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Abstract: The positive youth development (PYD) model emphasizes the importance of identifying and supporting adolescents’ strengths rather than preventing or treating their deficits. This has proved to be a more effective approach to fostering positive development and resilience. PYD highlights the positive resources that adolescents possess, optimizing their well-being, personal development and life experiences if they are suitably empowered and supported. Since adolescents spend a great deal of their time in schools, these institutions should be obligated to create an environment which promotes positive development and serves as a protective factor. One of the crucial elements of the school climate with respect to supporting the positive development of migrant students is respect for diversity. In Slovenia, research shows that first-generation migrant students exhibit significantly higher levels of several internal and external PYD assets than other students. By conducting 8 focus groups with a total of 29 participants (principals, social workers, and teachers) at four Slovenian upper-secondary schools, we examined how the school context supports their positive development by focusing on respect for diversity. The results show that although all of the schools included have multicultural settings, the teachers and principals still perceive them as monocultural and monolingual. Different cultures and different languages are mostly seen as an impediment to educational goals or dealt with as a distant topic, which puts the protective function of the school environment for migrant students in Slovenia into question.
Keywords: education, upper-secondary schools, respect for diversity, migrant students, positive youth development, Slovenia
Published in DiRROS: 05.02.2026; Views: 213; Downloads: 89
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Abstract: This article examines how major droughts that affected all or parts of the Slovenian ethnic territory between 1921 and 2003 were reported in major Slovenian daily newspapers. Using qualitative content analysis, supported by basic corpus techniques, it analyses coverage of eight drought years (1921, 1939, 1950, 1952, 1962, 1983, 1992, and 2003) in Slovenec, Slovenski narod, Jutro, Slovenski poročevalec, Ljudska pravica, Delo, and Večer. The article analyses which vocabulary and metaphors newspapers used to describe heat and drought, how they reported on the impacts on agriculture and water resources, and how they portrayed state authorities, expert institutions, and farmers both as key response actors and as those most severely affected by the consequences of drought. It shows a shift from locally grounded and often sensational narratives in the interwar period, through more restrained and regime-aligned reporting under socialism, to more critical and risk-oriented framings after independence.
Keywords: environmental history, climate changes, drought, heat, press coverage, Slovenia, 20th cent., 21st. cent.
Published in DiRROS: 30.01.2026; Views: 240; Downloads: 113
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Abstract: The article describes the localities, sites and communities of Adiantum capillus-veneris along the Volarja/Volarnik, the right tributary of the Soča River between Tolmin and Kobarid (9747/4). We classified its communities from three locations at elevations between 210 and 250 m into the subassociation Eucladio-Adiantetum cratoneuretosum commutati, a new variant Eucladio-Adiantetum hymenostylietosum recurvirostri var. Pinguicula alpina and into the new association Adianto-Molinietum arundinaceae.
Keywords: phytosociology, synsystematics, Eucladio-Adiantetum, Adianto-Molinietum arundinaceae, Natura 2000, Upper Soča Valley, Julian Alps, Slovenia
Published in DiRROS: 28.01.2026; Views: 134; Downloads: 90
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Abstract: In the north-eastern foothills of the Julian Alps, above the village of Krnica under the peak of Srednji Vrh in the Radovna Valley, we found a new locality of the thermophilous Pontic-Mediterranean (South-European-West-Asian) species Buglossoides purpurocaerulea. This is so far the only locality in the Triglav National Park and the most northeastern locality in the Julian Alps, in a region with a relatively cold Alpine climate. We recorded it in a stand of thermophilous deciduous trees, European hop-hornbeam (Ostrya carpinifolia) and manna ash (Fraxinus ornus), which we for now classify in the association Fraxino orno-Ostryetum carpinifoliae. This species thrives in this community, but also in thermophilous beech forests in similar geological conditions but in a warmer and more humid climate, in the south-western foothills of the Julian Alps above the Bača Valley and in the Tolmin area.
Keywords: Buglossoides purpurocaerulea, Fraxino orni-Ostryetum carpinifoliae, phytosociology, Triglav National Park, Julian Alps, Slovenia
Published in DiRROS: 28.01.2026; Views: 160; Downloads: 80
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Keywords: nurses, nursing care, health care, Slovenia, acceptance, elderly, older people, aging, Slovenia
Published in DiRROS: 28.01.2026; Views: 202; Downloads: 79
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