Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.32903/zs.66.2.6
HIGH SCHOOLERS FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS AS SUPPORT TO STUDENTS' SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL AND INTERPERSONAL (SEI) COMPETENCES ENFORCEMENT
Sanja Vučetić
; XV. gimnazija, Zagreb
Ana Dundović
Abstract
It is with great interest that the modern society of today has been discussing the 'society of knowledge'
and the 'society of education', putting great emphasis on the professional and educational
role of the teacher and environment within the process of a life-long education of students. The
project in question was set up to correspond with the idea of the comprehensive curricular reform
of the Croatian education system together with the programme 'School for Life', and it aims to
encourage and develop social-emotional as well as interpersonal (SEI) competences in students and
teachers, taking into consideration that the competences in question have been proven to have a
positive effect on students' academic success and skills improvement, as well as on their general
development. A secondary goal of the project was to present good practice examples with special
attention paid to activities of prevention in a partner-school, with students as mediators. This
research was undertaken as a part of the 'High Schoolers for High Schoolers' project, from October
2018 to April 2019, in form of a single visit to both schools, which included interactive workshops
previously prepared by schools. The workshops were conducted by students mediators, that is four
senior grade students from XV. gimnazija as members of a psychology-group, and five 11th-grade
students mediators from Gimnazija Josipa Slavenskog in Čakovec. Forty-five 9th- and 11th-grade
students from XV. gimnazija and seventy-five 9th- and 10th-grade students from Gimnazija Josipa
Slavenskog participated in the project. A test sample consisted of four students mediators and fortyfive
students participants from XV. gimnazija. As for the project evaluation, two short questionnaires
were designed, depending on the role of the examinees in the project (student mediator or student
participant), with a 5 point Likert scale to be completed at the end of a visit. A descriptive data
analysis was conducted using the SPSS 20.0 system, and the process and content evaluation results
show a stronger collaboration effect, as well as a stronger satisfaction level in terms of collaboration,
in case of students mediators than in case of other students participants, in almost all estimated
items. The results support further collaboration of this kind.
Keywords
evaluation; inter-school collaboration; SEI competences; School for Life; activities of prevention in school
Hrčak ID:
254932
URI
Publication date:
2.12.2020.
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