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Contemporary teaching focuses on the students' active role in the acquisition of knowledge. Specifically, it concentrates on the cognitive aspect of knowledge and neglects the role of emotions, whose role and significance in the learning process should be recognized as extremely viable not only for the learning process but also for the students’ personal development and their interaction with peers. In this paper, the authors perceive empathy as the acceptance, understanding, and appreciation of others' emotions, opinions, and social position while highlighting its significance in the students’ learning process and their interaction with peers. Since textbooks are the primary medium via which the transfer of knowledge occurs, in the second part of the paper, we analysed high school history textbooks' content. The results show that questions and tasks as textbook tools are not neglected in history textbooks. Moreover, the textbooks contain a considerable number of questions and tasks aimed at encouraging students' active role in the process of teaching and learning, which is evident from the way they are formulated. The results also suggest that high school history textbooks overemphasize the cognitive aspect of the learning process while simultaneously inadequately put students in a position which would also allow them to be more emotionally engaged with the historical events. The authors of the research conclude that there is not enough emphasis in high school history textbooks on encouraging students to understand and acquire a complete historical picture, which is why the article highlights guidelines for encouraging empathy in history teaching.

Objectives In 2019 The Croatian Working Group for Laboratory Hematology, on behalf of the Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine, wanted to explore the background in field of laboratory hematology routine practice among Croatian laboratories in order to develop future strategies for producing national recommendations, if needed. Methods During April and May 2019, a comprehensive survey covering all main parts of the total testing process within the field of laboratory hematology among Croatian medical laboratories was conducted. The survey comprised 49 inquiries. Data was collected using Survey Monkey (Palo Alto, CA, USA). All collected data was anonymized. Results The response rate was 72%. There is still a substantial number of laboratories that have only three-part differential hematology analyzers (9%). Furthermore, a very high number of laboratories did not perform analyzer verification prior to implementation into routine work (31%). Out of those who have verified their analyzers, a diversity of guidelines and recommendations were used. Nearly 10% of the laboratories do not have a defined policy regarding specimen rejection. The majority of the participants perform internal quality control daily (83%), however, only 51% of respondents evaluate the agreement between different hematology analyzers on daily basis. Although more than 90% of Croatian laboratories have a defined policy regarding specimen rejection, only 61% of respondents continuously monitor quality indicators in routine practice. Conclusions The survey revealed substantial differences in all aspects of laboratory hematology practices among Croatian medical laboratories, indicating the need for universal recommendations at the national level.

The introduction to this article outlines the basic characteristics of Rjecnik hrvatskoga kajkavskoga književnog jezika (Croatian Kajkavian Standard Dictionary) as a historical Croatian dictionary based on written and manuscript sources of standard Croatian Kajkavian. After a brief overview of the structure of the dictionary entries, there is an overview of the methodology of lexicographic analysis used, which highlights graphic and phonological principles used in establishing entries through confirmed morphological forms and usage examples. Basic morphological characteristics are also emphasized as grammatical components of dictionary entries within the framework of grammatical categories particular to a specific kind of word in standard Croatian Kajkavian. It is also noted that the dictionary is a source of data on syntactic markings particular to standard Kajkavian. Within the framework of lexicographic analysis, the dictionary is also highlighted as a base for various semantic research.