Ružica Vuk

Zoran Curić

 

METODOLOŠKA PITANJA U ISTRAŽIVANJIMA NASTAVNIČKIH KOMPETENCIJA

 

DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2014.3.117

UDC: 371.3[001.8:911-057](497.5)

Abstract: The paper presents results of research on competences accomplished during university study in several aspects of teaching work, according to the masters of education of geography opinion. The research included 30 apprentice teachers and volunteers educated according to Bologna programmes, as well as 230 teachers educated according to pre-Bologna programmes. One fourth of all persons questioned find the level of acquired knowledge and skills during geography (university) study insufficient for successful teaching work, less of one third of all persons questioned find it sufficient, one third is very satisfied, and only 15 percent find it to be excellent. The average assessment of the level of acquired competences is 3.3. Not one of teaching work areas the persons questioned did not evaluate with „insufficient“ or „excellent“; that shows that the curriculum structure is satisfactory for the education of the masters of Bologna programmes has been realized. On the other hand, the relation between the domains in this structure demands interventions with the goal of strengthening outgoing competences of teaching programmes students at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Univeristy of Zagreb. The questioned persons evaluate that their competences to be a form-master (the average level of evaluation is 2.3) and to work with pupils with special needs (the average level of evaluation 3.0) – especially to work with ones that have emotional and behavioural handicap, are the lowest. The highest level of evaluation (4.2) was given to the development of professional competences and competences for realization of educative goals and values in teaching process (4.0). According to the average level of evaluation, the development of competences for planning and preparing teaching work (3.7) and the development of key competence to learn how to study (3.6) can be seen as satisfactory ones.The conducted research gives important guidelines for outlining the methodology of transverse and longitude researches of curriculum components, especially of the initial education curriculum, as well as certain action researches in education. In future researches the assessments of accomplished competences have been verified, with the type of school in which the competences have been verified, with the average university study grade and with the grade of certain subjects (in geography, related sciences, teaching methodology and to teaching methodology substratum sciences).

Keywords: teachers competences, education research methodology, geography teaching, teachers education curriculum

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