Serbian public opinion on child imagination and its correlates

dc.creator	Maksić Slavica
dc.creator	Pavlović Zoran
dc.date	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:07:25Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:07:25Z
dc.identifier	10.2298/ZIPI0801007M
dc.identifier	0579-6431
dc.identifier	1820-9270
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/f4cba70713294acba4914a416b5e6825
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/11194
dc.description	Child imagination is considered in developmental theories as a desirable precondition for later creative production, though in everyday use, imagination is viewed as fantasy, unreal, not practical and not important. The topic of interest in this paper is public opinion of imagination as the quality that can be encouraged to learn at home and the factors which influence this opinion. The data for the analysis were collected from the Third and Fourth Wave of World Values Survey. The findings suggest that imagination has a very low status among other child qualities which have to be supported. The increase in interest for imagination in the world and in Europe between the Third and Fourth Wave of the survey can indicate larger compliance with the actual demands of educational reform for democratization of education and encouragement of creativity of the young. Stagnation of child imagination status in the opinion of Serbian respondents is understandable in the framework of social crisis which happened at the time when the survey was conducted. The preference of imagination is positively correlated with respondents' postmaterialist orientation and educational level, but negatively with their age. The implications of findings for nurturing creativity in formative period are discussed. It is concluded that the school is invited to offer special programs to compensate for public opinion effects.
dc.language	Serbian
dc.publisher	Institut za pedagoška istraživanja
dc.relation	http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2008/0579-64310801007M.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/0579-6431
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1820-9270
dc.source	Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoška Istraživanja, Vol 40, Iss 1, Pp 7-21 (2008)
dc.subject	imagination
dc.subject	child
dc.subject	World Values Survey
dc.subject	public opinion
dc.subject	education
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Serbian public opinion on child imagination and its correlates
dc.type	article