This contribution aims to examine how different areas of self‐regulation are related to academic achievement in adolescents and young adults. The study involved participants, drawn from following age groups: 14–15, 17–18 and 22–23. In order to get information about cognitive, metacognitive, motivational and emotional aspects of self‐regulation, self‐report questionnaires were used. Differences between age‐groups revealed following tendency: there has been a decrease in all fields of self‐regulation from age of 14 (end of primary school) to the age of about 18 years (end of secondary school), and then results slowly improved to the age of about 22 years (students of undergraduate studies). The results obtained are mirroring perceived competence of self‐regulation and differ from the results concerning metacognitive accuracy. Metacognitive self‐regulation persists as an important predictor of school achievement at all developmental levels, and the motivational self‐regulation has significant impact on performance in the first and second age group.

The purpose of this study is to analyse how important are specific environmental conditions and skills of early childhood education (ECE) teachers as predictors of collaboration with immigrant parents. The study included 348 ECE teachers in Slovenia. The results revealed that environmental conditions (e.g., gender, level of education, job position, educational environment support) are important predictors of collaboration with immigrant parents. Male teachers, teachers whose job position is ECE teacher rather than assistant teacher, and teachers who have higher levels of education reported a significantly better collaboration with immigrant parents than female teachers and teachers with lower educational levels. Regarding ECE teacher skills, results revealed that interpersonal and professional skills (e.g., positive values, positive attitudes towards teaching immigrant children and perceived immigrant child misbehaviour) are important predictors of reported collaboration with immigrant parents in ECE. The results are of practical significance for ECE teachers, immigrant parents and ECE management staff.

Monografija predstavlja prvo celovito in sistematično analizo stanja uporabe generativne umetne inteligence (GEN-UI) v izobraževanju v Sloveniji. Raziskava, strukturirana skozi enajst tematskih področij, zajema različne deležnike vzgojno-izobraževalnega sistema na primarni, sekundarni in terciarni ravni. Vsebina ponuja poglobljen vpogled v vrste, pogostost in namene uporabe GEN-UI v osnovnih, srednjih šolah ter fakultetah. Obravnavani so izzivi, s katerimi se srečujejo deležniki pri uporabi GEN-UI, etična vprašanja ter pedagoške priložnosti, ki jih omogočajo orodja GEN-UI. Analizirane so tudi potrebe po usposabljanju, zaznane tehnične omejitve ter predlogi za optimizacijo uporabe GEN-UI v pedagoških procesih. Poseben poudarek je namenjen percepciji vpliva GEN-UI na različne vidike vzgojno-izobraževalnega dela, vključno z organizacijsko podporo, zaznanimi koristmi, uporabniško izkušnjo ter doživljanjem procesov učenja, poučevanja in vodenja ob uporabi GEN-UI. Monografija predstavlja pomemben znanstveni in strokovni doprinos k področju edukacijskih ved ter nudi dragocene usmeritve za oblikovanje strateških politik in odločitev na področju vzgoje in izobraževanja v prihodnosti.

The purpose of this study is to analyse which ecological conditions (professional background and support from the environment) and interpersonal skills (values, attitudes and emotional competences) predict ECE teacher competences in working with immigrant children. The results of the hierarchical regression analysis revealed that interpersonal skills are stronger predictors of teachers’ competences than ecological conditions. The results of network analysis indicate specific in-depth relations among teachers’ competences and the analysed variables. The study is important as it combines ecological conditions as contextual factors and interpersonal skills to better understand how to support ECE teachers in a multicultural environment.

Bralna pismenost se razvija v celotnem človekovem življenju, še posebej intenzivno pa v času izobraževanja. Med ključnimi dejavniki za razvijanje bralnih kompetenc in bralne kulture pri otrocih ter mladih je odrasli, ki spremlja njihov razvoj in je bralni zgled. V prvi vrsti so to starši in skrbniki, a s(m)o tudi strokovni delavci v izobraževalni in knjižnični dejavnosti izredno pomembni spodbujevalci bralnih navad otrok, učencev, dijakov, študentov in drugih odraslih v izobraževalnem procesu. V projektu Bralni vzori: bralne navade strokovnih delavcev v vrtcih, šolah in fakultetah ter splošnih knjižnicah smo se posvetili proučevanju in vrednotenju pomena ter vloge, razumevanja, razširjenosti in razvitosti ter prisotnosti bralnih navad strokovnih delavcev v izobraževanju in knjižnicah. Projekt traja 24 mesecev (od oktobra 2023 do septembra 2025), v njem pa sodeluje 17 raziskovalcev s Pedagoške fakultete Univerze v Mariboru in Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani.