20.500.12556/RUL-175520 What do future educators read and how do certain factors influence their reading habits evidence from Slovenia In this paper, we present selected findings from a 2024/2025 study on the reading habits of students from two major Slovenian universities enrolled in teacher education programs and compare them with data from a similar study conducted in 2017/2018. Understanding the reading practices of future educators is essential for improving reading engagement in schools and society as a whole. The data obtained from a selected student sample corroborate previous research indicating that early reading socialization—particularly childhood reading within the family, maternal education, and attendance in preschool—are factors positively associated with the number of books read in adulthood. The findings also highlight the important compensatory role of preschools and schools in fostering adult readers, especially in cases where family support for reading is lacking. In certain respects, the reading habits of students have deteriorated compared to the initial study: the time devoted to reading has decreased, and students more frequently choose less demanding texts. Female students read a greater number of books than male students, though their chosen texts tend to be less demanding, while male students more often select more challenging texts. Reading for pleasure and intrinsic motivation to read significantly influence the number of books read. reading culture students of teacher training programs reading in childhood motivation to read reading by gender bralna kultura študenti pedagoških programov branje v otroštvu motivacija za branje branje po spolu true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-10-30 12:24:16 2025-10-30 12:24:22 2025-12-12 03:33:18 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 1 spletni vir (1 datoteka PDF (16 str.)) is. 10 (1333) Vol. 15 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 37.091.279.7:51 2227-7102 10.3390/educsci15101333 255398659 education-15-01333_(1).pdf education-15-01333_(1).pdf 1 AE0E0B351C04F1E7FC5D8ED12076EBF6 25df53658afdf97be7592a4cc776d2454818420f35f8d2ec93efec2cd1f0504c ad4a1b0b-b58c-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=221154 https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15/10/1333 1 af112465-b582-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=221152 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0