Contemporary primary school curriculum

U radu se razmatra pojam pismenosti u suvremenim okolnostima te odnos prema novoj pismenosti u školi. Oduvijek je pismenost bila u službi zadovoljenja društvenih potreba pojedinog doba, a danas je nova pismenost u službi globalne komunikacije. Osim što je sredstvo za postizanje ciljeva društva, pismenost je i sama sebi svrhom u sklopu samoaktualizacije pojedinaca u demokratskim društvima. Osnovna škola primarno je mjesto za razvijanje pismenosti pa je stoga nužno prilagoditi pristup pismenosti u školi suvremenim tumačenjima pismenosti. Usmjeravajući se na čitanje, vještinu koja uz pisanje čini bitnu odrednicu pismenosti, rad analizira odnos prema pismenosti u kurikulumima – Nacionalnom okvirnom kurikulumu, školskom kurikulumu i kurikulumu nastave. Namjera je rada aktualizirati promišljanje o izmijenjenom licu pismenosti (postojanje nove pismenosti ili novih pismenosti) i postojećem odgovoru obrazovanja na nastale okolnosti.The paper discusses a changing concept of literacy, based on the contemporary social and technological development, and the status of new literacy in the primary school curriculum. Literacy has always served a certain social purpose and nowadays it enables global communication. Apart from being a means of achieving goals of a society, its value is evident in an individual’s self actualisation process in a democratic society. Primary schools have a leading role in the development of literacy and therefore its place in the school curriculum needs to be redefined and updated, bearing in mind the contemporary findings of the new literacy studies. The article focuses on the reading skill which, along with writing, represents a crucial component of literacy. The position of literacy in various school curricula has been analysed – in National Curriculum Framework, school curriculum and teaching curriculum. The intention was to rethink the notion of the new literacy/literacies and the existing response of education to the contemporary changes