Воспитание / Vospitanie - Journal of Educational Sciences, Theory and Practice

PLAY AS AN ACTIVITY FOR FORMING ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

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As an independent children's activity, play is formed during the upbringing and education of children and it contributes to their assimilation of experience through human activity. As a form of organizing the life of children in kindergartens, play is important because it serves to form the child's psyche and personality. The main function of play is developmental: it increases intelligence, contributes to the sensory perception of the world and emotional well-being of the child. Therefore, in addition to all other types of activities, play is of primary importance in preschool childhood. Preschool age is considered the classic age of play.

In the area of environmental education, ways are currently being sought to introduce elements of different types of games into the teaching process of preschool children so that they form a conscious and correct attitude towards nature and towards themselves as a part of it. The relationship between children's play (games) and other activities and the formation of ideas about nature is an issue that is poorly explored in science and disorganized in practice. Children of preschool age are happy to participate in theatrical games. By depicting different heroes (animals, birds), children get to know the natural world that surrounds them through images, colors, and sounds.

The paper will present several games with environmental messages implemented in preschool institutions in Štip, North Macedonia, as activities that develop environmental awareness among preschool children.

Per violence in elementary school

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In the article, we discuss peer violence as a current problem that we face in regular elementary schools. First, we will define the concept of violence and what types of violence we know. We will pay special attention to one type of violence; we will elaborate on peer violence. The topic of peer violence has been particularly relevant in recent years, as the study of peer violence is changing due to the increased sensitivity of people to this issue, and there is also an increasing interest in researching peer violence, which enables more appropriate detection and prevention of violence. Being informed when dealing with this kind of violence is essential if we want to provide students with a safe and pleasant school environment. That's why we decided to check which types of peer violence are most common in regular primary schools. We were interested in who most often perpetrates violence, who are the most frequent victims, and when and where peer violence is most common. We will present the results of the structured interviews and the results of the survey we conducted among the students. The research is based on a sample of 449 pupils of the city's primary school in Ljubljana. All sections from 1st to 9th grade were covered. Class teachers helped the first-grade students understand the survey, while the rest of the students completed the survey electronically. The conducted research led to the results that various forms of peer violence occur at all ages, most often among students of the same class, when the teacher is not present.

REFLECTION AND SELF-REFLECTION, COMPONENTS OF INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION

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Professional development for teachers, essential to successfully implementing the educational process, is intimately related to the quality of education. Professional growth includes various elements, including academic and educational training, enhancing instructional strategies, increasing emotional intelligence and managing emotions, growth of social and communication abilities, implementation of innovation in education, reflection and self-reflection, and establishing communities and networks for professionals. This paper focuses on reflection, and self-reflection as significant characteristics of teacher’s professional competence.
In the paper, I tried to answer several crucial questions related to the existence of differences between these two concepts; their meaning and role; how they are implemented in the education of future teachers; and the benefits of their application.

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

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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.

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