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Kompetencija učiti kako učiti u međunarodnom okružju
Get PDFIN CROATIAN: U ovom poglavlju predstavljen je razvoj kompetencije učiti kako učiti u međunarodnom kontekstu, s posebnim osvrtom na globalne i europske inicijative obrazovne politike koje definiraju sastavnice te kompetencije. Poglavlje polazi od konceptualnog određenja ove kompetencije u projektima kao što je međunarodno istraživanje PISA, te dokumentima koji definiraju temeljne kompetencije potrebne pojedincu u suvremenom društvu, kao što je Europski kompetencijski okvir. Daje se i pregled dosadašnjih istraživanja i razvoja ove kompetencije u Europi, te pregled postojećih kurikulumskih dokumenata o razvoju vještina učenja. --------------- IN ENGLISH: This chapter presents the development of the learning to learn competence in the international context, with a special view on the global and European educational policy initiatives that define and theoretically elaborate the components of this competence. The chapter starts with the conceptual definition of this competence in projects such as the international PISA research, and the documents defining the key competences necessary to an individual in contemporary society, such as the European Competence Framework. An overview of existing research and development of this competence in Europe is given as well as an overview of existing curricular documents on the development of learning skills
Pristupi mjerenju samoregulacije učenja
Get PDFIN CROATIAN: U ovom poglavlju opisani su različiti pristupi mjerenju samoregulacije učenja koji su se dosad koristili u istraživanjima. Ti se pristupi međusobno razlikuju u tome definiraju li samoregulirajuće učenje kao stabilnu osobinu koja dolazi do izražaja u različitim situacijama učenja ili kao promjenjiv proces ovisan o situaciji učenja. U poglavlju se raspravlja o izazovima i mogućnostima tih različitih pristupa mjerenju samoregulacije učenja te se prepoznaje novi smjer koji procese učenja promatra u okviru intervencija kojima se želi kod učenika potaknuti razvoj kompetencije učiti kako učiti. --------------- IN ENGLISH: In this chapter various approaches to measuring self-regulation of learning are described, which were employed in to-date research. These approaches differ among themselves in the question whether they define the self-regulation of learning as a stable trait that is expressed in various learning situations, or as a mutable process, dependable on the learning situation. The chapter discusses challenges and possibilities of these various approaches to measuring self-regulation of learning, and a new direction is recognized, which views the learning processes in the framework of the interventions aimed at fostering the learning to learn competence among pupils
Social, emotional and intercultural competencies: a literature review with a particular focus on the school staff
No full textFramed by the EU-project Hand in Hand focusing on Social, Emotional and Intercultural (SEI) competencies among students and school staff the paper discusses implementation and professional competencies based on a literature review. Five themes were identified: 1) Intercultural/transcultural competency is not often referred to in the same research as social-emotional learning, though socio-emotional aspects appear to be `in the core´, 2) it is crucial to be aware of agency among school staff in a SEI-implementation, 3) successful implementation is about more than the activities in the specific program, it is rather about elements in synergy and professional learning over time, 4) the subtle balance between adaptation and fidelity might best be addressed in an adaptive curriculum emphasizing active ingredients, and 5) this is a field with many intervention studies, but it is urgent to consider if the psychometric measures are sufficiently sensitive to catch the subtle changes related to SEI-competencies
Uključivanje mladih u donošenje odluka u Hrvatskoj i EU: ubleha koja (i dalje) traži realizaciju
Get PDFIN CROATIAN: Rad analizira promjene koje su se dogodile u sektoru mladih od ulaska Hrvatske u Europsku uniju do 2019. godine. Autor pokazuje da je Hrvatska implementirala određene policy strukture, no da nije iskoristila njihove mogućnosti. --------------- IN ENGLISH: The paper analyzes changes that have happened in the youth sector in Croatia since Croatia joined the EU. The author shows that Croatia implemented certain European structures in the field of youth policy but did not use all possibilities the EU offers
Challenges of integrating refugees into Croatian society: attitudes of citizens and the readiness of local communities
