{"title":"Education as a value in school culture","authors":"J. Miljković, J. Grujić","doi":"10.5937/NASVAS1901021M","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/NASVAS1901021M","url":null,"abstract":"All activities, including education, are underpinned by values. Since its beginnings, education has promoted various values, and at the same time was itself perceived as a value, which is a prerequisite for performing its social function. The crisis of contemporary civilization makes it essentially important for school as an educational institution, and for teachers as its key actors, to demonstrate unequivocally by personal example that they perceive education as a value, not only declaratively but also through their professional activities. The current study aimed to explore teachers' perceptions of education as a value in school culture, specifically, their perceptions of education as a mechanism for promoting employees within an organization and their perceptions of measures and procedures in the organization aimed at facilitating employees' education. Our findings suggest that education is not regarded as an organizational value within the culture of the schools included in our study","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71016634","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}
Dragan Partalo, Margareta Skopljak, Tatjana V. Mihajlović
{"title":"Stimulating critical thinking in higher education","authors":"Dragan Partalo, Margareta Skopljak, Tatjana V. Mihajlović","doi":"10.5937/nasvas1902231p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas1902231p","url":null,"abstract":"Critical thinking as an ideal of higher education is particularly important in the education of prospective teachers, who are expected to be critical thinkers capable of teaching others to think critically. Critical thinking is a complex and multidimensional concept encompassing a broad range of abilities and dispositions. Different approaches to critical thinking instruction are rooted in different understandings of the concept. Authors tend to debate the relative merits of three approaches: a separate module aimed at developing general critical thinking abilities, critical thinking instruction integrated into existing courses, or a combination of the two. A Likert-type scale was used to elicit the attitudes to the promotion of critical thinking in education of a sample of 539 pedagogy and education students of the University of Banja Luka. Factor analysis identified four ways of stimulating critical thinking in higher education: meaningful learning, thought-provoking questions, exploratory teaching and learning strategies, and stimulating practice. The results indicate that most students believe critical thinking is best promoted through meaningful learning in the classroom, while exploratory teaching and learning strategies are least cited. Differences were identified between students of different study programs and different years of study. The research findings indicate that there is a need for designing new models of critical thinking stimulation while taking into account different study programs, years of study and students' needs in terms of their future careers in education.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"190 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71017142","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}
S. Golubović, Nevena Ječmenica, Nadica Jovanović-Simić, Mirjana Petrović-Lazić
{"title":"The articulation abilities and phonological awareness of five- to seven-year-olds","authors":"S. Golubović, Nevena Ječmenica, Nadica Jovanović-Simić, Mirjana Petrović-Lazić","doi":"10.5937/nasvas1902265g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas1902265g","url":null,"abstract":"The development of the child's speech sound articulation ability and phonological awareness goes through different stages during the child's preschool years. The aim of our research was to determine the articulation abilities and phonological awareness level in children with typical development. Our sample comprised 195 children aged five to seven. Speech sound articulation abilities and phonological awareness were assessed by means of the Global Test of Articulation and the FONT Phonological Awareness Test. The research results indicate that, depending on age, 42% to 78.3% of children are able to articulate clearly all 30 sounds of the Serbian language. An analysis of the Phonological Awareness Test results shows children performed best in the following tasks: syllable blending (99.1%), syllable segmentation (85%) and initial phoneme identification (86.1%), while they were least successful in the task of initial phoneme deletion (48.8%). Results have shown that children's success in most tasks within the framework of the elements of phonological awareness assessed - such as initial phoneme identification, rhyme recognition, phoneme segmentation, final phoneme identification, initial phoneme deletion and phoneme substitution (initial phoneme) - increases with children's age. The development of final phoneme identification, initial phoneme deletion and phoneme substitution (initial phoneme) abilities continues after children start school, as shown by data on the success rate among seven-year-olds. In view of the fact that phonological awareness plays an important role in the development and acquisition of reading ability, when working with preschool-age children particular attention should be devoted to tasks that stimulate the development of phonological awareness.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71017322","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 publishing activities of the Pedagogical Society of Serbia","authors":"Aleksandra Ilić-Rajković","doi":"10.5937/nasvas1903299i","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas1903299i","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71017593","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 role of school supervision in the constitution of the primary school system in Serbia in the first half of the 19th century","authors":"Nataša Vujisić-Živković","doi":"10.5937/nasvas1903347v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas1903347v","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71017808","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 importance of mother tongue maintenance in international schools","authors":"Olja Milosevic","doi":"10.5937/nasvas1902251m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas1902251m","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing mobility of people implies an increasing number of students who start mastering two or more languages. A number of educational institutions provide schooling for different populations of migrant children. International schools are one type of these providers. In order to assist students coming from various language backgrounds, international schools that provide for migrant students have one language of instruction that is, in most