young school-aged children, glagolitic, curriculum, teaching units
Abstract
In today's age of globalization and intercultural communication, the importance of preserving the glagolitic heritage as an important part of the Croatian identity and culture is becoming increasingly important. In recent years, it has been present in the social consciousness, science, art, entrepreneurship, but also education. However, acording to present knowledge, glagolitic extracurricular activities are still extremely rare among young school-aged children. The aim of this research was to determine attitudes of pupils included in Little Glagolitics extracurricular activity in the fourth grade of elementary school towards that extracurricular activity and their glagolitic preferences toward the teaching units. It has been found that respondents have a very positive attitude towards extracurricular activity Little Glagolitics (93%), and that their favourite teaching units were Glagolitic Games and Creative Workshops. The pupils also expressed a positive attitude toward the units Writing Numbers and Glagolitic Calligraphy. The respondents didn't express any negative attitude towards any of the units, but they liked the Reading Exercises and Introduction to Glagolitics little less than the others. The results of this research justify the establishment of the glagolitic groups in the first four grades of elementary school and the inclusion of some glagolitic teaching units or their parts in the subject curriculum and curriculum of cross-curricular themes.
