Anastasija Mamutović, Zorica Stanisavljević-Petrović, Marija Marković
{"title":"Computer games in preschool education: Potential risks from the teachers' perspective","authors":"Anastasija Mamutović, Zorica Stanisavljević-Petrović, Marija Marković","doi":"10.5937/NASVAS2101037M","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/NASVAS2101037M","url":null,"abstract":"Today's society is characterized by the expansion of scientific and technological development, leading to changes in the conception of educational work at all levels of education. The integration of digital technology is aimed at modernizing the education system. In practice, however, even the best designed media tools can quite often prove to have numerous drawbacks. Consequently, there is a need for empirical research into the educational value of digital learning tools. In view of the fact that, apart from parents, preschool teachers are the most important mediators between children and contemporary ICT devices, the aim of our study was to explore preschool teachers' perceptions of the risks and potential negative influences of computer games on children's development, behavior and learning. Teachers' attitudes were analyzed in relation to their educational level, place of work, age, and years of service, in order to identify tendencies linked to changes in the research sample structure. A quantitative approach to result analysis was employed, with a tabular and graphical presentation of the obtained data. Research results suggest teachers believe that excessive use of computer games at preschool level is accompanied by addiction, aggressive thoughts, feelings and insensitivity to scenes of violence in the real world. In contrast, teachers believe that social isolation, passivity, a decline in children's creativity and adverse effects on their physical health are not an inevitable consequence of the excessive use of computer games. As regards statistically significant differences in teachers' attitudes, the results indicate that an increase in the number of years of service and educational level is linked to increased perceptions of the drawbacks relative to the benefits of using computer games. Teachers' place of work is not statistically significant in determining their attitudes to the potential risks of using computer games.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"70 1","pages":"37-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71018939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use of oral history in researching education in Serbia on the eve of World War II","authors":"Nataša Vujisić-Živković","doi":"10.5937/nasvas2102205v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas2102205v","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of a study carried out with pedagogy students in the academic year 2013-14. The subject of the study was education in Serbia on the eve of World War II from the perspective of its immediate participants, i.e. persons who were students at the time. The method of oral history was used, with students conducting structured interviews, which we analyzed and interpreted. The interviewees were aged between 75 and 89. The sample consisted of 12 women and 8 men, 13 from rural and 7 from urban environments. The aim of the study was to collect testimony about education in Serbia on the eve of World War II from immediate participants, those who were students at the time. The focus of the study was on the social dimension of education and on the pedagogical process in schools in that period. We conducted a narrative analysis of obtained data, sought to identify similarities and differences in schooling, particularly between children in urban and rural environments. The paper is intended to contribute to the picture of school life on the eve of World War II, to present the voices of \"those who have not been heard\" in the textbooks on the history of education, and thus shed additional light on this period of our educational past.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71019084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modernism suited to the (traditional and contemporary) doll and the child as its alter ego","authors":"T. Marković","doi":"10.5937/nasvas2102177m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas2102177m","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks at the doll through the uneasy relationship between \"tradition\" and \"contemporaneity\". The traditional doll, both as a concept and as an artefact, belongs to the real world. It is defined as an object, an immobile figure controlled by a child. The traditional doll has no pretensions to be alive, and thus bears little resemblance to a human being. It is simple, unobtrusive, direct, mysterious, dependent on the child that gives it life during play. It has two fundamental virtues: silence, which is at the same time its most important means of communication, and submissiveness, which is based on fellowship and which implies the leaving of space to the \"other\", more precisely, to the child who is in fact \"the first\" and whom the doll \"follows\". Contemporary dolls can be material and non-material. Material dolls are most commonly made of inorganic materials, while non-material dolls are made of shadows, reflections, projections of symbolic form. Both have convincing human characteristics that they achieve thanks to various programs and \"mechanisms\". Contemporary dolls are seductive, talkative and ready to build \"parasocial\" and \"postbiological\" relationships in the digital world. Their supreme values are entertainment, noise, surprise, saturation of the senses, few demands on the mind. They aspire to be \"first\", and \"demand\" that the child should be in \"second\" position. A comparative study of these two dolls through a circle of ontological questions situated within the animate-inanimate opposition contributes to a better understanding of the status of the traditional/contemporary doll, the boundaries between man/the child and the doll, and relationships between people. The triumph of contemporary dolls threatens the status and the continued existence of the traditional doll. Due to the \"humanization\" of dolls and the \"dollization\" of people, the boundaries between people and dolls have been blurred. Increased intimacy with contemporary dolls leads to changes in social patterns based on greater distance between people.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71018922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jelena D. Stanisavljević, Kristina Savić, Jovana Karadžić-Stojanović, Miljana Zaharić, Ivan Stojšić
{"title":"Students' attitudes to e-learning in high school biology instruction","authors":"Jelena D. Stanisavljević, Kristina Savić, Jovana Karadžić-Stojanović, Miljana Zaharić, Ivan Stojšić","doi":"10.5937/nasvas2103333s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas2103333s","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a disruption in the regular process of teaching and learning. The inclusion of electronic learning (e-learning) is a measure introduced in order to preserve continuity in school education. E-learning, however, was introduced in response to the state of emergency and the pandemic and not as a pre-planned and well-prepared innovation, thus suggesting the need to research students' attitudes towards the implementation of e-learning in high school biology instruction. 255 students of two Belgrade high schools (the Zemun High School and the Fifth Belgrade High School), in which e-learning was implemented, took part in the study. Processing of the data obtained by means of a questionnaire yielded results indicating that students on the whole have a neutral attitude to e-learning and do not want it to become their sole model of learning. Moreover, they are aware only of some of the benefits provided by e-learning. The results show that there are no statistically significant differences between the attitudes of male and female students to e-learning. Similarly, students' grade, their end-of-semester grade in biology, and rating of how interesting instructional content is, do not affect their attitudes to e-learning. Based on the results, in view of the current situation in terms of health security and the need to optimize the instruction process, further continued training of teachers and students in e-learning and instruction is being planned, as well as the provision of appropriate material and other resources for this purpose.