Modern studies show that in highly developed countries including Slovenia a postmodern cultural revolution is taking place, characterized by newer, postmaterialist values that are formed based on economic and physical security. Due to these values, the individual places less and less emphasis on traditional values and authorities and is therefore often left to themself to build their value system. The school and the teacher play an important role in this, encouraging students to develop values that are in line with the norms of society and school. Since teachers influence students through their beliefs and values, understanding the teachers’ personal values offers us insight into how they will function in the school environment in the future, which will be the main goal of our research. Values studies generally divide the values of the population into post-materialist and materialist values. Since Slovenia is classified as a developed country in the aforementioned studies, I, as a future teacher, was interested in whether the generation of teachers to which I belong will contribute to maintaining or even strengthening Slovenia's position among countries in the coming post-materialistically oriented years.
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