The aim of this article is to analyse the relationships among the different actors involved in educational trajectories in Slovenia, to understand their different perspectives, and to describe the constellations of factors of relevance, responsibility and support in students educational trajectories. The research instruments are semi-structured interviews with different actors (students, parents, teachers, counsellors, experts). Since the 1970s, Slovenia has managed to strongly raise the educational level of especially disadvantaged groups of young people, such as women and children from socially weaker families and milieus. This kind of system has supported the social integration of disadvantaged, socially vulnerable and handicapped groups of young people. However, today and especially in the light of the increasingly serious economic and social crisis this system is under threat from both the outside and inside. Externally, it is threatened by the lack of financial and material resources, the neoliberal austerity policy and the weakening of the institutions of the welfare state; internally, it is weakened by the imbalance between key educational agents, students, parents, teachers and experts. While the external pressures are weakening the strength and position of schools as the key educational institutions, the internal pressures are diminishing the professional authority of teachers and their professional competencies.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32494941
The article is based on the research National survey on violence within the private sphere and partnership relations. The article presents the findings of one part of the research concerning the physical and psychological condition of women who suffer violence and the consequences of violence for their health. The findings of the research show that violence importantly affects women's health, given that those women who experienced violence gave lower self-assessment of their health condition. An especially high incidence of suicidal thoughts has also been observed, with the highest rate of incidence established among women who experienced sexual violence, and somewhat lower among the victims of physical violence. Various forms of physical violence frequently cause lasting injuries that are revealing of the intensity of violence. With sexual violence, physical injuries are fewer but emotional problems are more numerous.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2860261
The paper presents an analysis of discourses on children whose first language is not Slovenian and their integration into Slovenian primary schools. The research is based on a critical discourse analysis of in-depth interviews and focus groups conducted in 2011 with primary school teachers, local experts and high-level government experts in two Slovenian towns Koper and Ljubljana. The paper shows how the lack of language proficiency of children whose first language is not Slovenian becomes constructed as a problem within specific regimes of truth.The paper claims that inclusion through language works as a governmental technique where language proficiency represents a symbolic threshold for the cultural and social integration of children whose first language is not Slovenian.This preconditions their acceptance in the hegemonic culture and society. Therefore, the paper shows how policy, experts and teachers declaratively aim for the democratic inclusion of children whose first language is not Slovenian in Slovenian schools, but at the same time they reproduce ethnocentric arguments creating an assimilationist discourse.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32495197
Following Bourdieuʼs concept of capital, the paper discusses how different states of cultural capital (institutionalised, incorporated and objectified) affect health capital. Methods: The effect of cultural capital on self-assessed health is estimated with a propensity score matching approach using observational data from the "Media consumption, class and cultural stratification" survey. The survey was conducted in 2010 and covered the adult population in the two biggest cities in Slovenia: Ljubljana and Maribor (n = 820). The analyses investigate whether and how different states of cultural capital affect self-assessed health, and whether there are gender differences in how cultural capital affects self-assessed health. Results: Cultural capital has a positive effect on health: persons with high cultural capital report a better selfassessed health than persons with low cultural capital. All states of cultural capital (institutionalised, objectified and incorporated) have a significant positive conditional effect on self-assessed health for women, but for men only the overall cultural capital has a significant positive effect. Conclusions: Cultural capital is an important resource for gaining and maintaining good health and can be seen as a source of (in)equities in health.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2859493
The paper analyzes changes in the gendered division of family labour and the recent phenomenon of active fatherhood in Slovenia. Based on qualitative empirical evidence, the authors argue that changes in the relocation of care between women and men in family life are significant in the values and expectations of individuals rather than in practices. Gender inequality in family labour is not seen only in the allocation of domestic work and childcare as such, but also in the allocation of responsibilities, strategies of negotiation etc. This means that women usually take over the organisation and management of the home, study and the carrying out of domestic work. This holds important practical and symbolic consequences that are addressed in the paper. Within the division of family labour, several changes are observed in parenting where in particular the emotional part of caring has become the domain of both parents. The article focuses especially on changes in the paternal role and the consequences for the gendered division of labour within the family. The so-called new or active fatherhood in Slovenia is chiefly present in the form of a supporting paternal role, which strengthens and maintains the position of motherhood and mothering as the primary family role, and puts the fathering role in a secondary, supportive position. Consequently, active fatherhood is not directly connected with a more equal division of labour or even the notion of gender equality. The authors discuss social contexts, subjective and structural factors/obstacles to changes in the gendered division of family labour in Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31835997