UNESCO and Council of Europe have adopted at the15th anniversary of the Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications in the European region, together with the University of Toledo, a conference dedicated to reflection of effects of the adopted convention. A member of this program research group was invited by the organizers to prepare introductory lecture (invited plenary lecture), which analyzes the circumstances that led to the adoption of this international document, successes and obstacles in the implementation of its national higher education systems and open theoretical and practical issues in regard to the recognition of qualifications open today. The results of our own recent research on higher education reforms in Europe after 1990 were used and referred to. The lecture will be published in a monograph which will be issued by the Council of Europe in the autumn 2013.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 9276745A group of Serbian experts have prepared from 2011 until the beginning of 2012 a new long-term strategy of education in the Republic of Serbia. Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia has invited more foreign experts to draft a review and evaluate this strategy. Thust also a member of our the program research group was invited to prepare review of two chapters of this strategy (funding education and teacher education). This review was based on knowledge of the state of education in the Republic of Serbia; and the planned strategy is evaluated in relation to trends in other European countries. In doing so, own results of recent research on educational policies in the (post-) transition countries and the new European trends in the field of teacher education have been applied.
D.06 Final report on a foreign/international project
COBISS.SI-ID: 9157193The research study focuses on teachers' perceptions of pupils' behaviour in the classroom (through the prism of disruptive behaviour, learning efficacy, sociability and self-image) by taking into account that such perceptions are the results of transactions between the teacher and the pupil. The study set out from the position that teachers recognise in those groups of pupils who are in the Slovenian society seen as inferior and marginal higher levels of unacceptable behaviour than in the population of ordinary pupils and those of high socio-economic background. It has been discovered that among the compared groups of pupils the Roma children are perceived as displaying the least desirable behaviour followed by children with special needs and children of migrants from the former Yugoslav republics. Children of poor socio-economic background are perceived by teachers as totally unnoticeable in terms of disruptive behaviour, however, they seem to be the least socially included and they display the least desirable behaviour in terms of learning efficacy and self-image. Children from well standing families seem to display quite the opposite behaviours. It is very important to understand how teachers perceive children as such understanding can contribute to recognising their role not only in the addressing of disruptive behaviour but also in its generation.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 9518153This monograph presents the results of empirical research which was conducted on a representative sample of counselors employed in the Slovenian public kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, which were used to determine the functioning of the counselling services. We reserached the counselors' opinions about their initial training, the introduction of counselors into the profession, the system of further education and training, promotion system counselors in professional titles, assignments counseling services, counselors cooperation with external institutions, material and operating conditions. Special attention was paid to the three thematic areas of counselors' working: issues of child abuse, creating an educational plan and work with children with special needs.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 261833472In the framework of theoretical and empirical studies of the system of compulsory education, we developed and implemented an empirical study in which we determined how many hours per week on average for the different types of work done by teachers in primary schools. The study has significance for understanding and maintaining the quality of teachers in Slovenian schools.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 264013056