DIMENSIONING OF STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL WORK IN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT – FROM COMENIUS TO STREAM –

Abstract

Quality in education has always been an imperative and a challenge for all educational systems. The development of educational theories and the advancement of practice should move in parallel and in step together with the aim of creating conditions for increasing the quality of education. In that context, new solutions are offered that will primarily be aimed at increasing the efficiency of the educational process, increased effectiveness and resultativeness in work. This, on the other hand, should produce new innovative solutions and creative opportunities that will be in the function of successful work and a happy life in future. One of those solutions is the stream strategy. Our attention in the paper is focused on several questions: Why this strategy, what it contains and what it refers to, how it is developing and what enables its application today in conditions of the existence of two worlds, real and virtual. Guided by the phrase that we must know the past in order to understand the present and plan the future, the focus of attention in this paper is directed towards the historical dimensioning of learning strategies in educational work, starting from Comenius to the present, to Stream - a strategy from the aspect of essence, meaning, basis and effects of application. Studies of the issue from this perspective lead to the conclusion that the values of the stream approach in modern educational work have a long history in their genesis in respective segments, but that it is also a solid foundation for a multitude of new challenges that will not only enrich the scientific and professional thesaurus but will also initiate new creative and efficient solutions for higher quality education.