godište II   |   broj 2  |   Zagreb |   21.1.2002. | 

Prof. dr. sc. Jadranka Damjanov
 

A New Approach to Education
 

Abstract

The new approach to education we are advocating is inspired by everyday failures of the traditional approach. It is based also on our scientific investigations! The implication of the investigations is that education must  make conscious what we perceive and train the educators to find ways and means how to achieve it effortlessly an effectively.

Since 1992, there exist a Free School of a workshop type in the Centre for Culture and Education “Zagreb”. Students of the art history at the Faculty of Arts and Academy of Arts are trained according to this new approach in the subject of How to teach art appreciation (Methodology of Art). Since 1998. some subjects (which I teach and the student voluntarily choose) are held on that way (this year: Paleolithic panting). Students in small groups are gathered in workshops and the results are excellent.

The new approach may be found in books (see: J.D.: Art Adventure, in first place) and now on the web like:  http://msp.fsb.hr - Methodic syntagms and paradigms. Because the members of the group Avangarde (11 grammar school teachers) whom we work together are also the student tutors, so the coordination between the Faculty and the Grammar schools makes the new approach in praxis more efficient.

In our opinion, the new informatic instruments can be really revolutionary if they are prepared. The maximum of individualisation and of activating from one side and the interactive communication from the other side, are that achievements of workshop type of education which are functioning by themselves also, but could be welcomed, we hope, by informatic revolution too. Ivan Bogavčić tried to show in his M A. that the new approach is not only a fashionable thing but a real pattern staying behind.
 

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