Naslov
The Attitudes of Students and Teachers Towards Civic Education and Human Rights
(The Attitudes of Students and Teachers Towards Civic Education and Human)

Autori
Piršl, Elvi ; Marušić-Štimac, Orjana ; Pokrajac-Bulian, Alessandra ; Ivić, Sonja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Learning and Livelihood / Schweisfurth, Michele ; Preston, Rosemary ; Theobald, David ; Henderson, Thelma ; - Birmingham : Centre for International Education and Research, School of Education, University of Birmingham, 2005, 64 - 65

Skup
The 8th UKFIET International Conference of Education and Development

Mjesto i datum
Oxford, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 13.09.2005. - 15.09.2005

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
rights; obligations; responsibilities; democracy; freedom; peace.

Sažetak
Schools and education are one of the most sensitive and important issues for the transmission of cultural knowledge and development of attitudes towards one’ s own and other groups, as well as towards civil society, human rights and public life in general. Historically, school and family have been used to promote dominant values, beliefs and ways of life. In this way, education for civil society and human rights can and should be thought continuously through school life and not only through specific curriculum. Education for civil society and human rights is therefore an essential element which should be interwoven into all areas of learning and life. The purpose of this research is to present how the meaning of these values depends on life experience that each stakeholder has or has had at school, at home or in his/her local community. Namely, a high awareness of values is absolutely essential and using it in everyday life is more important than mere knowledge. In our opinion, we should be living the values fully and not only engage in teaching them. Students learn by mirroring their parents and teachers, and vice versa, teachers and parents learn from their children. But there is a question: are parents and teachers prepared enough to teach their children or students to live and promote those values? Maybe, teachers and parents also need to get involved in preparing themselves for citizenship and human rights education. The aim of this study was to examine the attitudes and opinions of primary and high school students and their teachers towards civic education at school, family environment and local community. The sample comprised 208 primary school students, 106 high school students and 111 teachers. The values like rights, obligations, responsibilities, democracy, freedom and peace were examined in relation to subjects’ gender, age and level of school (primary and high). The results show the statistically significant difference in the freedom of decision-making in local community between female and male students of primary and high school. Male students show higher level of freedom to make decisions in local community than their female peers. But, on the other hand, girls show higher motivation for active participation in society, than boys. Regarding school level, there is statistically significant difference between primary and high school students. Primary school students show higher degree in freedom to make decisions at school than high school students. Furthermore, primary school students show higher perceptions of freedom of expressing their own attitudes and opinions in local community than high school students. High school students evaluate their local community more active towards helping elderly, helpless and disable people, than primary school students. Finally, primary school students are more willing to be active in resolving local community problems than their high school colleague’ s. Teachers of primary schools have more positive attitudes towards introducing human rights and civic education in teaching curriculum than teacher of high schools. Moreover, there is a statistically significant difference in the level of attitudes towards introducing human rights and civic education in teaching curriculum in relation to age: younger teachers have more positive attitudes toward those values than their older colleague’ s.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija

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