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The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession
Anka Jurčević-Lozančić
; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb
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APA 6th Edition
Jurčević-Lozančić, A. (2015). The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession. Croatian Journal of Education, 17 (Sp.Ed.1), 125-135. Retrieved from https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696
MLA 8th Edition
Jurčević-Lozančić, Anka. "The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession." Croatian Journal of Education, vol. 17, no. Sp.Ed.1, 2015, pp. 125-135. https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696. Accessed 16 Aug. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Jurčević-Lozančić, Anka. "The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession." Croatian Journal of Education 17, no. Sp.Ed.1 (2015): 125-135. https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696
Harvard
Jurčević-Lozančić, A. (2015). 'The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession', Croatian Journal of Education, 17(Sp.Ed.1), pp. 125-135. Available at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696 (Accessed 16 August 2024)
Vancouver
Jurčević-Lozančić A. The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession. Croatian Journal of Education [Internet]. 2015 [cited 2024 August 16];17(Sp.Ed.1):125-135. Available from: https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696
IEEE
A. Jurčević-Lozančić, "The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession", Croatian Journal of Education, vol.17, no. Sp.Ed.1, pp. 125-135, 2015. [Online]. Available: https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696. [Accessed: 16 August 2024]
Full text: croatian pdf 355 Kb
page 125-135
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cite
APA 6th Edition
Jurčević-Lozančić, A. (2015). The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession. Croatian Journal of Education, 17 (Sp.Ed.1), 125-135. Retrieved from https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696
MLA 8th Edition
Jurčević-Lozančić, Anka. "The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession." Croatian Journal of Education, vol. 17, no. Sp.Ed.1, 2015, pp. 125-135. https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696. Accessed 16 Aug. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Jurčević-Lozančić, Anka. "The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession." Croatian Journal of Education 17, no. Sp.Ed.1 (2015): 125-135. https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696
Harvard
Jurčević-Lozančić, A. (2015). 'The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession', Croatian Journal of Education, 17(Sp.Ed.1), pp. 125-135. Available at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696 (Accessed 16 August 2024)
Vancouver
Jurčević-Lozančić A. The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession. Croatian Journal of Education [Internet]. 2015 [cited 2024 August 16];17(Sp.Ed.1):125-135. Available from: https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696
IEEE
A. Jurčević-Lozančić, "The Road to Quality in the Theory and Practice of Early Learning: Identity of the Preschool Teacher Profession", Croatian Journal of Education, vol.17, no. Sp.Ed.1, pp. 125-135, 2015. [Online]. Available: https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696. [Accessed: 16 August 2024]
Abstract
The profession of preschool teachers is extremely complex, requiring high professional awareness, continuous research of educational practice, responsibility, ethics, creativity, continuous reflective judgement, and it is almost impossible to achieve professional advancement without lifelong learning and professional development. The study, the results of which are presented in this paper, was conducted in order to determine the attitudes of preschool teachers towards the need and importance of their further professional development in relation to some socio-demographic factors (the current initial training of preschool teachers, age, years of work experience, the number and size of the preschool institutions located in a town or a village). This study included 573 preschool teachers from Zagreb, Karlovac, Međimurje, Bjelovar-Bilogora, and Virovitica-Podravina counties. The results of this study show that with respect to age, the existing level of initial education and years of work experience of preschool teachers, a statistically significant difference was obtained only regarding the first of the five items in total (Knowledge acquired during my study has significantly improved my theoretical expertise). The values of descriptive statistics indicate that the existing initial education has more or less met their theoretical and practical expectations in terms of the acquisition of overall knowledge.
Keywords
attitudes of preschool teachers; early childhood education; lifelong learning; quality of theory and practice
Hrčak ID:
137696
URI
https://hrcak.srce.hr/137696
Publication date:
25.2.2015.
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