Comment / Future Development

The process of the curriculum modernisation has been going on at all undergraduate levels of the education system since 2007. Currently, the process involves the primary school and the grammar school.

The reasons for modernisation originate in the need for constant monitoring, modernisation and development of the curriculum, and in the fact that the school system needs to respond to the needs of modern society, in which a constant modernisation of learning and teaching and development of the possibility of life-long learning are imperatives.

The Ministry of Education and Sports established expert bodies, composed by representatives of The National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, primary-school and grammar-school teachers and representatives of faculties. They cooperate in preparation and implementation of novelties into the existing curricula and catalogues of knowledge for general education schools and general education knowledge in vocational training.

The strategies, principles and objectives of modernization point out:

• flexibility of the learning process (openness and possibility of selection, flexible schedule, individualization, etc.);

• a holistic and global approach to learning and teaching (learning at the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor areas of development and meta cognition);

• pupils’ competence (critical thinking, creativity, showing initiatives, solving problems, risk assessment, taking decisions, constructive control of emotions);

• autonomy of teachers and pupils;

• learning-objective, process-development teaching model;

• quality of knowledge;

• development of pupils’ achievements and of their metacognitive abilities;

• making connections among different subjects and disciplines;

• ICT knowledge.