KOMPETENCIJE PEDAGOGA ZA AKTIVNOSTI PROFESIONALNOG ZAGOVARANJA / ZASTUPANJA
COMPETENCIES OF A PEDAGOGUE FOR PROFESSIONAL ADVOCACY

Summary/Abstract: he aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of professional advocacy to the readers in the context of the profession of a pedagogue and their professional activities.Professional advocacy is an agent of social change and includes a range of activities that, among other things, may aim to improve the status of the profession. The professional role of the pedagogue is multidimensional and requires comprehensiveness and action at several levels. Therefore, the theory of ecological systems is a good basis for understanding this central role of the pedagogue. The paper presents activities of professional advocacy in the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem, with the emphasis on different domains in which it is possible to represent the interests of the pedagogues’ profession, as well as different human and material resources for advocacy that exist in each system environment. In addition, the paper discusses various classifications of advocacy competencies in which the personality traits, knowledge and skills that a pedagogue needs to successfully advocate for a particular idea and set goal arE presented. The paper concludes that the pedagogue should develop general and specific advocacy competence, but also thathe/she should identify, through self-reflection, personality traits and habits that could presentobstacles in the advocacy process in order to be able to eliminate them and develop those personality traits that contribute to successful implementation these activities.

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