Metodike u Hrvatskoj
Teaching Methods in Croatia

Author(s): Igor Radeka
Subject(s): Education, State/Government and Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Keywords: pedagogy; didactics; teaching methods; interdisciplinary science; classroom teaching;
Summary/Abstract: Ever since J. F. Herbart established the pedagogical paradigm in the 19th century, and up until the 1980s, the teaching methods in Croatia have been part of the interdisciplinary area of pedagogy, relying on other disciplines apart from pedagogy. General didactics and specific didactics appeared in Croatia before the World War II under the influence of the German cultural milieu. The approach and terminology were changed after the liberation in 1945, under the dominant role of the USSR, so that teaching methods were developed alongside didactics as an integral part of pedagogy. For about forty years now, a group of distinguished Croatian methodology scholars have been advocating a change in the approach to teaching methods and their treatment as separate interdisciplinary fields apart from pedagogy, but also as independent of other disciplines, including the fundamental sciences, the contents of which they are addressing. However, the transition to a separate interdisciplinary science based the new, ongoing paradigm of teaching methods has so far been accepted only within three out of six scholarly disciplines – natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. This lack of recognition in other academic disciplines and the arts is accompanied by a number of issues within the teaching methods – such as their inferior academic standing, poor cooperation with schools as training facilities etc. This paper analyses the position of the teaching methods in Croatia, addressing the causes for their current difficult state.

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