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Education for Democratic Citizenship: From Policy to Effective Practice through Quality Assurance. Stocktaking in Southeast Europe. Country Report: Croatia.

The project on Quality Assurance in Education for Democratic Citizenship was carried out in Croatia by the Research and Training Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Citizenship of the Faculty of Philosophy University of Zagreb from May to July 2003. Its aim was to collect data on policy, legislative, theory and practice of key aspects of quality assurance system in education for democratic citizenship in the context of education reform. The task was performed through interviews and focus-group discussions with the representatives of the Ministry of Education and Sport (MoES) and local governments, national advisory and research institutions, faculties and teachers’ colleges, teacher professional organisations and trade unions, elementary and secondary school principals and teachers, and relevant NGOs. A total of 70 persons from Zagreb, Slavonia and Istria were contacted, 48 of whom accepted to take part in research. Over three fourth of respondents were interviewed in situ individually, in pairs or in a focus-group of four or five, while one fourth responded in written form by fax or email. The duration of in situ individual interviews was between 2 and 3 hours and of the focus-groups approximately 5 hours. The data thus collected make an exquisite 570-page account on how education reform and the introduction of education for democratic citizenship, in general, and the emergence of quality assurance system, in particular, are understood and practiced by a wide range of stockholders in the field. Their answers were in the present report combined with the results of analysis of legal, policy/strategic and other relevant texts so as to ensure better understanding of a dynamic nature of relations between the priorities (should) and realities (is) of contemporary education changes in Croatia.

education for democratic citizenship; evaluation; quality assurance; Croatia

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