Exploring the Culture of Early Childhood Education Institution : Serbian Curriculum

Kultura ustanove ranog odgoja snažna je mreža običaja, pravila, normi, ponašanja svih članova ustanove, a koja se prepoznaje po njihovim međusobnim odnosima, upravljanju ustanovom, organizacijskom i fizičkom okruženju te stupnju usmjerenosti na učenje i istraživanje odgojno-obrazovne prakse. Jedna od osnova na kojima počiva kultura ustanove su vrijednosti – one su u korelaciji s kulturom kojoj pripadaju, njome su određene, ali i povratno, vrijednosti određuju kulturu. To ujedno znači da su dimenzije konteksta ustanove – socio-pedagoška koja obuhvaća odnose među ljudima u ustanovi na svim razinama, te strukturalne dimenzije koje obuhvaćaju prostorno-materijalnu i vremensku organizaciju rada – one u kojima kultura ustanove postaje vidljiva, odnosno one koje implicite govore o normama, stavovima, uvjerenjima i vrijednostima njezinih članova. Cilj ovoga rada je ispitati postojanje povezanosti obrazovne paradigme odgajatelja s oblikovanjem strukturalnih dimenzija kulture u ustanovama ranog odgoja u Srbiji, uzimajući u obzir specifičnosti ranog i predškolskog odgoja i obrazovanja u toj državi.The culture of an early education institution is a strong network of customs, rules, norms, behaviors of all members of the institution, which is recognized by their relationships, institution management, organizational and physical environment, and the degree of focus on learning and research of educational practice. One of the foundations on which an institution's culture rests are values - they are correlated with the culture to which they belong, they are defined by it, but in the reverse, values determine the culture. This also means that the dimensions of the context of the institution - socio-pedagogical, which encompass relations between people in the institution at all levels, and structural dimensions that include the spatial, material and temporal organization of work - those in which the institution's culture becomes visible, that is, those implicitly talking about the norms, attitudes, beliefs and values of its members. The aim of this paper is to examine the connection between the educational paradigm of educators and the shaping of the structural dimensions of culture in early childhood institutions in Serbia, taking into account the specificities of early and pre-school education in that country