In view of the fact that students are surrounded by visual representations and audio-visual and auditory materials on a daily basis, owing in particular to media such as television and the internet, it is difficult to imagine today's educational process without the use of various teaching and learning resources. The purpose and role of teaching and learning resources doesn't only consist of making the educational process more attractive and interesting, but also of encouraging active learning, the development of different skills and the adoption of desirable values and attitudes in students. In order to achieve the aforementioned goals, it is extremely important to clearly define the conditions and methods of utilising teaching and learning resources in the teaching and learning process. The aim of this study was to, first and foremost, define and determine the basic stages of utilising teaching and learning resources, assuming that the aforementioned affected and stipulated the achievement of their purposes, roles and tasks in the teaching and learning process.

Objections to the fact that education is, on the one hand, overburdened by theory and separate from practice or, on the other hand, completely separate from theory can be found in contemporary researches and theory of education. These objections also imply the problem of selecting the content, as well as the way of teaching and formulating the desired outcomes arising from the education process. One of the possible solutions to this problem is the concept of “school for life”, which, in the pursuit of John Dewey’s philosophy of education, leads to the abolition of the false dichotomy of theory and practice in education. Contemporary education can, therefore, no longer be understood as a process in which passive subjects acquire knowledge, but as activity of subjects that by experimenting and innovating adjust the content that comes from experience and ultimately applies them again to everyday life. In this way, the outcomes of the educational process should be understood not as dogmatic reproductions of existing knowledge, but as an entity’s ability to participate fully in the life of the community to which it belongs, including lifelong education, participating in the process of acquiring work experience and active, responsible and constructive action within community. The demand for meaningful education related to the subject’s developmental age, its interests and close to its everyday life experiences is also shaped by the current reform of the Croatian educational system, which is developing under the concept of “school for life”. The aim of this paper is to establish the theoretical framework of such a request, to analyse specific Croatian case and to examine how close to the contemporary tendencies in education Croatian reform in school education has really come to.

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Školski sustav 21. stoljeća ima jasno zadanu strukturu odgojno-obrazovnih ciljeva. Kreativni razvoj u toj strukturi zadanog ima vrlo važno mjesto jer je kreativan učenik onaj koji je spreman otkrivati, kritički promišljati i stvarati, što su nužne kompetencije za život i rad u 21. stoljeću. Razvoj i poticanje kreativnosti vezano je uz kogniciju tako da se poučavanje za kreativnost odnosi na poučavanje usmjereno na razvoj kognitivnog mišljenja kod učenika. Nastava povijesti po svojoj složenosti zahtijeva razvoj apstraktnog mišljenja kod učenika, što je nužno za razumijevanje predmetnog sadržaja, ali i preduvjet razvoju kreativnog mišljenja. Da bi učenike poučili zahtjevnom apstraktnom mišljenju i kod njih potaknuli razvoj kreativnog mišljenja potrebno im je, uz korištenje adekvatnih nastavnih strategija, ponuditi različite izazove koji će ih misaono pokretati. Cilj je ovog rada, uz teorijsko razlaganje onoga što podrazumijeva kreativnost općenito te specifično u nastavi povijesti, prikazati značajke kreativnog mišljenja, razložiti ulogu školskog okruženja i nastavnika te dati primjere pitanja i zadataka čija je svrha poticanje kreativnog mišljenja uz primjenu suradničkih strategija.