STEM Library Activities in Croatian Primary School Curriculums.

The goal of this paper is to give an overall picture of STEM activities in school curriculums supported by school librarians in primary schools in Croatia. Qualitative content analysis was the research methodology used to examine Croatian primary school curriculums, which are the main planning documents for all school activities. There are 904 primary schools in Croatia, according to the official list provided by the Ministry of Science and Education in Croatia (Ministarstvo znanosti i obrazovanja Republike Hrvatske, 2019). The research examined the curriculum documents available on the official web pages of 854 Croatian primary schools. The research findings, based on school year 2018/2019, give a general picture of STEM activities in school curriculum, involving librarians, in six categories: science, green libraries, technology, engineering, mathematics, and extracurricular activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]