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TEACHING AND LEARNING
Dr Ala Stepanovna Sidenko:
On innovative and traditional teaching
models
Dr Radovan Antonijević:
Possibilities and prerequisites of connecting
Mr Nikoleta Milošević, Ivana Luković:
Learning context and achievement knowledge in the teaching process in physics
Rajka Studen, Ivana Đerić:
Educational problems of Roma children
DISTANCE EDUCATION
Željko Stanković:
Development of distance learning technology
TEACHING PERSONNEL
Dr Budislav Suša:
Factors of teachers' professional efficiency
Dr Nedeljko Trnavac:
School pedagogues in Serbia - who are they?
PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION
Dr Vesna Colić:
Functions of adult speech in preschools
HISTORY OF EDUCATION
Dr Emina Kopas-Vukašinović:
Pre-school education in Serbia in the period from 1945-1958
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REVIWES AND REFLECTIONS
Jelena Maksimović:
Introduction to the methodology of pedagogical research
Notes for contributors
Dr Ala Stepanovna Sidenko
Akademija Ruske federacije za usavršavanje i prekvalifikaciju nastavnika
Moskva
Pregledni članak
Primljeno: 10. IV 2006.
ON INNOVATIVE AND TRADITIONAL TEACHING MODELS
The paper discusses the characteristics and the scope of innovative and traditional teaching models with a special emphasis on the educational development model by B.B Davidov, B.D. Elkonin, L.V. Zankov, and associates. It is an issue of different philosophical approaches to education, of different conceptual paradigms for shaping the learning environment, of different views on what is necessary to develop in the student and how it should be achieved. A number of dilemmas arise from this, all seeking the answer to one question: can all forms of teaching be labelled developmental? The answer of the Russian psychology school is that learning developsonly in specific conditions, meaning that the pedagogue's duty is to create a teaching process of the developmental type by using various developmental approaches. Furthermore, it is possible to define some basic characteristics of the development-aimed learningenvironment which takes account of the fact that the problem of why and how to teach must be solved in different ways when planning the innovative model of the teaching process, depending upon which psychological-pedagogical concepts are chosen as basic, and which conditions for planning and realization of the educational environment are selected to be applied.
Keywords: developmental teaching, innovative teaching model, traditional teachingmodel, approach to development, approach to education.
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Dr Radovan Antonijević
Institut za pedagoška istraživanja
Izvorni naučni rad
Beograd
Primljeno: 16. III 2006
POSSIBILITIES AND PREREQUISITES OF CONNECTING KNOWLEDGE IN THE TEACHING PROCESS
The development of a complete and logically consistent system of knowledge of students in all areas of teaching is one of the essential aims of modern teaching. Hence, it is important whether and how teaching enables studentsto link different concepts and knowledge. For knowledge connecting in the teaching process and the development of the system of interrelated knowledge it is crucial that the students develop the operations of theoretical scientific thinking which, according to the theory of developmental teaching, is possible to be started even in the initial years of primary schoolby selecting adequate teaching contents. In order to stimulate the students' development of the knowledge system by teaching contents it is necessary that these enable students a) toapproach the matter of cognition as a complete and functional system, b) to discover the internal essence of the cognition matter, c) to find out complex internal interrelations and d) to detect the developmental origin of the cognition matter, i.e. to discover internal conditions of its originating, development and transformation.
Keywords: teaching, process of cognition, knowledge interrelatedness, theoretical scientific knowledge, knowledge system.
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Mr Nikoleta Milošević, Ivana Luković
Institut za pedagoška istraživanja
Pregledni članak
Beograd
Primljeno: 24. IV 2006.
LEARNING CONTEXT AND ACHIEVEMENT IN PHYSICS
The paper presents partial findings of an extensive international project aimed at studying the trends in achievement of primary school students in the fields of mathematics and natural sciences. In Serbia, the research was carried out in May, 2003 and included 149 primary schools. The participants were 4.296 eighth grade students, 879 teachers and 149 principals. The basic question was: how isphysics taught in our primary schools? Generally speaking, the results indicate that our students are not trained well enough to: a) connect knowledge from related fields, b) connect concepts into systems, c) apply theoretical knowledge in practical situations, or when solving new problems. Such low performance of our students in the stated domains is attributed to professional characteristics of their teachers, personal resources of the students, and the context in which the knowledge is acquired.
Keywords: physics learning context, educational achievement, teacher, student.
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Rajka Studen, Ivana Đerić
Institut za pedagoška istraživanja
Beograd
Stručni članak
Primljeno: 7. IV 2006.
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF ROMA CHILDREN
The aim of the research was to examine and analyse the educational problems of primary school Roma children. The sample comprised 110 Roma children of the seventh and eighth grades and 61 class and subject teachers in fourprimary schools in Belgrade. The data were gathered by the use of two different questionnaires, one for the students and another one for their teachers. The results show that Roma students encounter various difficulties connected with studying the curricularcontents and have various other problems that hamper their studying. Especially acute is the problem of inadequate conditions for study in the home. Few Rom students understand lecturing due to insufficient knowledge of the language, poor prior subject knowledge, lackof motivation for knowledge acquisition, and social and economic problems. Presented are some measures, suggested by both the students and teachers, for overcoming the mentioned difficulties.
