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Learning is an important process in the intellectual maturation and socialization of a person. It is determined by numerous components, the most important being cognition, motivation and emotions. As modern teaching requires an active role of students in the learning process, a key element for successful learning is quality teaching. Teachers’ main challenge is how …

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 …

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 …

The Visual Arts represent specific spiritual and material activities of people, a special kind of understanding and communication between people, which creates a connection between the individual and the social, the material and the spiritual, and transfers the knowledge and experience of mankind in a special way. The ennobling power of art greatly contributes to …

School culture is defined as a relatively permanent quality of school environment which influences the behavior of its members, thus determining the overall way of life of school (Domović, 2004). Within that culture, didactic culture, as the area in which school culture is manifested, fi nds its own terrain by studying all that comes into …

The aim of this paper is the analysis of the legal, theoretical and practical guidelines that describe the role of a school pedagogue in the formation of the studentcentred curriculum. By analysing and comparing primary goals and tasks that some legal documents and selected authors point out, the contribution and the participation of student-directed pedagogues …

Even though today computers are present in all primary schools, the computer technology in most schools is outdated, as well as the softwares they use.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 …

In complex and intertwined relations within a school students and their teachers, although on different levels, have an influence on the development of their classroom atmosphere and on their own intercultural relations. They create a condition for a pleasant and supporting classroom atmosphere on the basis of students’ involvement in their homeroom, following the agreed …

This paper will present a historic analysis of the pedagogic literature whereby the status of students in the educational process is monitored. The paper shows different manifestations of the student’s status within the educational process viewed through the relations of various interpersonal relations: teacher-student, student-student, or student-group of students, etc. The student, in those relations, …

Our school’s reality is characterized with a more widespread occurrence of sudents’ deliberate class skipping. There are many outlooks on this phenomenon, but a few solutions. Everyday indicators warn about the complexity of this problem which demands an answer. Educators’ active and conscious participation, including the necessary changes in their behavior, is required in order …