Dizzing changes characterize our everyday life. Although it may seem that changes are general in the formal organization of schooling system, they are not as noticable as in other life segments. Nevertheless, they directly affect schools and their key factors: children – teachers – curricula – parents. As a result, there is the issue of the need of...

By Nezir Halilović

Traditional practice at schools has ceased to be the primary source of acquiring knowledge for some time now. These days, teaching staff is dealing with a population of students that cannot be integrated into the teaching process in a traditional way. Students see teaching requirements and teachers’ efforts as old-fashioned, difficult and dull. Tea...

By Ahmed Buljubašić

In the last few centuries, European colonialism replaced, neutralized, and minimized local political, social, economic, legal, and educational institutions in the Muslim world, and thus it, undoubtedly, became a chalenge for Islamic religion and culture. Exactly this new state produced reformers who tried to insure an Islamic basis for educationa...

By Šefik Kurdić

Shaih Se’id Havva is an outstanding personality among contemporary Islamic scholars. With his total commitment, and especially his written works, he gave crucial contribution to the affirmation of contemporary Islam and Islamic thought. Living in the 20th century, the time of great turmoil, he truly identified himself with the problems that contemp...

By Safvet Halilović

Traditionally, lexicography and lexicology are considered to be the most developed disciplines in Arabic linguistics. During pre-Islamic period, Arabs were very concerned the the protection of the original Arabic vocabulary, and in the first centuries of an Islam expansion, the vocabulary of the literary arabic language was collected and compiled...

By Mejra Softić

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the theoretical construct of a social capital. The social capital is understood as one of the relevant prognostic constructs for the results of both transitional and integrational processes in our societies. Considering that the environment we live in is evident in the process of (re)ac...

By Edina Vejo, Nataša Mirolović-Vlah

The paper present a new pedagogical issue known as brain-based learning. The main determinants of the phenomenon have been pointed out to question the possibilities of its methodical impact. The phrase brain-based learning is used as a term for the way of understandig a learning process. Various publications of an American author Eric Jensen's boo...

By Amina Isanović

A set of instruments applied at entrance exams for the last two academic years has been rather comprehensive in order to provide good insight into candidates’ skills and characteristics. For the reasons of rationalizing testing instruments which are to be used at entrance exams at this faculty, and for the aim of the research, it is necessary to ex...

By Anela Hasanagić

Mehmed ef. Handžić (1906-1944) is a unique Bosnian alim (scholar) who wrote great many diverse works. His uniqueness lies partly in his being the only one, in the modern history of Bosnian Muslims, who annotated the Noble Qur’an in Arabic and who treated only the ayats with Shari’ah (legal) themes (ajatul-ahkam). In the field of Taffssir his most i...

By Halil Mehtić

A new strategic management system, if it’s adequately implemented, can change an entire organization in a way to became more effective and efficient, and the most of strategic management authors and practicers agree that implementation of an organizational strategy is more difficult than its formulation. In today’s dynamic, highly competitive envir...

By Elvir Čizmić, Izet Pehlić