Original scientific paper
Education and Cultural Pluralism – Attitudes of Secondary School Students
Marija Buterin
; Department of Pedagogy, University of Zadar
Stjepan Jagić
; Department of Pedagogy, University of Zadar
Abstract
Multicultural composition of Croatian society, globalization processes and new integrations bring the question of education of members of different nations into focus. School, as a factor in forming social relationships, should take cultural characteristics and needs of all its members into consideration, whereby an important role is played by the attitudes of children and young people towards a joint schooling of members of different nations. Since they represent a precondition for the construction of an intercultural school, analyses of such attitudes are indispensable as the basis for raising awareness of the relationship toward “other” and “different” in school setting. The aim of this empirical study was to investigate the attitudes of pupils of secondary schools on education of members of different nations. The study included 1709 students from various secondary schools in the Republic of Croatia. The data were obtained using a questionnaire. The analysis of the results revealed significant differences in attitudes towards joint education with regard to gender, class and type of high school, and in attitudes towards school assimilation with regard to gender, ethnicity and type of high school.
Keywords
intercultural education; cultural pluralism; high school; school assimilation; joint education
Hrčak ID:
105319
URI
Publication date:
15.7.2013.
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