Nada Turnsek

• PhD sociology of culture
• Researcher at University of Ljubljana

In the last decades, two important ideas have triggered substantial changes in the approaches to early childhood education in the Western world, including values education. First, according to Malaguzzi, the child is a rich person from the very beginning, using several communication tools (languages) and searching for the meaning of life. And secon...

Since the spring of 2014, the authors of this article, joined by a wider group of students, have been dedicated to researching vulnerable families and their involvement with education systems. In the initial phase, we explored the experiences and challenges that these families face and how they understand and address these challenges. Next, we were...

Problems in vulnerable families are multilayered and include the intersection of physical, psychosocial and other forms of distress. The multidimensional nature of the problems of these families is closely linked to the fact that there are many institutions in the field of education, social welfare, health care and others, in which treatment and su...

With the new paradigm of the sociology of childhood the traditional notion of childhood as a developmental phenomenon has been replaced by the recognition of childhood as an integral part of society and culture rather than simply an antecedent, and by the need for children to be regarded as significant contributors to our society and culture. The c...

The present study is based on a quasi-experimental research design and presents the results of an evaluation of Antidiscrimination and Diversity Training that took place at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana, rooted in the anti-bias approach to educating diversity and equality issues (Murray & Urban, 2012). The experimental group included 52 in-...

The article presents the findings of the comparative survey on attitudes (beliefs, preferences) of 222 Slovenian and 230 Finnish early childhood teachers (Turnsek 2005). They have completed the questionnaire on aspect of democratisation of early childhood education, which consisted of attitude (Likart) scales and questions of ranking the preference...

This comparative study presents data emerging from a survey on the values and attitudes of the nationals of European countries (World Values Survey, European Social Survey). From a list of children's characteristics (independence, religious faith, thrift, unselfishness, imagination, hard work, responsibility, tolerance/respect for others, obedience...

The Red Beach, by B.Đukanović International Magazine for Educational Sciences and Practice Evaluation of the internal effectiveness of elementary special education for children with learning disabilities Dear Reader, We are happy to reach to you with a new issue of the Magazine 007, bringing further insight into developments in education internatio...

Children's participation – their involvement in creating their life in kindergarten and making decisions about things that concern them – is a key principle of democratic early childhood education. The Slovene early childhood curriculum (Kurikulum za vrtce, 1999), adopted within the context of an independent state and democratic political system, s...