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TEACHING AND LEARNING
Branka Aleksendrić:
CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES TO CURRICULAR THEORY AND PRACTICE
Slađana Zuković, Ph.D.:
TEACHING RELIGION IN HIGH SCHOOL FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF STUDENTS AND PARENTS
Momčilo Bjelica, Ph.D., Dragica Ranković, M.A.:
COMPUTER PROGRAMMES FOR EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE IN MATHEMATICS
PROBLEMS OF EDUCATIONAL WORK
Jelisaveta Todorović, Ph.D., Ivana Kezunović, Snežana Stojiljković, Ph.D.:
THE ROLE OF FAMILY GATHERINGS IN THE FORMATION OF PERSONALITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS IN ADLOESCENTS
Snežana Vidanović, Ph.D., Vesna Anđelković, Ph.D.:
AGGRESSIVENESS, TENDENCY TO RISKY BEHAVIOUR AND ADOLESCENTS’ FAMILY STRUCTURE
Vesna Žunić-Pavlović, Ph.D., Miroslav Pavlović, Marina KovačevićLepojević:
ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS’ SOCIAL FUNCTIONING IN SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
Mirjana Japundža-Milisavljević, Ph.D.:
ACQUISITION OF ELEMENTARY ARITHMETICAL OPERATIONS IN CHILDREN WITH IMPAIRED INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
Branka Jablan, Ph.D., Dženana Radžo, M.A.:
QUALITY AND RATE OF DRAWING OF BLIND CHILDREN
TEACHING PERSONNEL
Aleksandra Anđelković, M.A.:
CAUSES OF EMERGENCE AND FORMS OF TEACHER-STUDENT CONFLICT SITUATION DEMONSTRATION
Jelena Pavlović, Milica Tošić-Rudić:
STUDENTS OPINIONS ON THE TEACHER’S FEATURES
Branka Aleksendrić
Filozofski fakultet Beograd
UDK-371.214
CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES TO CURRICULAR THEORY AND PRACTICE
The paper discusses five different approaches to curricular theory and prac tice: 1) curriculum that should be transmitted - within the frame of this approach curriculum is identified with the plan and programme imposed from the outside and the task is only to realize it in practice; 2) curriculum as a product - according to this view curriculum is seen as a programme of the activities of teachers and students dedicated to fulfilling the aims and outcomes of education. Compared to the former view, the focus of the educational process shifts from contents to outcomes; 3) curriculum as a process - here curriculum is treated as an active process, continuous interaction between teachers, students and knowledge. Within this approach attention is directed towards the learning process, and the student’s activities are in the foreground; 4) curriculum as practice - practice is in the centre of this approach. The emphasis is on continuous analyzing and researching educational practice through critical thinking in action; 5) curriculum in context - here curriculum is contextually shaped by social relations existent in school. It is a permanent social process that includes interactions between students, teachers, knowledge and the environment.
Keywords: curriculum, teaching and learning, position and role of the teacher and the student in the educational process.
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Slađana Zuković, Ph.D.
UDK-371.8 (37.018.2)
Filozofski fakultet Novi Sad
TEACHING RELIGION IN HIGH SCHOOL FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF STUDENTS AND PARENTS
The article presents the results of an empirical research aimed at determin ing the attitudes of high school students and their parents towards the academic subject Religion, as well as analyzing the perceivable effects of the realization of this school subject. The examination comprised a sample of 392 respondents from the territory of Novi Sad (263 students and their 129 parents). The results showed that the majority of the respondents have a positive attitude towards Religion and high expectations related to this subject. High expectations are related mainly to the educational dimension of the subject (moral and spiritual development of personality). Further, the results show that the majority of the respondents perceive positive effects of previous attendance to Religion classes and that these effects are related to moral and spiritual development in general, changes in behaviour and the development of their religious identity. Still, one fact should not be overlooked and that is that a considerable number of the students and their parents had not noticed any effects of the previous attendance of Religion classes, which implies a need for further evaluation of the process of the realization of this academic subject, identification of possible lacks and suggestions for improvements.
Keywords: Religion teaching, students, parents, school, expected and perceived results.
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Momčilo Bjelica, Ph.D.
TF„MihajloPupin“, Zrenjanin
Dragica Ranković, M.A.
