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Sexual education in schools

Although there are subjective and objective needs for a systematic sexual education, in our schools sexuality is taught mostly within the content of Science. During the last few years various health education programs offer information on sexuality, but they are not implemented in all schools. In practice informative and abstinence programs have been proved ineffective. …

Upbringing intervention in the lives of adolescents

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 use of computers in lower elementary teaching

Even though today computers are present in all primary schools, the computer technology in most schools is outdated, as well as the softwares they use. The starting point of this paper is the theoretical consideration of computer use in schools and at home. It argues the importance of computer and information literacy of all people …

The relationship between children’s social and intercultural competence

The goal of this research is learning to what extent do social skills, as dimensions of desirable and socially competent behavior, contain, explain and predict intercultural competence of elementary school students who attend 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade. (N = 593). Multidimensional criterion of children’s social competence was operationalized through 17 variables whose quality …