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71019315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of the level of parental involvement and parental demands on students' attitudes to learning","authors":"R. Perućica, Olivera Kalajdžić","doi":"10.5937/NASVAS2101069P","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/NASVAS2101069P","url":null,"abstract":"The attitudes that parents have towards learning are very significant for the forming of staudents' attitudes towards learning. The importance of this study lies in uncovering the extent to which students' own attitudes to learning depend on the level of parental involvement and parental demands, and the extent to which the insights obtained can be used as the basis for determining the manner in which parents should be engaged in and devote attention to their children's learning. In this paper, students' attitudes to learning were observed through two variables, namely students' learning goal orientation and their approaches to learning. The research sample consisted of 802 seventh-, eighthand ninth-grade primary school students. We started from the assumption that certain differences exist among the given variables. For the purposes of the study we used an instrument for measuring students' approach to learning, an instrument for measuring learning goal orientations and an instrument for measuring the level of demands and the level of support in the family environment. The reliability of the instruments was verified through Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The data obtained indicate that there is a statistically significant difference in learning goal orientations and approaches to learning among students depending on the level of parental demands and the level of parental involvement. Students whose parents provide high levels of support are more likely to have mastery goal orientation and an in-depth approach to learning, regardless of the level of demands. The pedagogical recommendation that can be made based on the results is that parents should provide their children with a high level of support for learning so that they can achieve the best possible results.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"70 1","pages":"69-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71018755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dilemmas in studying cultural capital in children","authors":"Mladen Radulović","doi":"10.5937/nasvas2001007r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas2001007r","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"69 1","pages":"7-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71017672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violeta Orlović-Lovren, Aleksandra P. Pejatović, Neda Čairović
{"title":"The quality of performance of educational institutions and the professional development of school staff: From institution standards to staff needs","authors":"Violeta Orlović-Lovren, Aleksandra P. Pejatović, Neda Čairović","doi":"10.5937/nasvas2002133o","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas2002133o","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks at the extent to which the range of accredited programs of professional development for educators corresponds to educators' needs for professional development. The theoretical starting point for the study presented in the paper is the positioning of the professional development of educators within the complex construct and context of professional development, viewed as a lifelong process, also relying on the concept of educational needs arising from the discrepancies between the existing state and the desired (according to the standards) state. Data on the educational needs of potential users of accredited programs were obtained by analyzing the results of external evaluations of school performance, where lower levels of standard realization (levels one and two) were seen as indicators of discrepancies between the actual situation in a school and the desired level of school performance i.e. the level prescribed by standards. The identified discrepancies were treated as a space in which educational needs arise, the meeting of which might lead to an improvement in the performance of the schools that formed part of the sample. A qualitative study was carried out, with the aim of examining to what extent the accredited professional development programs on offer correspond to the educational needs of teaching staff. The programs offered were analyzed using the method of sequential analysis, with the following sequences selected: program name, program topic, general and specific program aims, and program target groups. The results of the analysis suggest that professional development programs only partially correspond to the needs identified through the analysis of external evaluation, both at the topic level and in terms of the needs of specific target groups. The paper concludes with a recommendation of possible directions for improving the system of teacher professional development in Serbia.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"69 1","pages":"133-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71018111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fourth-grade students' achievement in solving arithmetic problems depending on the context of the problems","authors":"Irena Vasojević","doi":"10.5937/nasvas2001085v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas2001085v","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"69 1","pages":"85-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71017719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E-learning in higher education from the perspective of Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy","authors":"L. Nikolić","doi":"10.5937/nasvas2001039n","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas2001039n","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"69 1","pages":"39-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71017880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teachers' implicit beliefs about (mathematical) intelligence","authors":"Luna Radević, I. Jerkovic, Ilija Milovanović","doi":"10.5937/nasvas2002151r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas2002151r","url":null,"abstract":"Implicit theories of intelligence are individual beliefs about the nature of intelligence, which are used on a daily basis as part of self-assessment and assessment of others, and are a significant factor shaping attitudes and behaviors. Research to date suggests that teachers can influence their students' beliefs about intelligence, which in turn affect motivation and achievement. According to Dweck's model, implicit theories of intelligence are a bipolar construct, with two theories at its extremes - the entity theory, which stresses the immutability of intelligence, and the incremental theory, which holds that intelligence can be improved through training and learning. Recent research, however, indicates that these two theories represent distinct, uncorrelated dimensions. The aim of this study was to carry out a psychometric evaluation of the Implicit Theories of Intelligence Scale (ITIS) and the Mathematics-Oriented Implicit Theory of Intelligence Scale (MOITIS). 228 primary and secondary school teachers in Serbia (87.7% female; average age 42.79 years) took part in the study. The results of factor analysis suggest the existence of two factors on both scales: incremental theory and entity theory. Further analysis showed that both factors of the ITIS and MOITIS scales have satisfactory psychometric properties. Significant differences were detected between primary and secondary school teachers on the ITIS scale. More specifically, among teachers of science subjects, mathematics and medical subjects the attitude that intelligence is a fixed trait is more pronounced than among teachers of the arts, humanities and social sciences.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"69 1","pages":"151-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71018185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}