•The New
School Project
was started in 2003 by Nansen Dialogue Centre Osijek, in
cooperation with Education and Teacher Training Agency
of the Republic of Croatia, Osijek branch.Aim
of the project is to establish an integrated primary
school in Vukovar.School's
curriculum will be more adapted to the educational needs
of a multi-ethnic, multicultural society and, at the
same time, school will provide higher quality, as well
as a child-focused education.The
realisation of the project involved all important
stakeholders: teachers living and working in
Vukovar, parents, representatives of City of
Vukovar, representatives of Vukovar-Sirmyum County,
Education and Teacher Training Agency, Coordination
of Minority councils, expert associates, NGOs,
religious leaders.WHY?
The
New School Project was founded as a response to
segregated schools in Vukovar and its region. School is,
along with the family, a basic agens of children’s
socialization, a place where children adopt values and
develop their attitudes.Researches have
shown that children themselves are the ones who are most
inclined to discriminate on the ethnic principles, which
does not contribute to the development of the community
on the long term basis. The researches have also shown that
parents consider the present division as a threat to the
development of the community, therefore they expressed
their worries about the future of their children in the
town of Vukovar.
LATEST
NEWS
Parents' Club "For
the Children of Vukovar"
and Nansen Dialogue Centre Osijek are launching, in
accordance to the Constitutionally guaranteed right to
education, as well as in accordance to rights of
parents and children to choose type and quality of
primary education, following initiative:
INITIATIVE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW SCHOOLsee more...
Campaign – "I want The New School!"Nansen Dialogue Centre in January
starts a campaign named “I want The New School!”The aim of the campaign is to
introduce parents of pre-school and primary school
children, as well as the wider local community of
city of Vukovar, with educational plan and
programme, methods and ways of education, and also
with some extra contents that will be offered to
pupils as a part of their classes at The New School.Additional information about The
New School Project is available at the following
contacts:031 215 474 or 031 206 670
From
the next school year (2007/08) three year pilot
project:
Cultural and Spiritual Heritage of the Region in our
school,starts in
four schools in Vukovarsko-Srijemska County and
Osjecko-Baranja CountyIn May
2007, Education and Teacher Training Agency
(Independent state-funded agency in charge of
primary education)
issued the positive
expert opinion and recommendation for a
Subject Curriculum for Cultural and Spiritual
Heritage of the Region (CSHR).Based
on this recommendation and our firm belief that CSHR
offers a new, fully intercultural approach to
learning about others, but also about oneself, CSHR
was offered to schools in our region that are part
of multicultural communities. Four schools
recognised the potential of such a subject and will
offer it to their pupils from fifth to eight grade
in form of an elective subject.You
can learn more about the project
here.
Series of workshops, with a main topic being responsible
parenting, is completed.
On 8th of February 2007, Nansen Dialogue
Centre and Parents’ Club “For the Children of
Vukovar” started the series of workshops on
responsible parenting. Workshops were held on
Thursdays, every second week at 6.00 pm in premises
of Hotel Dunav in Vukovar, and the facilitator of
these workshops was a psychologist Biljana Mrdović
Varevac.see more...
Study Visit to Norway
"Norwegian
Education System and its Applicability for Croatia"
From 19th
to 24th of May 2007, Nansen Dialogue Centre
organised a study visit for representatives of City
of Vukovar, Vukovarsko-Srijemska County, Education and
Teacher Training Agency, as well as representatives of
parents and teachers involved in The New School project
to Norway. During the course of a study-visit the group
had a series of meetings and visits (primary schools in
Lillehammer and Oslo, other educational institutions,
Teachers’ Union, Norskform, representatives of local
governments…) were they learned more about Norwegian
education system, its characteristic, specifics, but
also issues modern Norwegian education is trying to
address.
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Kraljevine Norveške
Republike
Hrvatske
Podružnica
Osijek
Misija
Europske komisije u
Republici
Hrvatskoj
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