Političko obrazovanje, Vol.2 (2006.), br.1-2, str.15-42 Pero Maldini ∗ NEW APPROACHES IN POLITICAL EDUCATION: COURSE PORTFOLIO APPLIED ON POLITICAL CULTURE COURSE Izvorni znanstveni rad SUMMARY Paper deals with three main aspects of a new course implementation within new study of public communication and with impact of new lecturing methodology in university teaching. Educational aspect refers to the content of Political Culture course as a certain knowledge that enables understanding, recognizing and analyzing socio-cultural origins of political phenomena (particularly those related to democratization process) as well as a significant part of civic education. Methodological aspect refers to the practical implementation of Scholarship of teaching and learning through the Course Portfolio as an interactive and reflective form of teaching and learning performance. It represents the intellectual integrity of teaching and learning on a very distinctive way. By capturing and analyzing coherence among design, implementation and outcomes through research and reflective relationship through communication, it allows permanent improving of lecturing and learning process and reaching a professional excellence. Informational aspect refers to the knowledge sharing and information exchange (with students, peers in the discipline and public interested in a subject) through the interactive web site. Putting Course Portfolio on the web means a new way of communication. Through the web faculty can make their teaching/learning experience publicly accessible, share and exchange it and get a much wider feedback necessary for their work evaluation and improvement. Key words: Political Culture, Course Portfolio, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Knowledge sharing, Communication. 1. Introduction Establishing of the new study in a field of public communication 1 that should educate capable and skilled prospective professionals, among the ∗ Pero Maldini, Ph. D.,University of Dubrovnik