Get PDFThe integration and inclusion of persons under international protection (i.e. persons granted asylum and refugees) into society proceeds through their contacts and interactions with institutions and residents in local communities where their reception and accommodation have been organised. In this process, the achievement of social, economic, cultural and all other dimensions of integration in local communities is facilitated by the activities of different national and local stakeholders in the integration system. Creating the conditions for Croatian citizens to familiarize themselves with refugees requires joint efforts by all system stakeholders and engagement to inform citizens and raise their awareness about the presence, rights and obligations of persons under protection, with a view to preventing and mitigating any negative manifestations of discrimination, exclusion and marginalisation, and to ensuring that persons under international protection become accepted and integrated members of local communities and society as a whole. With this in mind, this research has analysed capacities and challenges, and assessed the resources and needs of local and regional self-government units given their past or future experience with the reception and integration of persons under protection. Furthermore, this research has also identified the attitudes of Croatian citizens towards persons under protection and their readiness for the reception and integration of persons granted asylum in their local communities.The general purpose of the project is to support units of local (cities, towns and municipalities) and regional (counties) self-government in identifying the needs and challenges of integrating third-country nationals in need of international protection. To achieve the purpose of this research, both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies have been used. As a result, it was conducted as mixed-method research, that is, as two correlated studies. The quantitative segment of the research pertains to its first goal, which was to identify the attitudes of Croatian citizens and their readiness for the acceptance and integration of third-country nationals granted international protection in the Republic of Croatia, while its qualitative segment refers to the second research goal, to identify the needs of local and regional self-government units in the process of integrating third-country nationals granted international protection in the Republic of Croatia as well as the challenges they encounter or will encounter when it comes to the integration of persons granted asylum into Croatian society. The third research goal, to prepare checklists for assessment of needs and challenges of integration for local and regional self-government units and for persons granted international protection, has been achieved by synthesising the findings reached under the previous two goals and by preparing two checklists. One is intended for heads and staff of LSGUs and RGSUs so that they can assess the existing needs, resources and capacities of their communities in terms of planning and implementation of integration activities. The other is designed for persons granted asylum and serves for the self-assessment of their needs and the extent to which they are met. Accordingly, the starting point for tool selection and elaboration is the multidimensional concept of integration of aliens into the host society, which is focused on the processes and dimensions of integration of persons under international protection (either with full asylum or subsidiary protection status) into Croatian society as a whole, but also into individual local communities in Croatian regions covered by this research.Due to the specific character of the quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches, the report describes methodological aspects and results separately, first for the quantitative study conducted by a survey of citizen’s attitudes towards the integration of persons under national protection, and then for the qualitative study of needs and challenges faced by local communities in the integration process. The target group of survey participants covered by the research was defined so as to include citizens living in selected counties (regional self-government units) and towns and municipalities (local self-government units). In order to form a sample of participants for the purposes of this research, Croatia was broken down into four regions: Eastern, Central and North-Western, Littoral and Istrian, and Dalmatian regions. In each region, the sample came to include between two and five counties (a total of 12) and between three and five towns (a total of 15). The Eastern Region encompassed the counties of Osijek-Baranja, Vukovar-Srijem and Požega-Slavonski Brod. The Central and North-Western Region included the City of Zagreb as well as the countries of Zagreb, Sisak-Moslavina, Bjelovar-Bilogora and Varaždin. The Littoral and Istrian Region covered Primorje-Gorski Kotar and Istria counties. The Region of Dalmatia consisted of Zadar and Split-Dalmatia counties.In the selected towns, the size of the sample was proportionate to the size of the town within its region, with the participants in each town selected by probability sampling. The sample of citizens aged 18 to 65 included 318 persons in each region, and probability sampling – together with the use of two levels of purposively selected clusters (region and town) – ensured that the sample structure, in terms of its socio-demographic profile, reflects the characteristics of the region’s population, according to publicly available