Zavičajne vrijednosti kao poticaj cjelovitom razvoju učenika mlađe dob

Abstract

If one’s point of departure are the contents of the culture and the natural heritage surrounding die pupil it is assumed that the puiI and his needs are at the center of the process of learning and that the acquisition of knowledge is a multidimensional process whose aim is the understanding “of the enviroment as one’s own space within which one can work and develop”. Introducing the pupil into die cultural and social enviroment gives him a productive role because they are not mere spectators of past and present events within their enviroments but creative interpreters who reach conclusions, project ideas, create, construct the reality surrounding them. The process of education arises out of the activity of the pupils diemselves, their ideas about how they should act in the future. A knowledge of the past emanating front the homeland is very important in the preparartion of youth for the pluralistic society in which we would like to see ourselves. If they are properly articulated, historical and cultural contents from earliest years offer insights into one’s own heritage and the all human values without which no individual or community would be able to survive. Teaching practice offers numberless opportunities and that is why it is a source of new ideas and specific articulations. The modern methodology of teaching prefers new forms of doing things, stresses multiculturalism but a multiculturalism deeply enrooted in the national tradition. Today more than in earlier periods we must in full consciousness educate the youth in those vlues which will give them the moral fiber to live and survive.