Naslov
Civic Education in the Republic of Croatia – Familiarity with the Institutions of the European Union among Students of the Faculty of Teacher Education

Autori
Velički, Damir

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Conference Proceedings The Future of Education (ur. Pixel). 8th Conference Edition, Florence / - Firenza : München, 2018, 544-549

ISBN
978-88-3359-020-2

Skup
International Conference the Future of Education

Mjesto i datum
Firenca, Italija, 28.06.2018. - 29.06.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Civic Education ; Croatia ; EU ; Institutions ; Teacher Education

Sažetak
Acquiring civic competences is one of the crucial goals of education systems in democratic socie-ties. Encouraging young people to take an active role in society and politics should be a priority in every society. In most European countries, Civic Education is present in school systems, although under different names and varying in scope. In Croatia, the program of Civic Education is cross-curricular, but the results of numerous studies show the need for systematic, high-quality implementation of Civic Education as a separate mandatory school subject in higher years of compulsory education, secondary schools, as well as in institutions of higher education, particularly the ones devoted to educating future teachers. This need is also supported by the fact that reading lit-eracy is one of the central competencies for participation in politics and society, and according to the 2015 PISA study results, Croatia is among the countries whose scores were below average in this regard. Furthermore, factual knowledge of politics is another important dimensions of demo-cratic culture, since it is a prerequisite to understanding political problems. Teacher proficiencies are also a key factor in the development of civic competences, so the paper further presents a part of the results of a study conducted in 2017/18 at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, which examined familiarity with EU institutions among the students of the Faculty of Teacher Education. The obtained results show that even future teachers themselves also possess certain inadequacies in political literacy

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija

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