Page 378 - Pedagoška vizija / A Pedagogical Vision

Mirjana Radetić-Paić

sophical approaches (Dekleva 1996, as cited in Žižak and Koller-Trbović 1999):
classical (morally punitive), modern (rehabilitation-treatment), and post-
modern (restorative-responsibility). Also, the treatment of children and mi-
nors with behavioural disorders needs to be seen through its theoretical
foundation, i.e. through the models on which certain treatments were based,
explaining, through the history of treatment, the accepted ways of interpret-
ing human nature as a whole, alongside documenting specific behaviours or
behavioural disorders (medical, behavioural and psychoeducational mod-
els). Throughout history, institutions have generally not documented the
theoretical basis of their programmes, so it is difficult to evaluate them, while
research has been able to uncover relatively little about it (Mejovšek 1984).
In accordance with these models and their acceptance, various institutions
were opened in the area of the city of Pula. Thus, on 15 July 1958, the Centre
for Social and Health Prevention was founded. In the early 1960s, today’s Cen-
tre for Education of Children and Youth was opened, while pedagogues and
psychologists began to be employed in the schools. Young people’s free time
was organized more intensively. The Youth Centre was founded in 1961. It was
an independent institution which organized, improved and implemented
cultural, artistic and educational work and the upbringing of children and
young people, as well as their entertainment and leisure. At that time, the
union of societies, Naša djeca, of the Pula municipality had 30 societies (Ujčić
1963).
About forty years ago, more systematic scientific research into behavioural
disorders began to be carried out in this area, first in terms of causality and
manifestations, and later in the identification of risks and strengths:

1. In the early 1980s, in the territory of the Republic of Croatia, including
the city of Pula, more extensive research was carried out, which dealt,
among other things, with research into the personal characteristics of
juvenile delinquents and the characteristics of their behaviour, i.e. the
forms and causes of these disorders. At that time, special emphasis was
given to the research that was interpreted as part of their professional-
analytical activity by a group of authors, expert workers of the Centre
for Social Welfare in Pula in 1984 (Banković et al. 1984), in cooperation
with experts from the Department of Behavioural Disorders and Penol-
ogy of the Faculty of Special Education, University of Zagreb. The main
goal of the research was the analysis of juvenile delinquency in the ter-
ritory of the then municipality of Pula, with the purpose of further elab-
oration of the programme of measures and actions to suppress and

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