Medicinska škola Valjevo
UDK-371.26 (681.31)
COMPUTER PROGRAMMES FOR EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE IN MATHEMATICS
Informational education should offer much more than plain computer lit eracy and traditional knowledge. Beside the implementation of the new educational contents that are more adequate for meeting the needs of the informational society, in educational institutions new forms of its practical applications in everyday work are also needed. The application of modern informational technology and programme achievements as a new mode for assessing students’ knowledge in mathematics is an example of a modern technique for evaluating the student’s attainments and skills. This new computer programme for assessing students’ knowledge in mathematics which evaluates all activities during the learning process and at the end of the learning process efficiently, qualitatively, precisely and reliably is just one of possible solutions. It is applicable in all primary and secondary schools and can be modified and used for assessingstudents achievements in other curricular subjects.
Keywords: education, assessment, students, computer programmes.
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Jelisaveta Todorović, Ph.D.
IvanaKezunović
SnežanaStojiljković, Ph.D.
Filozofski fakultet, Niš
UDK-37.081.1
THE ROLE OF FAMILY GATHERINGS IN THE FORMATION OF PERSONALITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS IN ADLOESCENTS
The basic supports of personality start to develop in early childhood andthey change and make adjustments throughout the life span. These are universal and structural characteristics of personality. The elements of the supporting system are the developmentally formed systems of psychological functions and states. These include: physical body (prime basic support); social matrix - belonging (alsoprime basic support); thinking, speech, skills and knowledge (secondary basic support);attitudes, religion, hope, purpose (tertiary proactive basic support). In our research we started with a question how the family rituals, as for example, meal activities (breakfast, lunch, dinner), walks, conversation about problems and other family matters, gatherings with wider family members and friends, house chores and the like can contribute to the formation of the basic supports of personality in adolescents. In his numerous researches, Milosavljević (2002) came to a conclusion that modern urban family, as a socio-psychological circle, has positive effects on the behaviour of the young which are proportional to the levels of daily gatherings of its members, i.e. if the family has the established timesand place for all members to get together. In our modern society in transition, professional engagement of parents, the education system and the trend of its development are sometimes detrimental to family gatherings and cohesion. The results of the research will be interpreted from the point of view of the importance of this dimension of family life for the formation of the support systems of personality.
Keywords: basic supports of personality, family, gathering, adolescence.
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Snežana Vidanović, Ph.D.
Vesna Anđelković, Ph.D.
Filozofski fakultet, Niš
UDK-37.017
AGGRESSIVENESS, TENDENCY TO RISKY BEHAVIOUR AND ADOLESCENTS’ FAMILY STRUCTURE
Bearing in mind that family environment is the basic place where the inhibition mechanism of undesired forms of behaviour, including aggressiveness, is developed we conducted a research in order to determine whether there are any differences in seeking for sensation and the level of aggressiveness between adolescents coming from complete or single-parent families. The sample comprised 80 examinees, aged 14 to 16. For the evaluation of the sensation search we used the sensation seeking scale - form V (Sensation Seeking Scale - Form V, Zuckerman, Eysenck & Eysenck), and for the level of aggressiveness the SIGMA D/4 - Momirović et al. was used. The results show that there is no difference between the adolescents coming from complete and single-parent families regarding the level of aggressiveness and the tendency to seek sensations. Sex differences turned out not to be a relevant factor either.
Keywords: single-parent family, aggressiveness, need for seeking sensations, adolescents
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Vesna Žunić-Pavlović, Ph.D.
Marina Kovačević-Lepojević
Fakultet za specijalnu edukaciju i rehabilitaciju, Beogad
Miroslav Pavlović
Zavod za unapređivanje obrazovanja i vaspitanja Beograd
UDK-37.06 (37.061)
ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS’ SOCIAL FUNCTIONING IN SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
The evaluation of students’ social functioning implies an analysis of positive and negative behaviours, i.e. the evaluation of social competence and antisocial behaviour. The first part of the article is dedicated to defining the concepts of social competence and social skills, and the role of these constructs in the development of antisocial behaviour. Presented are the results of a research on social functioning of the students of nine schools in Belgrade (N=1398). The data about the studentswere gathered from their teachers and class masters. We used the School Social Behaviour Scale - SSBS-2 for the analysis. The prominent results are the following: 82% of the students are on an average or above average level of social functioning; a deficit of social skills was found in 12% of the students; 12% of the students exhibit antisocial behaviour; in 6% of the students both the deficit of social competencies and antisocial behaviour wasfound; there is a statistically significant moderate correlation between the level of social competence and the level of antisocial behaviour (.04). The final part presents the results of the evaluation of the programmes for enhancing social functioning and offers some suggestions for improving the efficiency of the programmes which are used in our educational institutions.