statistics. The sample formed in this manner and its size (N = 1,272) allowed inter-regional comparisons with regard to the relevant characteristics of the participants and measured constructs. Data were gathered using the CAPI (Computer Aided Personal Interviewing) method, in the period from 14 May to 10 June 2018. The response rate was 57%, which is quite high given the type of research in question.The survey questionnaire contained 67 items forming the following constructs and scales: (1) Attitude towards persons granted asylum; (2) Perception of realistic threat; (3) Perception of symbolic threat; (4) Support for the rights of persons granted asylum; (5) Perception of negative changes in the community; (6) Readiness to assist persons granted asylum; (7) Frequency of contacts with persons granted asylum; (8) Quality of contacts with persons granted asylum; (9) Sources of information about persons granted asylum; (10) Media portrayal of persons granted asylum; (11) Social proximity to persons granted asylum; (12) Attitude towards forms of acculturation; (13) Estimated number of persons granted asylum; (14) Change in the number of persons granted asylum; (15) Socio-demographic profile of participants. The scales used in this questionnaire show very good metric characteristics: a Cronbach’s alpha internal reliability coefficient ranging from 0.77 to 0.93 and a clear construct validity and single-factor structure.The collected data were subject to a series of statistical analyses, including descriptive calculation of statistics (range, frequency, median measures, variability measures) at the levels of the aggregate sample and each region as well as inter-regional comparisons of the results derived from the measured constructs (variance analyses, t-tests, chi-squared tests). Also, by using regression analysis, a model was set to predict two forms of behavioural intentions among host populations: (1) readiness for social relations with asylum beneficiaries at different levels of proximity; and (2) readiness to help persons granted asylum in their integration. These two forms of behavioural intentions served as criterion variables, which were predicted on the basis of a set of predictors that included the participants’ individual attributes (socio-demographic variables and regional affiliation), their religious and political orientation, their opinion about the number of asylum beneficiaries to be received by the country in future and about their social adjustment strategies (i.e. about acculturation strategies), their frequency of contacts with persons granted asylum and their perception of threats and expected changes in the community caused by the arrival of persons granted asylum (i.e. perceptions of realistic and symbolic threats, and expectations of negative changes in the community).The average results obtained on the aggregate sample show that, when it comes to attitudes towards persons granted asylum, the respondents express attitudes that are, on average, neutral. However, when assessing their perception of threat, they seem to feel a slight realistic threat, and a somewhat stronger symbolic threat. The participants also express what is, on average, a neutral attitude regarding the expected negative changes in the community. As for their readiness to help asylum beneficiaries personally, the participants are also neutral, stating they are not sure of their readiness in this regard, but showing a slight support for the rights of asylum beneficiaries. Concerning the frequency of contacts
with persons granted asylum, slightly more than half of the participants (52.1%) reported that they had such contacts, describing them, on average, neutrally – as neither positive nor negative. Among those who reported such contacts, the majority stated that they were rare.The data collected clearly show that the mass media (print and online news outlets, television and radio) are the most common source of information for Croatian citizens – more than 90% of citizens receive information about persons granted asylum in this way. These are followed by social media, which are used as a source of information about asylum beneficiaries by nearly half of the participants (45.8%). It has been established that citizens deem the media portrayal of asylum beneficiaries slightly negative.As for social proximity, the participants are, on average, ready to accept persons granted asylum as their fellow workers or neighbours, where it is obvious that the citizens are, for the time being, not ready for the closest relations with asylum beneficiaries, although nearly 61% would be ready for friendly relations.The participants were also asked about acceptable acculturation strategies, that is, about how persons granted asylum should approach the Croatian culture and maintenance of their own culture. The majority of participants (70.7%) chose integration as the preferred acculturation strategy (both maintaining their own culture and accepting the culture of the host country). About one fifth of the participants champion assimilation as the preferred acculturation strategy; i.e. they expect persons granted asylum to relinquish their