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The paper addresses the role of marketing in the management of upbringing and education institution. We analyzed the characteristics of upbringing and education seen as a public good as well as the characteristics of marketing seen as business philosophy and business function. Furthermore, the paper explains the compatibility of marketing and education analyzing the specifics …

Near the end of the winter semester of the school year 2018/2019 the attitudes of students of graduate studies at Faculty of Science (PMF), edu-cational studies at Faculty of Science, Department of Physics (PMF-F) and Faculty of Education (UF), Čakovec Department (N=151) were analysed, re-garding the core values of the National Curriculum Framework (NOK) and …

School culture is one of the indicators of quality and organizational effectiveness of the school, which includes values, norms, beliefs, rituals and school traditions. The quality of school culture affects the quality of the overall way of life in school. The aim of this paper is to present the results of the author’s available empirical …

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 …

Modern approaches and paradigms of education, especially in the so -called post-conventional time, conceive a child as an active being who can and should participate in his/her own education and take responsibility for his/her behavior (Koller-Trbovic and Žižak, 2005; Pećnik, 2008; Markovinović, 2010; Kušević, 2010). Although the idea of children’s participation and taking into account …

The aim of this empirical research was to examine the possibility of predicting the attitudes of Croatian adolescents toward cultural diversity in the Croatian society based on selected socio demographic variables and contacts with members of other nations. The survey covered 1471 secondary school pupils from all over the Republic of Croatia. By means of …

Mobbing, a phenomenon of psychological and moral abuse of employees, is one of the potential sources of stress in the workplace. The first research on mobbing, conducted by a prominent German psychologist Heinz Leymann in Sweden in the nineties of the past century, showed its significant presence in schools (14.1%) and other educational institutions. This …

The fi rst impression of school is the key of a child’s further succes in her/his schooling so we can consider the preparation and the fi rst day of school to be one of the most important moments in a lifelong education. This could be the reason why the fi rst days of school are …

The Council of Ministers of the European Union in its Resolution defined career guidance as a set of activities that enables individuals to identify their capabilities, competencies and interests at different times of life in order to make decisions about education, training, and to be able to manage their professional career. Most of the activities …

The aim of this paper was to examine teachers’ attitudes towards school with reference to their job satisfaction. The short review of the researches that dealt with this problem has been introduced. The paper also provides a presentation of the poll that included 58 teachers of three primary schools from the Makarska coast. The results …