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In September 1964, a good ten years after that, the Secretariate for
Education and Culture held a meeting where the establishment,
the profile and the tasks of the future Educational Research
Institute were discussed. During the meeting, Stanko Gogala, the
4 then-prefect of the Educational Studies Department of the Faculty
of Arts, explained the first proposal related to the nature, the
structure and the work of said Educational Research Institute, thus
initiating the process of direct and concrete preparations related to
the establishment of the Slovenian Educational Research Institute.
On 2 March 1970, the founding rights over the Institute were taken
over by the University of Ljubljana, under the tutelage of which the
Educational Research Institute has been functioning until 26 April
1995 when the Government of the Republic of Slovenia adopted the
decision establishing the (independent) public research body
called the Educational Research Institute.
Today, the Educational Research Institute is the principal institute for
scientific research in the field of upbringing and education; its
research work is related to the entire educational vertical, from
pre-school education to higher education. Around 35 researchers
working in 8 centres are not only researching so-called global
knowledge studies (e.g. PISA, TALIS, PIRLS, TIMSS, ICCS...), even
though this is what the Educational Research Institute is probably
best known for to general public; they also deal with philosophical
and, chiefly, ethical upbringing and education issues; communication
and the ways language is used in the field of education; questions
related to (the social construction of) gender in the educational
process; and different psychosocial questions arising throughout the
school teaching process, such as motivation, anxiety, empathy,
bullying, violence against teachers, transition from kindergarten to
school, and socio-economic status of students. Of course, these
areas of research are not the only ones explored by the Educational
Research Institute; to find out more about them, go to www.pei.si.
We are looking forward to your visit!
Ljubljana, 15 July 2019
Professor Dr Igor Ž. Žagar, Director of the Educational Research
Institute
Education and Culture held a meeting where the establishment,
the profile and the tasks of the future Educational Research
Institute were discussed. During the meeting, Stanko Gogala, the
4 then-prefect of the Educational Studies Department of the Faculty
of Arts, explained the first proposal related to the nature, the
structure and the work of said Educational Research Institute, thus
initiating the process of direct and concrete preparations related to
the establishment of the Slovenian Educational Research Institute.
On 2 March 1970, the founding rights over the Institute were taken
over by the University of Ljubljana, under the tutelage of which the
Educational Research Institute has been functioning until 26 April
1995 when the Government of the Republic of Slovenia adopted the
decision establishing the (independent) public research body
called the Educational Research Institute.
Today, the Educational Research Institute is the principal institute for
scientific research in the field of upbringing and education; its
research work is related to the entire educational vertical, from
pre-school education to higher education. Around 35 researchers
working in 8 centres are not only researching so-called global
knowledge studies (e.g. PISA, TALIS, PIRLS, TIMSS, ICCS...), even
though this is what the Educational Research Institute is probably
best known for to general public; they also deal with philosophical
and, chiefly, ethical upbringing and education issues; communication
and the ways language is used in the field of education; questions
related to (the social construction of) gender in the educational
process; and different psychosocial questions arising throughout the
school teaching process, such as motivation, anxiety, empathy,
bullying, violence against teachers, transition from kindergarten to
school, and socio-economic status of students. Of course, these
areas of research are not the only ones explored by the Educational
Research Institute; to find out more about them, go to www.pei.si.
We are looking forward to your visit!
Ljubljana, 15 July 2019
Professor Dr Igor Ž. Žagar, Director of the Educational Research
Institute
