Review article
Comparative Analysis of Sciense and Social Studies Syllabi in the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia
Mirjana Boras
; OŠ Malešnica, Zagreb
Abstract
Numerous changes in politics and the economy, technological advances, and rapid development of IT knowledge have marked the end of the last and beginning of this century. Such changes are reflected in educational systems including Croatia and Slovenia. Along with the changes in the system of education in the countries mentioned, innovations also occurred in the development of syllabi. A comparative analysis of the Croatian national teaching standards (2006) and the Slovene Teaching program (1998) for the analogous subjects Social Sciences (Cro. Priroda i društvo) and the Slovene Learning about the environment (Slo. Upoznavanje okoline) analyzes the nature in which the changes reflected important elements of the syllabi (scope of the teaching plan, organization and structure of teaching content and teaching aims).
The movement for modernizing social sciences and application of a more learner centered approach is evident. What is more, there is an need to more specifically develop the relations of child-nature-society through appropriate content.
Keywords
syllabus; Social Sciences; modern teaching; Learning about the environment; learner-centered
Hrčak ID:
82838
URI
Publication date:
15.1.2010.
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