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THE POSITION AND ROLE OF PARENTS IN THE (CONTEMPORARY) HUMANISTIC CONCEPT OF PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION
Arjana Miljak
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
Abstract
The authoress discusses the position and role of parents in the
process of education and in educational programs (curricula) for
pre-school children in the pre-war period. Based on this analysis,
she concludes that parents were given a minor role. The educational
institution and the family were "two separate worlds". The
parents were in a way subordinate to the institution, while education
was mostly "a matter of the state". This was particularly so in
the seventies. The second program, from the year 1983, gives a
certain freedom to the parents, even "acknowledging" their existence
and attempts to define a program for working with children
in the second family. The authoress speaks in behalf of a different
concept of educational programs, finding reason for her statement
in the discrepancies between the program and the reality of
education. In the humanistic concept of curricula the approach to
the development of curricula differs from the approach to the
educator/teacher, parent and all the participants, directly or indirectly
included in the process of education. In such a concept the
parents have a particularly important position and role. The article
discusses the model of the parent consumer who chooses the
educational program implemented at an institution and the model
of partnership between the parent and educator/teacher. Based
on research of educators'attitudes on a sample of 274 examinees,
the authoress states that there still are attitudes, and that possibly
in the educational process there still is misunderstanding and
conservatism with regard to the educator's authoritarian behavior
in education, as well as to his underestimating of cooperation and
partnership with parents.
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Hrčak ID:
32367
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Publication date:
1.7.1995.
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