cases, different from the language of the host country and from the mother tongues of many students in the school. In that environment, students begin to acquire a second language as soon as they enter an international school, and sadly, their mother tongue development tends to be neglected. Students who follow an international curriculum learn at least two languages, but the lack of sufficient knowledge of their mother tongue impacts their development of literacy and their academic achievement in general. This paper consists of two parts. The first part gives the theoretical implications for the importance of mother tongue maintenance. The second part presents findings from a small-scale study conducted in one international school where the language of instruction is English. The study was carried out with students who acquire two or more languages simultaneously. It deals with the language development of several students in that school and their perspectives on the importance of the mother tongue and the role of English in their education. The findings indicate that students whose mother tongue is maintained seem to have better success in school.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71017217","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 pedagogical implications of the socially relevant university","authors":"Radovan Grandić, M. Bosanac","doi":"10.5937/nasvas1902215g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas1902215g","url":null,"abstract":"From the founding of the first universities in the Middle Ages to the modern university in the period of globalization, universities have been created according to the prevailing social, cultural, economic and political conditions.Contemporary universities are faced with numerous demands from the external environment which expects social problems to be solved through education. In this context goals of education are also subject to constant redefinition and alignment with the needs of new social realities. The aim of the paper is to examine the implications of a socially relevant university from the perspective of two approaches: (a) concerns about the future of the university, the very idea of the university itself, and the reduction of the role of universities as critics of society; (b) the importance and necessity of opening a university to the community in order to contribute to society. Both approaches have been permeated within the analytical approach to the challenges facing the modern university, as well as within the study of the social relevance of the university which is linked to the third mission of the university. We then present the current initiatives that advocate the opening of universities towards the environment, the project Institutional Framework for the Development of the Third Mission of the University, as well as the Strategy for the Development of Education in the Republic of Serbia until 2020. Through elaboration of the relevant literature, we also present the pedagogical implications of a socially relevant university. In conclusion, we emphasize that the pluralism of analytical and critical approaches is the only adequate way to consider the relation of the university and its environment as a whole.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71017421","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 pedagogical implications of the commercialization of children's playgrounds in urban environments","authors":"M. Malović","doi":"10.5937/NASVAS1901051M","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/NASVAS1901051M","url":null,"abstract":"This paper starts from the premise that play spaces (playgrounds and playrooms) specially designed for children are shaped by social and cultural factors, reflecting society's attitudes to childhood and a particular perception of the child, and that moreover, these spaces in themselves, with their physical, symbolic, social and discursive dimensions, help shape the conditions and characteristics of children's growing up, their identities and participation in the community. In the context of contemporary urban environments, the design of children's play spaces is largely influenced by economic, commercial, urban planning and architectural considerations, resulting in children growing up within a culture that can be defined as contemporary, urban, market-mediated culture. Drawing on postmodern theories - the socio-cultural theory of learning and development, new theories of childhood, and poststructuralism - we offer a critical examination of the pedagogical implications of the commercialization of children's playgrounds in urban environments.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71016796","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 development of inclusive school practice: Characteristics and requirements","authors":"Emina Hebib, Radovan Antonijević, Marija Ratković","doi":"10.5937/nasvas1903315h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas1903315h","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71017512","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":"Continuing professional development of teachers: Interplay of the school management, school climate, motivation and incentives","authors":"Kristinka Ovesni, Emina Hebib, Vera Ž. Radović","doi":"10.5937/nasvas1902159o","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nasvas1902159o","url":null,"abstract":"This study is aimed to explore interconnections of incentives and motivation that instigate and affect teachers to participate in programs for continuing professional development of teachers (CPDT) with organizational characteristics (effective school management and supportive school climate) that support teachers' participation in the CPDT programs, and their satisfaction with these programs. The sample of teachers from 92 primary schools in Serbia (N=1162) were included. The data were collected by three instruments that consisted of 93 items in total, that had to measure perception of: supportiveness of the school management, the school climate, and the different incentives and motives. The collected data were subjected to a few common (frequencies, std. deviation, means, etc.) and more complex statistical proceedings (exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation model analysis). The results indicate complex interplay of motivation and incentives with perceived school management and perceived school climate, with emphasis on requirement for detailed planning, development and distribution of CPDT programs that are useful for everyday activities of teachers, for their self-realization and for improvement of their performance, while in this process special attention should be given to development of effective school management and school climate conductive for teacher's continuing professional development.","PeriodicalId":31565,"journal":{"name":"Nastava i Vaspitanje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71017152","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}