Zbornik Instituta za pedagoska istrazivanja 2013 Volume 45, Issue 1, Pages: 86-107
https://doi.org/10.2298/ZIPI1301086S
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Directions of improving the quality of in-service teacher training in Serbia: the perspective of primary school teachers
Stanković Dejan (Institut za pedagoška istraživanja, Beograd)
Đerić Ivana (Institut za pedagoška istraživanja, Beograd)
Milin Vladeta (Institut za pedagoška istraživanja, Beograd)
This paper presents one part of the findings of a research that deals with
teachers’ perceptions of educational reforms in Serbia. More specifically,
the paper focuses on the segment of the research that was aimed at exploring
teachers’ views on the ways of improving the system and practice of
in-service teacher training. Pursuing this topic is very important since the
findings of recent studies have shown that this aspect of education system
needs considerable improvement, while the authors who deal with educational
change point to the importance of consulting the teachers in the development
of the new system solutions. The questionnaire was used to collect the data
from 326 teachers from 125 Serbian primary schools. The teachers provided
answers to open-ended questions on what needs to be done in order to improve
the quality of their in-service training. Content analysis was used to
process the data - response categories were created inductively on the basis
of teachers’ answers, and then their frequency was established. The results
indicate that, according to teachers, in-service teacher training has to be
improved, primarily through increased funding, higher quality of
programmes/seminars, diversification of types of training, as well as through
creating a more encouraging system and school setting for in-service teacher
training. These results are significant from the aspect of the in-service
training system since they point to developmental priorities, as well as to
the necessity of a more complex and comprehensive approach to the reform of
this segment of education system.
Keywords: in-service teacher training, professional development, teachers, educational change
Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike
Srbije, br. 47008: Predstave o obrazovnim promenama u Srbiji - refleksije o
prošlosti, vizije budućnosti čiju realizaciju finansira Švajcarska agencija
za razvoj i saradnju, Unapređivanje kvaliteta i dostupnosti obrazovanja u
procesima modernizacije Srbije i br. 179034: Od podsticanja inicijative,
saradnje i stvaralaštva u obrazovanju do novih uloga i identiteta u društvu