Tomislav Topolovčan

• PhD
• Associate Professor PhD at University of Zagreb

Povijest pedagogije, hrvatskoga školstva i učiteljstva proučava se i valorizira u odnosu na suvremene koncepte znanosti. Proučavanje i analiza arhivske građe svaki put nas iznova vraća na „pravi put“ i daje mogućnost revalorizacije uvriježenih činjenica u izvorima koji su parafrazirali izvornu građu. Uslijed nenamjernih mogućih pogrješaka unutar na...

U radu se povijesnim, teorijsko-komparativnim i hermeneutičkim metodološkim pristupom kritički opisuju, analiziraju, sistematiziraju i rekapituliraju obilježja, aspiracije i razvoj učiteljstva i školstva u kontekstu društvenih okolnosti u Hrvatskoj od donošenja Prvoga školskog zakona 1874. do kraja Prvoga svjetskog rata 1918. godine. Pokazalo se ka...

U radu je hermeneutičkim, povijesnim i teorijsko-komparativnim metodološkim pristupom kritički elaborirana uloga umjetne inteligencije u cjeloživotnom učenju. Smjer razvoja umjetne inteligencije neminovno donosi promjene u razmatranju učenja time više jer digitalno doba od pojedinca očekuje ovladavanje najnovijim tehnologijama što implicira na prop...

The Waldorf school has existed for more than a hundred years. There are over athousand of Waldorf schools around the world. Due to its pedagogical and didacticfeatures and the ideas of the founder Rudolf Steiner, it is intriguing, both for parents and(non)experts. Since this is an alternative free school, it is epistemologically interestingto use a...

Područne osnovne škole i nastava u kombiniranim razrednim odjelima specifični su po mnogim školskim i didaktičko-metodičkim obilježjima. Stoga je cilj ove etnografske, naturalističke i fenomenološke studije slučaja triangulacijom kvalitativnih metoda ispitati karakteristike nastave u kombiniranim razrednim odjelima u jednoj područnoj školi te istra...

U radu su teorijsko-komparativnim i povijesnim metodološkim pristupom kritičkielaborirana obilježja novih (digitalnih) medija, individualizirane nastave ipersonaliziranog učenja. Analiziran je odnos koncepata i definicija individualiziranenastave i personaliziranog učenja. Podrobnije su analizirane didaktičkemogućnosti nastave uz upotrebu novih med...

Druga polovina 19. i prva desetljeća 20. st. u svijetu, a ponajprije u Europi, bili su perforirani turbulentnim društvenim, kulturnim, gospodarskim, tehnološkim, vojnim i političkim intervencijama, promjenama i inovacijama. Između ostalog, bio je značajan i međunarodni pokret za ženska prava i društvenu ravnopravnost žena. Reperkusije tih turbulenc...

Teorijsko-komparativnim i povijesnim metodološkim pristupom dekonstruirana je geneza medijske didaktike s ciljem dobivanja uvida u njenu povijest, obilježja, definiranje discipline i recentne trendove razvoja. U studiji je elaborirana uloga medija u obrazovanju, školovanju, nastavi, učenju i poučavanju. Sustavno je objašnjena anatomija društvenih o...

Osmo poglavlje ove znanstvene monografije kroz ekstenzivan pregled relevantnih istraživanja sagledava nastavničku profesiju i nastavu kroz moguće trendove i scenarije budućnosti.

Through the prism of educational rights for everybody and the inclusion of all participants in the teaching process, creative university teaching is considered to be the dominant field. Insufficient participation of students with disabilities in the university context also testifies to the still insufficiently recognized social aspect of inclusion....

The aim of the research was to examine the methodological and thematic trends in scientific periodicals in the field of pedagogy. Two Croatian journals for education, Život i škola and Napredak in the period from 2012 to 2017, were analysed. A total of 370 articles were analysed, 143 from Napredak and 227 from Život i škola. The research results in...

On the basis of the analysis of the general characteristics of alternative schools and the methodology of pedagogical research, the comparison and synthesis of the obtained facts were formed. It is pointed out that in the field of pedagogy, the adoption of (positivist) methodology has become a global trend. It emphasizes the uncritical application...

The Global Initiative, which has been promoting, for many years, the principles of the inclusive approach at all levels of education, is particularly considered important in the university context. Through the prism of educational rights for everybody, and the inclusion of all participants of the teaching process, creative university teaching is co...

This paper critically analyses the features of research of education in alternative schools with an emphasis on those based on pedagogical, didactic and philosophical ideas formed in the directions and movements of reform pedagogy. In this respect, the possibilities and limitations of the research of Waldorf and Montessori schools, and schools that...

The paper aims to highlight the present trends in pedagogy, using a six-year analysis of two of the oldest Croatian journals which publish scientific and professional papers in the area of education. Regarding the published works over the period from 2012 to 2017, the trends have changed in line with the changes that affected our educational system...

The aim of the study was to examine the characteristics and predictor role of goal orientations in learning, schools' level of digital media equipment and the use of digital media in classroom (teaching) quality in lower secondary education (ISCED level 2). The study was conducted on seventh and eighth grade students (N=432) of elementary schools i...

Using a theoretical-critical and historical approach, this paper analyses the implications of the Cold War in national curricula and educational reforms of the second half of the 20th century with emphasis on the 21st century. The context of the time after the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War is shown, as well as the social and po...

