DIDACTIC AND METHODICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EDUCATION IN GENERAL UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOLS

The article presents the results of an empirical research highlighting upper secondary school programme implementation in 29 from a total of 56 Slovenian general upper secondary schools. The sample for the research carried out in January 2006 was comprised of 420 upper secondary school teachers covering different subject fields and 3.104 students. The basic research question was how individual phases of upper secondary school education are organized: preparation, dealing with educational material and knowledge evaluation. The authors of the article focused on the middle educational phase - dealing with a new educational material - and showed that in the light of didactic and methodical characteristics of education we could talk about the introduction of a new education culture in upper secondary schools.