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Contemporary primary school curriculum

The paper discusses a changing concept of literacy, based on the contemporary social and technological development, and the status of new literacy in the primary school curriculum. Literacy has always served a certain social purpose and nowadays it enables global communication. Apart from being a means of achieving goals of a society, its value is …

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 …

What is wrong with constructivist teaching? Elaboration, recapitulation and synthesis of theoretical and historical controversies

The aim of the study is to use a historical and theoretical-comparative methodological approach to elaborate and recapitulate the phenomenon, history, theoretical, methodological and didactic characteristics as well as certain controversies of constructivism in education. The emphasis will be placed on observing the constructivist teaching in the discourse of the movements of reform pedagogy from …

Media Habits and Attitudes of Students About the Possibilities of Applying Mobile Learning in Foreign Language Teaching

The paper analyses innovative learning and teaching through mobile learning on a sample of 96 adolescents. A 3-part questionnaire consisted of sociodemographic data, attitudes about mobile learning and media activities and the use of social networks. The research was done in 2019 with vocational school students. 15.1% of them use applications for learning English, while …

Education Philosophies – The Key to Understanding the Role of Teachers’ Beliefs in Educational Practice

Suvremena je paradigma u pedagogiji usmjerena na holistički razvoj pojedinaca kurikulnim pristupom s naglaskom na ishode učenja i poučavanja. Naglašava se aktivna uloga učenika u nastavi, ali i važnost uloge nastavnika kao osobe koja oblikuje nastavno okruženje i organizira nastavni proces. Odgojno­obrazovne filozofije nastavnikā i uvjerenja koja su im u pozadini uvelike utječu na njihovu …

Quality of Communication Between Students and Teachers During Curricular and Extracurricular Activities

Communication is the basic social process in which information is provided and received, but it is also a process that allows interaction between individuals and groups, students and teachers, students and students, teachers and students. Most of interpersonal relations are conducted through interpersonal communication and the success of the educational process itself depends on the …

Kitsch in Teaching Art in Primary School

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 …

Project evaluation “classroom of the future”

In terms of increasing computerization of society, where knowledge is becoming a basic production resource, it is expected that the school as an educational institution takes a leading role in these changes. The education system must be responsive and adaptive to become a generator of change and constant companion of a high quality school work …

Is a systematic approach to teaching active listening skills necessary?

The paper aims at exploring the possibilities for enhancing the active listening skill in educational environment. It states the importance of social skills, especially communicative skills, for the development of a positive school culture. Croatian National Curricular Framework recognises listening as a receptive communicative skill. The sensory activity of listening remains passive if it is …