specific culture and accept only that of their host country. Separation, that it, the opinion that persons granted asylum should maintain only their own culture without accepting Croatian culture, is upheld by 3.7% of the participants. Looking at acculturation strategies as a continuum (from assimilation, through integration, to separation, or vice versa), the participants on average tend to support cultural integration of persons granted asylum.When it comes to estimating the number of persons granted asylum at the time of survey, only one fifth of the participants made a more or less accurate estimate. Somewhat more than a fourth of participants underestimated the actual number of asylum beneficiaries, whereas almost half of them overestimated the number of cases of granted asylum. These results are consistent with the replies regarding preferred projections of the number of asylum beneficiaries in the future. Specifically, the majority of participants (45.8%) feel that their number should remain the same, only slightly fewer are those who would reduce it (45.6%), while less than a tenth holds that the future number of asylum beneficiaries in Croatia should go up.The analysis of regional differences demonstrates that the least positive attitudes towards persons granted asylum, the highest perception of both realistic and symbolic threats, the lowest support for the rights of asylum beneficiaries, the highest expectations of negative changes, and the lowest readiness to assist are present among participants in the Dalmatian Region. It is followed by the Eastern Region, and then the Littoral and Central Regions, where these attitudes are more positive. The frequency of contacts with persons granted asylum is low in all the regions, with the lowest levels reported in the Eastern and Dalmatian regions. However, there are no regional differences in the quality of contacts, as it is everywhere seen as neutral. Readiness for close contacts is the lowest in Dalmatia, followed by the Eastern Region, with its highest levels reported in the Littoral and Central regions. The citizens of all regions choose integration as their preferred acculturation strategy, while participants in Dalmatia divided their preferences between assimilation and integration. The number of asylum beneficiaries is mistakenly estimated in all regions. Indeed, it is overestimated everywhere except the Eastern Region, where the figure is underestimated. Furthermore, while the citizens of the Central and Littoral regions would prefer to keep the future number of asylum beneficiaries at the same level, those in the Eastern and Dalmatian regions are keener to reduce it.
When predicting the readiness for social proximity with asylum beneficiaries, the key predictors include the attitude towards the number of asylum beneficiaries in the future and acculturation strategies. The readiness for a higher level of proximity is demonstrated by those citizens who feel that the future number of asylum beneficiaries should be increased, as well as those who champion integration. The predictors of marginal importance include practising religion, where the participants who do not declare themselves as practicing believers tend to be ready for a higher level of proximity with persons granted asylum, as well as the perception of symbolic threat and the fear of negative changes in the community, where those who perceive a higher symbolic threat from asylum beneficiaries and expect more negative changes in the community due to the arrival of persons granted asylum tend to be ready for a lower level of proximity with them. These results generally apply to all of the four regions.When it comes to predicting the readiness to assist asylum beneficiaries personally, it can also be said that – allowing for minor regional particularities – the key factors include the participants’ opinion that the number of asylum beneficiaries should increase in the future and, again, the perception of a higher symbolic and realistic threat. Those participants who feel that the future number of asylum beneficiaries should increase are readier to help, whereas those whose perception of threat from asylum beneficiaries is higher are also less prepared to assist them personally. Another highly significant predictor is the frequency of contacts with persons granted asylum. Those participants who reported more frequent contacts with asylum beneficiaries are also more prepared to assist them. Finally, the variables of marginal significance include gender and political orientation, where women and those on the left side of the political spectrum would be readier to help asylum beneficiaries.The conducted regression analyses show that the most frequent predictors for both criteria (social proximity and readiness for personal assistance) include the perception of symbolic and realistic threat, expectation of negative changes in the community due to the arrival of asylum beneficiaries, opinion that the future number of asylum beneficiaries in Croatia should be increased and the choice of integration as the preferred acculturation strategy. It follows that a more favourable attitude of