2nd Book of Proceedings - 2008 - GEOGRAPHY CURRICULUM IN NEW EDUCATIONAL PROFILES

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Đurđica Komlenović

Emilija Manić

 

GEOGRAFSKI KURIKULUM U NOVIM OBRAZOVNIM PROFILIMA

 

DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2008.2.167

UDC: 911:371.3(497.11)

Abstract: The development of the society and economy in the past decades has initated changes in vocational education which were implemented through a number of reforms of the entire educational system or its individual segments. The beginning of this century is characterised by a thorough reform of the system of vocational education in Serbia, oriented towards the aquistion of professional competences necessary for getting involved in the increasingly more demanding world of labour, as well as for futher studying and professional training. The key fields of the reform of vocational education refer to the diversification of curriculum and its adjustment to the European standards. In the work field of Economy, law and administration in the new educational profiles, geography curriculum is structured in accordance with the international standards, that is, the demands and needs of the profiles. In the new educational profiles, geography curriculum is implemented through modules as basic program and organisation units. Modules are specific separate packages, that is assemblies of functionally connected knowledge, skills and abilities thath bring about the accomplishment of the define outcomes of studying which are necessary for performing a certain profession or task.

Keywords: vocational education, work field economy, law and administration, geography, modules.

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