Keywords: Roma children, teachers, educational problems, inclusion
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Željko Stanković dipl.inž.el.
Zavod za unapređivanje obrazovanja i vaspitanja
Beograd
Pregledni članak
Primljeno: 20. V 2006.
DEVELOPMENT OF DISTANCЕ LEARNING TECHNOLOGY
It is becoming more and more frequent that, of lately, one encounters words with the prefix e- in daily press, periodicals and professional literature, like e-mail , e-banking , e-commerce , e-learning , etc. What they all have in common is that they are computer services which enable the performance of narrowly specialized jobs. For instance, E-mail enables sending and receiving mail by using computers connected in a network. E-banking is specialized for banking, e.g. checking the balance of one's bank accounts. Electronic learning (e-learning) enables the user to attend one of the offered courses which can be found on the websites of educational institutions. The article reviews the development of distance learning, the predecessor of the Web oriented learning, in the technologically most developed countries. The process of the development of the technologies that followed this type of learning is also described and adequately illustrated. In addition, some of the most significant terms linked with distance learning via modern technology are presented and explained.
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Dr Budislav Suša
Vojna akademija
Beograd
Izvorni naučni rad
Primljeno: 12. IV 2006.
FACTORS OF TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL EFFICIENCY
The paper presents a portion of the results of an empirical research on the problem of professional efficiency of teachers as viewed by the teachers of the Military Academy. In the research, three dimensions of the teachers' efficiency were analysed: expertness, didactic-methodical dimension, and character qualities. The sample comprised 258 respondent teachers who evaluated the importance of each dimension for an efficient performance of the teaching process. The factor analysis was used to single out and describe the factors for each dimension of the professional efficiency of teachers.
Keywords: teacher, teacher's efficiency, factor analysis, teacher efficiency factors.
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Dr Nedeljko Trnavac
Filozofski fakultet
Beograd
Stručni članak
Primljeno: 25. V 2006.
SCHOOL PEDAGOGUES IN SERBIA - WHO ARE THEY?
In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the profession of school pedagogues in Serbia (1958-2008) an extensive research was undertaken in order to get answers to three questions: a) who are school pedagogues in Serbia (‘identity card' of school pedagogues); b) what are the conditions (ambience) in which the pedagogues work; and c) what (programmes) and how (method problems) do pedagogues work? The paper presents an account of the first part of the research regarding: age and gender structure, work experience, pedagogue parents' education (social background), family, financial situation, housing, self-evaluation of personal and professional abilities, motives that drove them to choose the profession of a school pedagogue, and their further education and advancement. This is a case of a relatively young line of profession, of a group of people regularly educated, self-confident and dedicated to children and their vocation. It is a group of experts not without problems in their field of work, yet still full of enthusiasm and inspiration.
Keywords: school pedagogue, professional development, vocational choice, work experience.
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Dr Vesna Colić
Viša škola za obrazovanje vaspitača
Novi Sad
Stručni članak
Primljeno: 9. V 2006.
FUNCTIONS OF ADULT SPEECH IN PRESCHOOLS
The importance of speech communication for the development of the child has been indisputable for a long time. In the same way, no one denies the importance of preschool institutions as a specific and desirable environment for living and growing up of modern children. Due to its structure and organization and by creating this specific environment, the preschool institution conditions both the adults and the children to behave and communicate in a determined way. The article attempts to shed light on the functions of the speech of adults in the preschool institution, which can be taken as an indication of not only the provision of adult speech model for the child, but can also indicate to the nature of the adult-child relationship, to the position the child is put in by the adults in the preschool institution, and to the values which are being transmitted. In other words, we have tried to detect the adults' socialization intentions from the functions that the adult speech has in nurseries.
Keywords: adult speech, speech functions, educational group, nurse-educator, children of early age.
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Dr Emina Kopas-Vukašinović
Institut za pedagoška istraživanja
Beograd
Pregledni članak
Primljeno: 15. V 2006.
PRESCHOOL EDUCATION IN SERBIA IN THE PERIOD FROM 1945-1958
Having previously presented the curricula of preschool education in Serbia at the time of its establishment, and those used in the period between World War I and World War II, it is our intention now to continue reviewing the basic curricular concepts in the subsequent period, i.e. from the end of the WWII to 1958. The historical-pedagogical context is discussed first, followed by a presentation of the then valid programme documents. Based on the Instructions for Preschool Teachers, a document which had been translated from Russian, a description and explanation of the aims, objectives, contents and activities are presented, after which the ideas of the pedagogic theorists of the time about producing Supplements on preschool educational methodology are discussed. These were either translated from Russian or modelled after them.
Keywords: kindergarten, instructions for work, educational methodology, preschool age.
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