The aim of this study was to examine the characteristics of the frequency of constructivist learning and its dimensions, including critical thinking, the differences in them with regard to certain demographic characteristics, and correlations with the frequency of use of certain new media in teaching students in the final grade of lower secondary e...

The aim of this study was to examine the frequency of use and the motivation to use digital media in teaching and in the organisation of constructivist learning, as well as differences between teachers in elementary and secondary school (N=368). The results of the study show that both subgroups of teachers only sometimes or rarely use various digit...

The Net Generation, a generation which grew up with digital media, differs from older generations which entered the world of digital media and the Internet afterwards. The Internet itself opened new possibilities of communication and participation in the sphere of politics as well. Research was conducted among students at the Faculty of Teacher Edu...

This paper provides a critical analysis of art-based research in education, that is, in constructivist learning and teaching. It presents the methodological features and advantages of art-based research in terms of the axiological, ontological and epistemological features of the constructivist, participatory and critical scientific paradigm, and th...

This paper provides a critical analysis of art-based research in education, that is, in constructivist learning and teaching. It presents the methodological features and advantages of art-based research in terms of the axiological, ontological and epistemological features of the constructivist, participatory and critical scientific paradigm, and th...

Škola treba stvarati uvjete za optimalno ostvarivanje mogućnosti svakog učenika. Svi su nastavni predmeti u školskom kurikulumu jednako važni za ostvarivanje i samopotvrđivanje potencijala svakog pojedinca jer, prema teoriji višestrukih inteligencija, svaki je pojedinac u nečemu dobar i ima predispozicije za uspjeh. Ovo je istraživanje posvećeno is...

The aim of this research is to examine the extent to which certain sociodemographic characteristics of students and teachers, along with computer self-efficacy, attitudes towards the new media and the frequency of using the new media in instruction, can be regarded as predictors of constructivist teaching. The research was carried out on a sample o...

Frequent technological changes have started the unstoppable changes in the development of human society. Unlimited access to the information is surely the first and the basic result of these changes. The next change, not less important, happened in the transfer and the presentation of the information and the knowledge. Development of mobile technol...

The aim of this research was to investigate whether particular socio-demographic characteristics of pupils in lower secondary education, their level of computer self-efficacy and motivation for using digital media in class are considered significant pre-dictors of constructivist learning. Furthermore, the aim was to investigate the characteristics...

Despite the understandings that constructivist and multimedia didactics, as well as curricular theory and multiple intelligences theory, have been providing for years, what happens in the classroom and in the teaching process is still mostly teacher-centred. The didactic and methodological scenarios that prevail in our classes are more suitable to...

The aim of this study was to establish whether there are differences between the computer self-efficacy of pupils and teachers (N = 507) in the context of the classroom, as a developing workplace of the teacher in elementary education. The survey covered 184 teachers and 323 pupils in elementary school. The results show that there is no statistical...

The aim of this research is to assess the frequency of learning through the new media and from textbooks at home and in class, and the frequency of learning from exercise books, and the correlation according to the type of school and to the form the students attend. The survey conducted on a sample of secondary school students attending either voca...

The development and use of new media in the class emphasizes independent learning based on the activitiesofthestudents, constructivistlearningand student-centredlessonsin general. Using new media in the class does not prompt more efficient learning and teaching in itself, but can initiate the learning processes by didactically shaping the class wit...

Udžbenik se već dugo promatra kao neizostavan element nastavnog procesa. Učenik, učitelj i udžbenik ključni su čimbenici nastave u osnovnoj i srednjoj školi. No, unatoč njegovoj učestaloj, gotovo neizostavnoj prisutnosti u nastavnom procesu, ostaje nejasno u kojoj mjeri je udžbenik didaktički oblikovan i prilagođen potrebama učenika. Ovaj rad je pr...

Udžbenik je, pored učitelja, najvažniji izvor znanja za učenike. Tijekom školovanja učenicima se nude brojni udžbenici koji im pobliže objašnjavaju nastavne sadržaje i pomažu u stjecanju važnih kompetencija (npr. naučiti kako se uči, naučiti rješavati probleme itd.). Prema tome, učenici su najkompetentniji procjenjivati obilježja i prikladnost udžb...

Uvod Teorije kurikuluma naglašavaju značaj kvalitete učitelja u organizaciji nastave te općenito u organiziranju okruženja učenja. Tako Cindrić, Miljković i Strugar (2010), u kontekstu opisivanja i definiranja vanjskih i unutarnjih uvjeta učenja, u kategoriji vanjskih uvjeta učenja navode: kompetentnost i učiteljevu sposobnost,

The aim of this paper is to show that teaching and learning methods (social work forms) and communication which can be used in traditional in class education can be also implemented in multimedia online distance education. This is possible because of functional opportunities of ICT. The paper presents different types of communication and possible t...

Sažetak U radu se opisuje prepoznatljivost pojedine škole pomoću njenog školskog kurikuluma. Prikazuju se neka obilježja nacionalnog, školskog i nastavnog kurikuluma kojima je moguće planirati i organizirati prepoznatljiv rad i aktivnosti pojedine škole. Prikazuje se prepoznatljivost škole u odnosu na kompetencije učitelja, njihova inicijalnog i cj...