Keywords: social functioning, social competence, antisocial behaviour.
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Mirjana Japundža-Milisavljević, Ph.D.
Fakultet za specijalnu edukaciju i rehabilitaciju, Beograd
UDK-376.4
ACQUISITION OF ELEMENTARY ARITHMETICAL OPERATIONS IN CHILDREN WITH IMPAIRED INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
The aim of our research was to determine the levels of acquisition of ele mentary arithmetical operations of addition and subtraction among children with impaired intellectual development and the correlation between spatial perception and elementary arithmetical operations. We examined 124 intellectually hampered subjects, aged 8-16, by the use of the LAP test for academic achievement assessment and the Better-Craige test for evaluating spatial perception. The research showed that the subjects obtained better results in estimating mathematical operations of addition than subtraction. Further, the correlative analysis between elementary arithmetical operations and spatial perception indicates the existence of statistically highly significant relatedness. The obtained results highlight the need for curricular changes and the importance of curricular contents adjustments to the students’ individual abilities and capabilities dependent on the development of spatial perception.
Keywords: addition, subtraction, mental retardation, spatial perception.
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Branka Jablan, Ph.D.
Fakultet za specijalnu edukaciju i rehabilitaciju, Beograd
Dženana Radžo, M.A.
Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet, Tuzla
QUALITY AND RATE OF DRAWING OF BLIND CHILDREN
For a blind child the journey to a completed drawing is rather long, and much time should be dedicated to the development of the skill. Blind children are able to master the basics of drawing and so increase their successfulness in those curricular fields that rely, among other things, on drawing, too. Particularly the field of junior school mathematics abounds with the contents which are not suitable for mere oral explanations but require visual presentation. Such contents are, for example: line and field (curve, straight line, open and closed line), line segment, perceiving and drawing rectangles, squares, triangles, parallel and vertical lines, angles. The aims of the research were to evaluate the quality and speed of drawing of blind students and to determine whether there are significant differences between drawing on a wax board and drawing on a positive foil. The quality and rate of blind students’ drawing were assessed by the use of the Luria-Nebrasca neuropsychological battery for children (LNNB-C, Golden, 1987), items 21 to 32. The results of the research showed that the quality and the rate of drawing of blind students are much better when positive foils are used in comparison to traditionally used wax board.
Keywords: blind children, quality of drawing, rate of drawing.
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Aleksandra Anđelković, M.A.
OŠ “Radovan Kovačević– Maksim”,
Lebane
UDK-371.51(37.064)
CAUSES OF EMERGENCE AND FORMS OF TEACHER-STUDENT CONFLICT SITUATION DEMONSTRATION
The paper presents the results of a research of the causes and forms of the conflict situations between the teacher and students. We came to the conclusion that teacher-student conflict situations most frequently are not accepted adequately nor readily admitted, and that the teachers, comprised in our sample, usually resolve them by ending the discussion. It turned out that sometimes conflict situations grow into processes which are unacceptable and impermissible in educational work because of the modes some teachers choose to resolve them. In addition to the central aim of finding out the origins and the forms of conflicts, the research revealed a number of unexpected situations in everyday school life, as well as the lack of understanding and knowledge ofthe possibilities of social skills both among the students and the teachers.
Keywords: conflict situation, forms of conflict demonstration, teacher-student relationship.
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JelenaPavlović
MPS-Školska uprava Užice
MilicaTošić-Rudić
OŠ “Emilija Ostojić”, Požega
UDK-371.12
STUDENTS OPINIONS ON THE TEACHER’S FEATURES
The research presented in this paper was aimed at examining whether there is any difference in the assessment of desirable and undesirable features of teachers depending upon the age, sex and academic attainment of seniorelementary school students. Also, we examined whether these three variables (age, sex, academic attainment in the previous school year) have any influence when students opt for their favourite school subjects. We used an open questionnaire on the sample of 148 students of the fifth, sixth and eighth year of the Elementary school ‘’Emilija Ostojić’’ in Požega who were in different phases of the implementation of the curriculum.
Keywords: evaluation, favourite subjects, teacher’s features.
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