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Ivana Paula Gortan - Carlin, Lorena Lazariæ, REGIONAL CULTURAL AWARENESS ...
Furthermore, preserving its regional richness and particularity is also an aim, keeping in
mind the importance of cooperation with the environment, institutions, associations, cities
and municipalities supporting educational institutions.3
The programme of Regional Activities started to be implemented in kindergartens in 2014,
while in primary schools it started a year later, in the school year 2015/2016. The
programme proposal comprises first to eight grade pupils attending the compulsory
primary school education and it was prepared by the Working Group for the conduction
and implementation of the project. The project includes aims, tasks, learning outcomes
and suggests teaching units which will help both teachers and expert associates in schools
in the conduction of the Programme. In the 2016/2017 school year regional education was
also accepted by some secondary schools in Istria.
At the level of the Republic of Croatia, in the August of 2014, the Ministry of Science,
Education and Sport accepted the Programme of Intercurricular and Interdisciplinary
Contents of Citizenship Education in Primary and Secondary Schools (hereinafter:
Citizenship Education) which started to be conducted in the 2014/2015 school year. The
Programme states that it is possible to incorporate regional education in contents where
culture and creativity are linked to the freedom of participating in both cultural life and in
discussions about the contribution of different cultures to the world’s cultural heritage
(2014). Citizenship Education contents are part of compulsory implementation (15 hours a
year out of 35 hours)4 as part of intercurricular contents belonging to school subjects:
Croatian language, Music, Art, Foreign languages, Mathematics, Science, Physical
education, Religious education and expert associates’ programmes. It is, though, an issue
of integrating and correlating contents with the aim of developing the curricular and
citizenship competency at the same time.
The units and topics part of the subject Music are: Music as the symbol of cultural values
of the national, European and world culture, Croatian and Croatian national minorities’
traditional music, Folklore music, Meeting the native land – a visit to the museum
collection. In the fourth grade of primary school there is a mention of a research and design
of a report about innovators, discoverers and meritorious citizens in their region or wider,
as well as getting to know the dances of our region and a visit to cultural-artistic societies
of our town (Gortan - Carlin, Radiæ, 2016).
Methodology
Research aim and hypothesis
All the previously mentioned shows that the predispositions for the implementation of
regional education into preschool and school institutions of the Republic of Croatia exist,
3 The institutionalization of regional education in the County of Istria, http://www.za-nas.hr/uvodnik
(accessed 29 April 2017)
4 The number of hours denotes the integration and correlation of contents, not an increment in the number of
hours.
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Furthermore, preserving its regional richness and particularity is also an aim, keeping in
mind the importance of cooperation with the environment, institutions, associations, cities
and municipalities supporting educational institutions.3
The programme of Regional Activities started to be implemented in kindergartens in 2014,
while in primary schools it started a year later, in the school year 2015/2016. The
programme proposal comprises first to eight grade pupils attending the compulsory
primary school education and it was prepared by the Working Group for the conduction
and implementation of the project. The project includes aims, tasks, learning outcomes
and suggests teaching units which will help both teachers and expert associates in schools
in the conduction of the Programme. In the 2016/2017 school year regional education was
also accepted by some secondary schools in Istria.
At the level of the Republic of Croatia, in the August of 2014, the Ministry of Science,
Education and Sport accepted the Programme of Intercurricular and Interdisciplinary
Contents of Citizenship Education in Primary and Secondary Schools (hereinafter:
Citizenship Education) which started to be conducted in the 2014/2015 school year. The
Programme states that it is possible to incorporate regional education in contents where
culture and creativity are linked to the freedom of participating in both cultural life and in
discussions about the contribution of different cultures to the world’s cultural heritage
(2014). Citizenship Education contents are part of compulsory implementation (15 hours a
year out of 35 hours)4 as part of intercurricular contents belonging to school subjects:
Croatian language, Music, Art, Foreign languages, Mathematics, Science, Physical
education, Religious education and expert associates’ programmes. It is, though, an issue
of integrating and correlating contents with the aim of developing the curricular and
citizenship competency at the same time.
The units and topics part of the subject Music are: Music as the symbol of cultural values
of the national, European and world culture, Croatian and Croatian national minorities’
traditional music, Folklore music, Meeting the native land – a visit to the museum
collection. In the fourth grade of primary school there is a mention of a research and design
of a report about innovators, discoverers and meritorious citizens in their region or wider,
as well as getting to know the dances of our region and a visit to cultural-artistic societies
of our town (Gortan - Carlin, Radiæ, 2016).
Methodology
Research aim and hypothesis
All the previously mentioned shows that the predispositions for the implementation of
regional education into preschool and school institutions of the Republic of Croatia exist,
3 The institutionalization of regional education in the County of Istria, http://www.za-nas.hr/uvodnik
(accessed 29 April 2017)
4 The number of hours denotes the integration and correlation of contents, not an increment in the number of
hours.
119