Croatian citizens can be expected if they feel less threatened by persons granted asylum, that is, if they understand that their arrival does not pose a threat to the existing identity and culture nor jeopardise the resources of local communities, if they expect less negative changes in their communities due to the arrival of asylum beneficiaries, if they think that the number of asylum beneficiaries in Croatia needs to be increased in the future, and if they believe that integration is the acculturation strategy appropriate for Croatia.The second part of this research deals with the assessment of needs and challenges which are or will be encountered by LSGUs and RSGUs, and also of the capacities and resources required for integration with regard to the current or anticipated accommodation and stay of asylum beneficiaries in their local communities.This part of the research was conducted through a series of interviews and focus groups with different stakeholders in the integration system, which are in one way or another involved in or will in future be responsible for the processes of reception and integration of persons granted asylum. Stakeholders from LSGU and RSGU include representatives from county-level and town-level public authorities and various professional institutions, while the CSO stakeholders include representatives from the non-governmental sector, religious organisations and civic initiatives. The perspectives of integration processes were, whenever possible, complemented with those of asylum beneficiaries in the local communities in which they live. For sampling purposes, a list of 30 units (9 counties and 21 towns) was drawn up, taking into account the criteria of regional representation, town size, experience with the integration of asylum beneficiaries and available state-owned housing units. Along with the four regions, the City of Zagreb was taken separately as it considerably differs from other regions in terms of the number of integration stakeholders and capacities, as well as the number of asylum beneficiaries it hosts. The persons included in the sample had the attributes of schoolants based on their role and office they held, their experience and knowledge of the needs and challenges relating to the integration of asylum beneficiaries in local communities. In keeping with the principle of maximising the variability of key informants, a total of 168 interviews and four focus groups were conducted with 227 participants, including 26 interviews with persons granted asylum. Once all of the methodological requirements were met in the process of qualitative-data gathering, 158 transcripts obtained from 216 interviewees were subjected to analysis. The other transcripts did not contain any useful information because some interviewees were totally uninformed about the topic of the research. Of the total number of analysed transcripts, 143 contain data obtained from 191 representatives of municipalities, towns and counties, state-administration offices at the county-level, professional institutions and the civil sector, while 15 transcripts of interviews and focus groups contained information obtained from 26 asylum beneficiaries. The analysis made it possible to identify some specific features of statements made by representatives of the selected local communities about their needs, challenges, opportunities and expectations. A comparison has been made among the four regions and the City of Zagreb, and similarities and differences have been analysed among statements made by stakeholders from different sectors.The results for all regions (except the City of Zagreb) equally suggest that most of the integration-system stakeholders from LSGUs and RSGUs (towns, municipalities and counties) generally had no direct experience of contacts and work with persons granted asylum or, if they had, then they encountered asylum beneficiaries in rare, individual cases. On the other hand, interlocutors from Zagreb recounted and described experiences of direct and immediate encounters with persons granted asylum, mostly through participation in projects with SCOs and the OHRRNM, while CSOs in all the regions have very little direct experience with asylum beneficiaries. A large portion of LSGUs and RSGUs in each region state that they are not aware of the Action Plan for Integration, or are aware of it only partly, or since a short time ago. Stakeholders in various sectors and regions have not developed their own action plans and protocols for integration, independent of the Action Plan. Professional institutions do not have their own plans either, but many of them perform tasks relating to the integration of persons granted asylum as part of their daily work and remit, and some have their own internal prodecural protocols, most often based on their previous experience with marginalised groups or guidelines from relevant ministries. All stakeholders in all regions agree that the lack of funding poses a serious structural constraint and that allocations for integration activities should be increased. They stress that the entire budget is centralised and that they lack special resources earmarked for integration, noting, however, that budget allocations could be repurposed or activated if and when the need arises.When it comes to understanding the importance and indicators of successful integration, there are no major differences between either sectors or regions. As far as the key dimension of integration is concerned, all stakeholders across all regions highlight communication, that is, learning the Croatian language, as a crucial prerequisite for all other aspects of integration, especially for the inclusion of children in the education system, participation of adults in the labour
