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and this is especially true for Istria since the projects are partly financed by the County of
Istria. Since some of the projects have already begun, the competency of educators and
classroom teachers is especially important for raising awareness of the importance of
creating personal identity through regional elements from an earliest age. Thus, their
mastering the necessary knowledge and skills from the area of cultural heritage would also
be enhanced.
In line with the research aim, the following hypotheses were assumed:
H1 It is assumed that students, regardless of the county they come from, consider
the introduction of the regional idiom into the educational process as useful.
H2 It is assumed that students who use a dialect in their communication pay
attention to the knowledge of regional heritage.
H3 It is assumed that students coming from Istria have a better knowledge of the
Istrian music regional heritage than students who come to Istria from other parts of
the Republic of Croatia to study.
Participants and research methods
The research was conducted during 2017 on a sample of 272 students attending all study
years of the Undergraduate Specialist Study of Preschool Education and the Integrated
Undergraduate and Graduate University Teacher Study of the Juraj Dobrila University of
Pula. Of the total number, 125 students (46 %) were from Istria, while 147 (54 %) of them
were from other counties. The most represented students were those from the County of
Istria (N = 125; 46 %) and the Primorje – Gorski Kotar County (N = 56; 20.6 %), followed
by the Vukovar – Srijem County (N = 19; 7 %), Virovitica – Podravina County (N = 11;
4 %), Karlovac County (N = 10; 3.7 %) and the remaining counties. Regarding the
territory, the whole Republic of Croatia was included except the Dubrovnik – Neretva
County. The research was conducted taking into account the descriptive and the causal –
nonexperimental methods of pedagogical researches.
Research instrument
The keynote of the survey was the students’ regional cultural awareness and its aim was to
study their attitude about the importance of the regional cultural heritage, especially
music.
A measurement instrument (regional cultural awareness) consisting of five questions was
designed for the needs of the research: three open-ended questions regarding general
information on the students (sex, region of birth/county, the dialect they know) and two
subscales:
a) Subscale for the estimation of the frequency of using dialects in communication
– 3 items;
b) Subscale for the estimation of the regional cultural heritage importance – 4
items.
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and this is especially true for Istria since the projects are partly financed by the County of
Istria. Since some of the projects have already begun, the competency of educators and
classroom teachers is especially important for raising awareness of the importance of
creating personal identity through regional elements from an earliest age. Thus, their
mastering the necessary knowledge and skills from the area of cultural heritage would also
be enhanced.
In line with the research aim, the following hypotheses were assumed:
H1 It is assumed that students, regardless of the county they come from, consider
the introduction of the regional idiom into the educational process as useful.
H2 It is assumed that students who use a dialect in their communication pay
attention to the knowledge of regional heritage.
H3 It is assumed that students coming from Istria have a better knowledge of the
Istrian music regional heritage than students who come to Istria from other parts of
the Republic of Croatia to study.
Participants and research methods
The research was conducted during 2017 on a sample of 272 students attending all study
years of the Undergraduate Specialist Study of Preschool Education and the Integrated
Undergraduate and Graduate University Teacher Study of the Juraj Dobrila University of
Pula. Of the total number, 125 students (46 %) were from Istria, while 147 (54 %) of them
were from other counties. The most represented students were those from the County of
Istria (N = 125; 46 %) and the Primorje – Gorski Kotar County (N = 56; 20.6 %), followed
by the Vukovar – Srijem County (N = 19; 7 %), Virovitica – Podravina County (N = 11;
4 %), Karlovac County (N = 10; 3.7 %) and the remaining counties. Regarding the
territory, the whole Republic of Croatia was included except the Dubrovnik – Neretva
County. The research was conducted taking into account the descriptive and the causal –
nonexperimental methods of pedagogical researches.
Research instrument
The keynote of the survey was the students’ regional cultural awareness and its aim was to
study their attitude about the importance of the regional cultural heritage, especially
music.
A measurement instrument (regional cultural awareness) consisting of five questions was
designed for the needs of the research: three open-ended questions regarding general
information on the students (sex, region of birth/county, the dialect they know) and two
subscales:
a) Subscale for the estimation of the frequency of using dialects in communication
– 3 items;
b) Subscale for the estimation of the regional cultural heritage importance – 4
items.
120
