School – Possibility or (new) Risk for Young Females in Correctional Institutions

Abstract

In this paper, the authors deal with the education of girls in a Croatian correctional institution as a risk factor for social exclusion based on the data obtained via semi-structured interviews with experts and the girls and via the documentation analysis method. In this regard, the paper deals with two perspectives, i.e. the girls’ and experts’, in the context of risks related to schooling, intertwining these risks through the past, present and future, according to the stories of the research participants. The authors compare the perspectives given and explore the questions related to possibilities of the education of girls in correctional institutions.

Implementation of content related to children’s rights in schools: How to teach them?—perceptions of future teachers in Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia

“…This was also the result of the Report on the Implementation of Child Rights in the Republic of Serbia from the Perspective of Children and Youth (2013): there is a gap between the CRC and its practical application in schools. Although our respondents from Osijek and Maribor noticed content on children’s rights and participation during their school practice, studies conducted in their countries nevertheless indicate an insufficient presence of children’s rights and participation in schools (Jeđud Borić, 2015; Mithans et al, 2017). This finding can also be interpreted from another aspect: children’s rights, their realization in school, as well as the practice of participation skills imply a democratic, and not an authoritarian school climate (Seashore Louis, 2003); and a certain amount of autonomy—of the teachers in relation to the official curricula (MacMath, 2008), and the students in relation to everyday school activities (Bickmore, 2014).…”