Comparative analysis of book citations in social science journals by Central and Eastern European authors
No full textIN ENGLISH: This study aims to assess the role of authored and edited books in scholarly communication through citation analysis. It focuses on social science journal articles written by authors from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The sample for book citation analysis were references (n = 1,033,926) from research articles (n = 35,501) published in 2726 journals indexed in Scopus, where at least one author was from a CEE country. The journals were classified in 10 social science fields (economics and business, education, library and information science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and three multidisciplinary fields) and divided into two groups according to the journal publisher’s country (CEE and non-CEE journals). Authored (n = 221,768) and edited books (n = 74,506) were extracted from cited references through an in-depth parsing and cleaning process. The average number of cited references per article in the full sample was 29, with the share of cited authored books of 21.4% and edited books of 7.2%. The share of authored books in cited references in CEE journals was 26.6%, while for edited books it was 7.8%. Sociology is a field where books are almost equally represented in cited references (47%) as articles, while book citations are much less represented in the fields of psychology (28%), economics and business (27%), and information and library science (24%). Additionally, the core book authors were identified across scientific fields, and differences in citing books covered by Scholarly Publishers Indicators versus books published by local/regional publishers were explored. ---------------- IN CROATIAN: Svrha ovog rada je da se kroz citatne analize istraži uloga autorskih i uredničkih knjiga u znanstvenom komunicranju na korpusu članka u časopisima iz područja društvenih znanosti čiji su autori znanstvenici iz 15 post-socijalističkih europskih zemalja. Uzorak za citatne analize knjiga činilo je 1.033.926 referenci citiranih u 35.501 članka objavljenih u 2.726 časopisa indeksiranih u bazi Scopus. Časopisi su klasificirani u 10 polja društvenih znanosti (ekonomija, informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti, obrazovne znanosti, politologija, pravo, psihologija, sociologija te tri multidisciplinarne polja) i podijeljeni u dvoje grupe ovisno o zemlji izdavača časopisa (CEE i non-CEE časopisi). Autorske (n=221.768) i uredničke knjige (n=74.506) procesom parsanja i manulanim provjerama izlučene su iz citiranih referenci. Prosječan broj citiranih refenci po članku bio je 29 pri čemu je udio citiranih autorskih knjiga bio 21,4% a uredničkih 7,2%. Udio autorskih knjiga u citiranim referencama u CEE časopisima bio je 26,6%, a za uredničke knjige 7,8%. Sociologija je polje u kojem se knjige gotovo podjednako (47%) citiraju kao i članci, dok je citiranje knjiga manje zastupljeno u polju psihologije (28%), ekonomije i biznisa (27%) te infrmacijskih znanosti (24%). Dodatno, u radu su identificirane “ključne” autorske knjige po pojedini znanstvenim poljima kao i razlike u citiranju knjiga koje pokriva Scholarly Publishers Indicators (SPI) u odnosu na knjige lokalnih/regionalnih nakladnika
Exploration of class and political behavior in Croatia
Get PDFIN ENGLISH: In Western European countries, studies on the relationship between class position and political outlooks so far have a limited understanding of the relevance of class analysis, while in semiperipheral countries, like Croatia, research on class-related mechanisms and political behavior is modest, with a clear deficit of empirical research. The main goal of class analysis is to have the potential to explain various life outcomes primarily through explaining and exploring relationships between class position and life chances. In this article, we have employed neo-Weberian class analysis with the purpose to explore the relationship between class position and political behavior. In the article we use the concept of political behavior as a broader term that consists of individuals’ interest in politics, political efficacy, and political participation (voter turnout). We have used the data from the International Social Survey Program module Role of Government V from 2016. Analysis has shown that in Croatia, class membership is a predictor of interest in politics and political efficacy, i.e., that the members of a higher class show greater interest in politics and assess that they have a better