The Culture of Military School: The Example of the Dr. Franjo Tudjman Croatian Defense Academy (original) (raw)

The Cadets from the Military Schools as Subjects of Educational Activity

IJAEDU- International E-Journal of Advances in Education

Training is organized and systematically conducted process of active interaction, where the teacher’s leading activity stimulates and directs the training activity and the trainees’ behaviour with a view to achieving certain goals. It is bilateral process – of teaching and acquiring knowledge, establishing skills and turning them into habits The goal of the present study is to reveal the essence of the reasons that lead to cadets’ drop out of the All-Army Faculty of National Military University and to propose actions for their impact reduction. Keywords: drop-out, cadets, National Military University, education.

Cultivating Culture and Character: An Anthropological Analysis of the United States Military Academy at West Point

Noula Karaszi, 2022

Noula Karaszi's paper provides an anthropological examination of the United States Military Academy at West Point, exploring its rich cultural dynamics and the impact of its ethos on cadets. Through an analysis of historical accounts and scholarly works, the paper delves into West Point's origins, rituals, and socialization processes. It highlights the academy's role in shaping cadets' identities, fostering values of duty, honor, and leadership. Additionally, the essay discusses the academy's adaptability to contemporary challenges and its ongoing commitment to excellence. Through a comparative analysis of various works on military history and leadership, Karaszi contextualizes West Point within broader discussions of military culture and values.

Values and norms of behaviour in the life of cadets

2020

The aim of this paper is to analyse the meaning, role and place of values in the life of a soldier. Furthermore, the article explores the issues of soldiers' ethical standards and types of behaviour which can be found in the modern army. It outlines that they are strongly influenced by the local culture. As a result of everyday performance, every individual makes assessments, i.e. formulates different opinions according to a specific criterion and assigns them a significant place in the hierarchy of values. In the light of this theory, the article examines the hierarchy of values and the norms of behaviour that occur in the lives of cadets. The paper uses The Rokeach Value Survey as well as The Kruskal-Wallis test by ranks. Using these two methods, the author analyses his own questionnaires to compare the value system of Polish Air Force University students. The main findings state that cadets have a permanent system of values. Moreover, they share similar judgments concerning different behaviour. Regardless of the course year, goals and values related to their homeland and family seem to be of the greatest importance. The overall findings of the paper show a great number of similarities in the cadets' value system. It is recommended that the future research should focus on examining students of other Polish military universities in order to check if they respond differently. The results obtained may be helpful in the process of young soldiers' upbringings taking into consideration the moral figure among military school graduates.