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Cross-cultural management in primary school trought international programmes and educational methods

Knowledge about value of investing into education had already been acquired in Europe and throughout developed world. Globalization is present in all parts of life and business and therefore in formal, non-formal and informal education. In Europe, there is an effort to establish collective standards of public school systems. Knowledge has become one of the most important economy resources. Attitude towards knowledge determines the future of the individual, the group and the society. Countries in transition (Croatia is also one of them) have necessity for structural changes of educational system. Knowledge is the factor on which Croatian citizens should build their welfare today, but also the factor on which they will create competition on European and world market in the future. The necessity of learning for the whole life shows that having only formal education is not enough – non-formal and informal education are needed as well. From present perspective, after finishing formal education student should expect several careers during his/her working life, and within one career several different jobs. In order to be successful, it would be necessary to study and improve one’ s knowledge entire lifetime. Indirectly, in Croatian school system are included more than 20% of citizens. When student’ s parents, tutors, and adult education are added, we calculate that more than 50% of Croatian citizens are indirectly interested in quality education. Throughout the world and Europe international knowledge standards and cooperation between schools are being developed. It is necessary to emphasize the importance of international cooperation in educational system of Croatia. Member States of the Europe cooperate through “ open coordination method” – they have developed collective base of relevant statistic pieces of information. New educational programmes which enable students to integrate into the multicultural Europe have been developed. The importance is also given to the cross-cultural education which aims at understanding of differences, specific values, traditions, and some other features and characteristics of different societies and at opening human mind to cultural differences. In this thesis there are two examples of international cooperation in education. The first is European Studies Programme in “ Druga osnovna škola” (“ Second Primary School” ) from Vukovar, and the second is UNESCO programme in primary school “ Tin Ujević” from Osijek. For the successful realization of modern educational concepts, the modern information-communication technology (ICT) is needed. ICT should be used for E-learning which requires developed global information infrastructure and high level of informatic literacy. Croatian educational system needs permanent changing, adapting and innovating.

Management, Educational Methods, Cross-cultural, Internationale Programmes

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