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Based on unpublished archive material and recent literature, the author has investigated the founding and operation of the Croatian Cultural Society Napredak from Sarajevo in Split. Starting in 1922, when the Split branch was founded, and despite the political pressures in monarchial Yugoslavia, many of its program goals were achieved. In its twelve-year existence (1928 …

The feeling of safety is a fundamental human need, but its absence leads toward the negative consequences in the psychological functioning and the academic success of the students. The goal of this research was to examine the role of peer violence (classical and electronic) in order to explain student’s worry for personal safety which complicates …

Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je ispitati reakcije učenika nižih razreda osnovne škole na prikazana likovna djela suvremenog kiparstva, u ovom slučaju poznatog hrvatskog kipara Ivana Meštrovića. Istraživanje je provedeno na području Splitsko-dalmatinske županije i obuhvatilo je 300 učenika osnovnih škola od 1. do 4. razreda, od toga 151 dječaka i 149 djevojčica. Učenicima su pokazana …

The main research problem in this graduation thesis is the amount of teacher’s knowledge of term kitsch in visual art. The research is based on 1 – 4 grades of elementary school. This graduation work is divided into two parts. The first part is based on generally meaning of term kitsch, on its beginning and …

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 …

Reading enriches an individual’s personality and experience. The importance of reading is a subject of the scientific interest. From the 1980’s, the researches based on reading begin to include sociological concepts. The results show that today’s generations of young people read less than their predecessors. This paper examines a social context of reading and book, …

Croatia has in all fields of culture and art shared cultural history with other Central European countries. Although close to us, and in some segments similar, Central European countries still have their own history and cultural heritage including traditional music. This work shows the traditional music of Central European countries and analyzes the program of …

Teaching Visual Arts, as outlined in the curriculum of art education, largely affects the development of children’s cognitive and motor skills. It encourages pupils’ divergent thinking and develops abstract and critical thinking. Art teaching assumes various aspects of visual art education as the understanding of art, visual abilities and skills, cognition of artworks and visualart …

Primary school is compulsory educational institution and a significant instance of socialization, in which along with the regular teaching as a fundamental activity, are also realized other forms of educational activities such as extracurricular activities. Paper provides an insight into involvement of primary school pupils in extracurricular and outside of school activities as a structured …

School as a house of joy, in which learning is a challenge and merriment has a transformational strength, which is built and developed, i.e. which occurs on site. Its stronghold is visible in the school’s mission and vision, its positive culture and interpersonal relations. It is merry and playful, spiritual and fun, full of hope …