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The Educational System and Ethnic Conflict (the Case of Former Yugoslavia
Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Ethnic and cultural diversity on the territory of (former) Yugoslavia influences, among other things, the need for autonomous education in the individual republics. Nevertheless, a certain flexibility and decentralisation of the educational system was powerfully overshadowed by a strict ideological centre. The integrative role of (dogmatic) Marxist ideology implied a supranational ideological inter-connection between the Yugoslav peoples which had no understanding for a more complete expression of national diversity and feelings. The interference of state ideology in the educational system made that system un-modern: sluggish and not independent. Goals posed from the outside (from above) were not in accord with the real needs of a multinational society. The conflictive situation on the territory of (socialist) Yugoslavia also brought to the forefront the shortcomings of the educational system. Sometimes these shortcomings were used as a means for political manipulation and ethnomobilisation (e.g. among the Serbs in Croatia), and partially they were also the cause of discontent and some conflicts (the example of the Albanians on Kosovo). Different (even contradictory) arguments on the threatened state of national (ethnic) specificities in education implied however a common origin of the discontent – the control of the ideological centre over the educational system. With the first wanning of the influence of the ideological basis of state coherence, and finally by its exhaustion, its dominance over the educational system likewise dried up, and formerly latent conflicts began to show themselves ever more.
Ključne riječi
education; schooling; ethnic conflict; Yugoslavia
Hrčak ID:
127294
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Datum izdavanja:
31.7.1992.
Posjeta: 2.318 *