Objectives and competences
Student:
• acquires and understands factors and processes influencing educational work at school,
• gets to know contemporary educational approaches and strategies and forms a critical attitude towards these.
Content (Syllabus outline)
• Introduction to the subject and definition of basic principles
• Education/discipline in the context of children’s rights and human rights
• Formal and informal methods of educating/disciplining in educational institutions
• Discipline models: comparison, practicability and critique
• Basics and principles of discipline approach
• Preventive, supportive and corrective discipline
• The role and importance of students active participation in educational-disciplinary questions
• School and problem of violence
Learning and teaching methods
• Higher education lecture,
• discussion,
• problem solving,
• case studies,
cooperative and individual learning.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
• Understands and analyses the educational dimension of institutional education.
• Knows features and regulations and understands the purpose of planning for education/discipline in school.
• identifies and critically evaluates education-theoretical approaches and theoretical principles in the formation of the educational concept in school.
• Understands and evaluates the importance of the discipline approach as an integral part of the educational concept in school.
• Compares and evaluates specifics of preventive, supportive and corrective discipline.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Communication skills,
usage of IT,
combined use of different skills for solution of practical problems
team work.
Readings
Ayers, H, Gray, F (2002): Vodenje razreda, Priročnik za učitelje, Educy, Ljubljana.
Jones V. F., Jones S. J. (2005): Comprehensive classroom management: Creating communities of support and solving problems, Allyn and Bacon, Boston.
Devjak, T., ur. (2007): Pravila in vzgojno delovanje šole, Evropski socialni sklad, Ljubljana.
Pšunder, M. (2004): Disciplina v sodobni šoli, ZRSŠ, Ljubljana.
Pušnik, M. (1999): Vrstniško nasilje v šolah, ZRSŠ, Ljubljana.
Tauber, T. R. (2007): Classroom management: Sound theory & effective practice, Praeger, London.
