditions needed to create such an environment is providing …

Educators’ and teachers’ perception of children’s transition from kindergarten to school according to the child-centered competences for early childhood education and care (CCECC) conceptual framework

The importance of early childhood education and care can be seen in the competences of six-month-old to school-age children, making it necessary to continuously establish connections between the two education systems. A good relationship between kindergarten and schoolteachers results in benefits that empower the child from an emotional, cognitive, and social perspective. In this way, …

Learner Strategies and the Perception of Cross-Linguistic Interaction in Young L3 Learners: An Empirical Study in Primary School FLT

Founded on psycholinguistic insights into the interaction between the language systems of multilinguals and the key role that language learning awareness carries in the development of L3 students’ multilingual systems, the paper deals with the use of learner strategies and the perception of cross-linguistic interaction. The results of the empirical research carried out on an …

Attending cultural events and aquiring cultural capital in the context of developing music competencies of future teachers for teaching music culture in lower grades

As part of the Music Culture course, teacher education students at the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Zagreb are obliged to attend classical and jazz music concerts organized by the faculty as a part of the Music Scene of the Faculty of Teacher Education.The paper aims to examine the attitudes and opinions …

Chess as an extracurricular activity

Extracurricular activities as a variety of organizational forms of students gathering in free extracurricular time at elementary school have predominantly cultural, artistic, sporting, technical, recreational or scientific character (Cindrić, 1992). Through them, students meet their needs and develop the culture of using their leisure time. Thanks to its pedagogic potential, chess is increasingly used as …

The Music of the World on CDds for Teaching Music and Intercultural Education

Glazba se stoljećima razvijala ispreplitanjem najrazličitijih kultura, što znači da je, u samoj svojoj biti, interkulturalna umjetnost. Danas je to zamjetno u daleko većoj mjeri. Protokom ljudi i informacija teško će nečija kulturalno „čista“ glazba, pa čak i tradicijska glazba, ostati imuna na utjecaje različitih stilova iz cijeloga svijeta. Stoga je, gledano s pedagoškog aspekta, …

School – where one grows, learns and acquires social experience

Students’ perceptions of school as a positive social environment and place of interactions were researched on a sample of 2661 seventh and eighth grade students in the Republic of Croatia (15 counties). The social environment and interactions scale was developed within the Project. For the purpose of this paper, 13 variables were used on a …

The relationship between classroom environment, self-efficacy, emotional competence and the school achievement of fifth and eighth-grade students

In the student-centred curriculum approach, apart from changes in the didactic-methodical plan of structuring the teaching process, in the form of the application of didactic strategies aimed at solving problems, student activity and collaborative learning, increased emphasis is placed on the importance of the quality of classroom atmosphere as a social dimension that contributes both …