understanding of politics. Class per se does not have a direct effect on voter turnout, but it is mediated through political efficacy and interest in politics since voting is mostly under the influence of personal interest in politics. --------------- IN CROATIAN: U zapadnoeuropskim zemljama istraživanja odnosa između klasne pozicije i političkih stavova do sada su pokazivala ograničeno shvaćanje važnosti klasne analize, a u zemljama polu-periferije, poput Hrvatske, istraživanja mehanizama povezanih s klasom i političkog ponašanja su skromna, s jasnim nedostatkom empirijskih istraživanja. Glavni cilj klasne analize je stvoriti mogućnost objašnjenja različitih životnih ishoda, prvenstveno kroz objašnjavanje i istraživanje odnosa između klasne pozicije i životnih šansi. U ovom smo članku koristili neoveberijansku klasnu analizu kako bismo istražili odnos između klasne pozicije i političkog ponašanja. U članku koristimo koncept političkog ponašanja kao širi termin koji se sastoji od zainteresiranosti pojedinaca za politiku, njihove političke efikasnosti te političke participacije (izlaska na izbore). Koristili smo podatke iz programa ISSP (International Social Survey Program) i to modula Uloga vlasti V iz 2016. godine. Analiza je pokazala da je u Hrvatskoj klasna pripadnost prediktor zainteresiranosti za politiku i političke efikasnosti, odnosno da pripadnici više klase pokazuju veće zanimanje za politiku i procjenjuju da se bolje razumiju u politiku. Klasa po sebi nema izravan učinak na izlazak na izbore, ali on je posredovan političkom efikasnošću i zanimanjem za politiku, obzirom da je glasovanje većinom pod utjecajem osobne zainteresiranosti za politiku
“For my health and for my friends”: exploring motivation, sharing, environmentalism, resilience and class structure of food self-provisioning
Get PDFIN ENGLISH: This article aims to supplement the growing understanding of the specificities of food self-provisioning (FSP) practice in Eastern Europe with deeper understanding of the class structure and broader environmentalist motivations of the self-reported practitioners. FSP and sharing of ‘garden produce’ is a long-term socioeconomic phenomenon in Croatia but so far there has been no research on the whole population in regard to FSP. We explore how widespread FSP in Croatia is, based on a survey of a nationally representative sample (N = 1000), within a broader social stratification project. We further explore the class structure of FSP practitioners and compare it to their reported motivations for engaging with the practice, and their pro-environmental behaviour, resilience and personal flourishing. Previous research in CEE has shown that FSP is characteristic of between 35% and 60% of national populations (Smith and Jehlička, 2013), whereas our findings show that a little over 50% of respondents claim that they have a garden, field or orchard, they use to produce food for themselves and part of their social network. As a practice it is more situated in smaller settlements and rural areas, but it is not a principally rural phenomenon. Slim majority of people involved in FSP in Croatia are identified as working class, however, FSP is not a coping strategy focused on the poor and low-income households in Croatia and food self-provisioners report higher level of personal wellbeing, more pro-environmental behaviour and higher level of self-perceived resilience. --------------- IN CROATIAN: Člankom se nastoji upotpuniti sve veći broj istraživanja specifičnosti prakse proizvodnje hrane za vlastite potrebe u istočnoj Europi dubljim razumijevanjem klasne strukture pojedinaca koji primjenjuju ovu praksu, kao i njihove šire motivacije usmjerene na zaštitu okoliša. Proizvodnja hrane za vlastite potrebe i dijeljenje 'vrtnih proizvoda' dugogodišnji je socioekonomski fenomen u Hrvatskoj, no do sada nije bilo istraživanja ove prakse na cijeloj populaciji. Proučavamo rasprostranjenost proizvodnje hrane za vlastite potrebe u Hrvatskoj temeljem ispitivanja na nacionalno reprezentativnom uzorku (N=1000) u sklopu projekta kojim se šire istražuje društvena stratifikacija. Provodimo daljnje istraživanje klasne strukture pojedinaca koji proizvode hranu za vlastite potrebe i uspoređujemo je s njihovom iskazanom motivacijom za bavljenje tom praksom, njihovim pro-ekološkim ponašanjem, te s otpornošću i osobnom dobrobiti ovih pojedinaca. Ranija istraživanja u srednjoj i istočnoj Europi pokazuju da se proizvodnjom hrane za vlastite potrebe bavi između 35% i 60% nacionalne populacije (Smith i Jehlička, 2013.), dok naši nalazi upućuju da nešto preko 50% ispitanika ima vrt, njivu ili voćnjak, koji koriste za proizvodnju hrane za sebe i za dio svojih prijatelja i poznanika. Ova praksa češća je u manjim mjestima i ruralnim područjima, ali nije u prvom redu ruralni fenomen. Blaga većina pojedinaca koji proizvode hranu za vlastite potrebe pripada radničkoj klasi, no ova praksa nije strategija preživljavanja siromašnih kućanstava i onih niskih prihoda u Hrvatskoj. Jednako tako, proizvođači hrane za vlastite potrebe izražavaju veću razinu osobne dobrobiti, veću sklonost pro-ekološkom ponašanju i višu razinu samoprocijenjene otpornosti
