Directions of improving the quality of in-service teacher training in Serbia: the perspective of primary school teachers

dc.creator	Stanković Dejan
dc.creator	Đerić Ivana
dc.creator	Milin Vladeta
dc.date	2013-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:31:21Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:31:21Z
dc.identifier	10.2298/ZIPI1301086S
dc.identifier	0579-6431
dc.identifier	1820-9270
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/81b6b04707f14be892e541351e618033
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/31072
dc.description	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. [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]
dc.language	Serbian
dc.publisher	Institut za pedagoška istraživanja
dc.relation	http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2013/0579-64311301086S.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 45, Iss 1, Pp 86-107 (2013)
dc.subject	in-service teacher training
dc.subject	professional development
dc.subject	teachers
dc.subject	educational change
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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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	Directions of improving the quality of in-service teacher training in Serbia: the perspective of primary school teachers
dc.type	article