Preliminary communication
ATTITUDES OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TOWARDS LIFELONG LEARNING AND LIFELONG EDUCATION
Višnja Rajić
orcid.org/0000-0002-5331-835X
; Učiteljski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Goran Lapat
; Učiteljski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
Education is without a doubt an important factor of social
and individual development in all modern societies. Everyday circumstances require constant assessments of one owns competences of every one of us and especially of teachers. The ability to work with quality accomplishes by self-critic and high motivation for continuum of lifelong education. Educational organization should develop and enhance personal development of teachers and further development of educational system. The paper discuses the attitudes of future teachers about lifelong learning and lifelong education in their professional lifetime. Content analysis of the students’ papers (future primary teachers) tried to identify their attitudes toward lifelong learning. In their papers students show great understanding of the topic and describe lifelong education as a constant process (76.67%). Half of the students wrote that lifelong education is a necessity (50.82%). Students found that lifelong education will the quality of their work (39.34%), as well as the development of their competences (34.43%). When writing about the forms of their lifelong learning and education most students chose nonformal education (seminars, workshops, courses – 81.97% of them, informal forms of education (52.46% - self education) and 32.79% of the students see their further education in the
formal education (PhD level).
Keywords
Lifelong education; lifelong learning; attitudes; pre-service teachers
Hrčak ID:
103682
URI
Publication date:
11.6.2010.
Visits: 4.657 *