The paper analyses changes of understanding and conceptualisation of education linking them to the reforming process of the national system of Education in Slovenia during the period of social transition and after it. The first part is focused at analysing the relationship between school and ideology as well as the role of the concept of human rights in the re-conceptualisation of education. The second part analyses some key dilemmas of the transition period as well as education strategies applied. The concluding part discusses issues and problems of the post-transition period.
COBISS.SI-ID: 8728137
The conference "Cognitive sciences" is the oldest and probably the most important meeting of experts from the wide field of cognitive sciences. This year's conference, organized and steered by Olga Markič, Matjaž Gams and Urban Kordeš, consisted of two parts: general session (with new advances from the field of cognitive science were presented to a wider audience) and topic-specific session (dedicated to the cognitive phenomena of play, aesthetics perception and similar).
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 252779264A broad-based representative study analyzes the perceptions and attitudes of teaching staff and their experience in working with pupils with special needs. Conceptual chapters of the monograph places understandings of deviant behavior in the field of different paradigms of "special" education and provides a platform for further developments in this field in Slovenia.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 250372864The project of preparing the White Paper on Education in the Republic of Slovenia includes theoretical and empirical study of system solutions at the level of compulsory education and the exploration of new system solution induced changes in the system of education in recent years. Set of 15 empirical studies and conceptual work includes review and analysis of the situation in the field of education in the Republic of Slovenia, review and analysis of trends in the field of education in Slovenia and the EU and proposing conceptual and system solutions of the education system in Slovenia.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 8546377National conference on the development of a national program for the area of homelessness, with strong international participation, brought together all relevant sectors of the Slovenian government, practitioners and researchers and created a potential coalition for the development of a national strategy. In it a number of European models of good practice were presented. A special feature of the conference was the creation and performance of the council of the Slovenian homeless people.
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 251306496