Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2001-1
SLOVENIA
Gerbiceva 62
1000 Ljubljana
Tel.: +3861 4201240
Fax: +3861 4201266
Internat: http://www2.arnes.si/~ulpeins/presentation.htm
Management: Jenez Justin (director)
Year of foundation: 1965/ 1995
Historical development: The Educational Research Institute was
established in 1965 by the government of the Republic of Slovenia as an
institute devoted to the study of education. From 1970 the ERI was associated
with the University of Ljubljana until 1995 when with an act of the Government
of Slovenia ERI obtained the status of the public research institution and thus
became an independent research foundation.
Financing: Almost all fundings are obtained from funded research. The
regular budget, mainly for the working of the Institute comes from the Ministry
of Science and Technology. Applied and developmental research is partly or
wholly financed by national agencies, foundations and other organizations.
Main fields:
* training and post-graduate education of researchers, consultation and the
dissemination of the results of research work,
* research in the fields which are strategically important for Slovenia,
* organisation of seminars, professional meetings and international
conferences,
* co-operation of the associates of the Institute in graduate and
post-graduate pedagogic work,
* inclusion in international research activities.
* National research programme
Research: Educational research programme (1999 - 2004):
The programme covers a diverse range of studies, from fundamental
interdisciplinary studies in the field of social sciences and the humanities to
applied and empirical subjects. The primary group of topics concerns the
development of fundamental disciplines such as philosophy, pedagogy, sociology,
psychology, linguistics and anthropology, all with sub-disciplines and
interdisciplinary cross-sections. Studies are conducted with interaction of the
recapitulation of foreign concepts and the development of our own basic concepts
within the framework of educational theory. They represent diachronic and
synchronic analyses of basic concepts of the philosophy of education (paideia,
humanitas, Bildung, education, doctrina, etc), as well as education and care
(aims, values, means and goals, virtues, impartiality and equality in education,
democratic nature of the educational system, school and human and children's
rights, autonomy, freedom and restraint, knowledge, learning, education and
indoctrination, etc).
The other part of the programme focuses on the applied level, i.e. the
development and application of research methodologies which ought to contribute
to an extremely precise insight into the ongoing processes, as well as to the
formulation of goals of interventions concerning change. Starting from questions
regarding the role of the family, and continuing with investigations in the
field of pre-school and school education, revealing and analysing various
factors of the quality of education, the longitudinal monitoring of factors over
extended periods of time makes it possible to contribute to a higher quality
education, to pluralisation on the level of programmes, organisational forms,
contents and methods of work. We pay particular attention to the staffing
requirements concerning teachers in the educational system. The research results
provide references for the educational policy for pulling those levers which
ensure a high-quality level of occupation of teaching positions in schools, with
adequately trained teaching staff. Global multinational research within the IEA
association in longitudinal perspective provides valuable comparative findings
on the operation of the educational system, which, among other things, represent
the starting-point for the national evaluation of the quality of educational
processes and for establishing problems and dilemmas in educational practice.
Publications/ papers: The Educational Research Institute publishes
scientific works resulting from formal research undertaken at the Institute,
theoretical and empirical papers contributing to the development of educational
theory, and discussion articles on research topics.
"The School Field", an international journal of theory and research
in education, published twice a year as a two double issue in Ljubljana,
Slovenia. The aim of the journal is to situate the issue of education and its
practices in the context of contemporary theoretical debates by questioning its
usual boundaries, and to discuss general conceptions that correspond to current
social changes and the development of educational theory.
Library: The library of the Educational Research Institute has the
status of a public library and carries out loan, purchase and cataloguing of
professional literature, and at the same time supplies additional professional
literature required for research work. It provides information services, such as
direct search of the contents of external libraries, CD-ROM databases, access to
mutual information sources, inter-library loans, and keeps bibliographies of
research staff. At present, the Library of the Institute holds about 6,500 books
and documents, and receives 60 journals on education and social sciences
regularly.
Journal Socialno Delo
Place of publication: Ljubljana
Publication dates: six parts a year (bimonthly, starting February, new
form since 1993)
Published by: University of Ljubljana School of Social Work
University of Ljubljana, School of Social Work
Topniska 33
1000 Ljubljana
Tel.: +3861 14377615
Fax: +3861 14377122
E-mail: socialno.delo@Uni-Lj.si
Internet: http://www.vssd.uni-lj.si/SD/ENG/index.htm
Editor- in-chief: Bogdan Lesnik
Subject area:Theoretical papers, reports on social work, sociology
anthropology, psychology, women studies
Headings: articles, essays, reports, book reviews, documents
The journal appears in Slovene. It contains English abstracts and contents.
Contents of Vol. 39 (2000), Part 6 as an example:
Articles
Zavirsek, D.; Skerjanc, J.: Analysis of the position of excluded
social groups in Slovenia and proposals for the decrease of their exclusions in
the system of social care:
Research report
Kacic, M.: Communication, action and counselling in interaction with
the blind and weak-sighted
Ivajnsic, St.:Social worker and the aged person
Book review
E. D. Rothblum, L. A. Bond (1996), Preventing Heterosexism and Homophobia.
Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications (Miha Lobnik)
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