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The Quality of Teacher Education in Croatia According to Students

The author reported on the quality of teacher education in Croatia from a student perspective. Quality teacher eduaction is one of the fundamental assumptions of successful educational activity in practice, and quality control in education is an important issue in European countries. In order to avoid learning from xperience based on trial and error, it is neccessary to capacitate future teachers with quality teoretical and practical foundations for development of pedagogical competencies, with which they will be able to respond appropriate to requests of educational practice. Therefore we examined students' motivation for choosing the teaching profession, self-assessment of their own pedagogical competence, as well as their contentment with knowledge acquired during studies. As a reason for choosing pedagogical study programme, students usually state love for a teaching profession, but also using the opportunity to gain teaching competence during the study. In general, students estimate their pedagogical competencies as very good and are mostly satisfied with knowledge and skills acquired during study, with exeption of social and communication skills, so it is highly recommended to accentuate the acquisition of these competencies. These findings may provide some new ideas in a future design of a teacher education curricullum.

teacher education ; pedagogical competencies ; social competencies ; communication skills

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