Prethodno priopćenje
Strengthening Future Preschool Teachers' Role in Preserving Mental Health of Preschool Children: Current Changes in the Study Program
Sanja Tatalović Vorkapić
; Učiteljski fakultet, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Nataša Vlah
; Učiteljski fakultet, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Lidija Vujičić
; Učiteljski fakultet, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The main goal of study programme improvement is to ensure development
of all competencies required for adequate professional practice and development. In
the academic year 2010/2011 the study program of Early and Preschool Care and
Education at the Faculty of Teacher Education in Rijeka offered to its students an
elective course in Developmental Psychopathology for the first time. The aim of this
study was to analyse the attitudes of the future preschool teachers about their role in
preserving mental health of preschool children and about purposefulness of the offered
course.
Thirty-two students (2 male and 30 female, average age 22 years) participated in the
study. A poll of 15 closed-ended questions was administered. The participation in the
study was voluntarily and anonymous, and it lasted for about 5 minutes.
The results confirmed the hypothesis about usefulness and adequacy of the new elecSanja
tive course in creating competencies that future preschool teachers need to preserve
mental health in preschool children. All evaluations have ranked high and very high,
which shows that: a) future preschool teachers are highly sensitive to their preventive
role in the early detection of risk behaviour in preschool children; b) future preschool
teachers think that their competencies in preserving children’s mental health have
been improved; c) these two implications were made possible due to the course in
Developmental Psychopathology that they attended.
Ključne riječi
developmental psychopathology; preschool teachers' role; preserving mental health of preschool children; study programme
Hrčak ID:
95248
URI
Datum izdavanja:
17.12.2012.
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