The basic role of contemporary education is to guide pupils
towards active learning and make them contribute to all segments
of the teaching process. Since active learning leads
towards efficient education, and since it encourages and develops
knowledge, skills and attitudes, teachers should promote this type
of learning from the beginning of one’s schooling. This paper’s
aim was to study to what extent teachers conduct various teaching
strategies in active learning in teaching Nature and Society
and if the environment stimulates the active acquisition of knowledge,
skills and attitudes. The research was conducted on a sample
of teachers (N¼184) from three counties in the Republic of
Croatia. The research results show that active learning and various
teaching strategies are to a great extent conducted in a stimulating
environment at the beginning of education, but at the same
time they point to the need of a higher encouragement of this
learning form, for pupils to be able to learn actively and create
learning communities at later levels of educatio
