Stručni rad
https://doi.org/10.32903/zs.68.1-2.10
EXPLORING SEVENTH AND EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS PRACTICAL LIFE SKILLS
Karolina Doutlik
; Osnovna škola „Ivan Benkovićˮ, Dugo Selo
Tanja Maltar Okun
; Osnovna škola Sveti Petar Orehovec, Orehovec
Sažetak
Contemporary education aims to provide holistic development for students, that is, to meet their cognitive and emotional needs and develop their motor skills. Modern schools place equal emphasis on head, heart, and hand learning, thus enabling students to take a more active role in the learning process. It is extremely important for the future life of current students that they acquire practical life skills. However, the current education system in Croatia does not adequately prepare them for that. Compulsory education does not provide students in Croatia with opportunities to develop or acquire various practical or necessary life skills and competencies. In the past, students were taught these skills within a school subject Domestic Science, where they learned about clothing, housing, and nutrition. In that way, they gained practical knowledge and skills and were able to apply them in everyday life situations.
Inter-county research was conducted to obtain the parents' opinions (N = 232) of 7th and 8th-grade students regarding their children's practical life skills. The obtained results point to the necessity of introducing a school subject in which students would have the opportunity to acquire practical life skills. Research results revealed that practical life skills of 7th and 8th-grade students are insufficiently developed and that there are statistically significant differences in possessing these skills, as well as in participation in household chores regarding gender. The research results also indicate that parents have positive attitudes about the introduction of Domestic Science as a school subject in primary education in Croatia, where students would acquire practical life skills.
Ključne riječi
holistic development; Domestic Science; practical classes.
Hrčak ID:
289587
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2022.
Posjeta: 604 *