Ostalo

Paper on Marxist Education and Teaching of Sociology at Zagreb University

Antun Petak ; Institut za društvena istraživanja Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Jezuitski trg 4

Sažetak

Apart from the rest, the beginning of the seventies of this century in Yugoslavia is no doubt characterized by a number of discussions dealing with the Marxist education as being a factor for the formation of socialistic social consciousness. Considering the complexity and saturation of the so called »average social consciousness and the dominant global social processes connected with it, the question appears as one of the most delicate and the most complex questions concerning the ideological and social life in Yugoslavia in general. The importance of the question in Yugoslavia has been brought about by the need of wakening the critical social consciousness, in other words, by the need of forming the scientific-Marxist revolutionary concept of the world, by a deep crisis of the socialistic social consciousness, and by an enormous penetration of the various forms of traditional, bourgeois and dogmatic intellectual orientations in the post-revolutionary society tom by a series of elements which got over from the bourgeois society. It should be reminded that it took place after the great development and spreading of Marxist thought some ten years earlier.
No doubt, having that in mind the discussions about the Marxist education take a special place within the school system when taking into consideration the importance of the regular school system for socialization (in a sense of being permeated by social and cultural valuable orientations as well as in a sense of including the young generations into the education). There was a serious stagnation and a deep crisis of the Marxist education followed by a transformation phase accompanied by »new« questions about the sense of that education, about its contents, methodology and reach. These questions are of great importance within the high school system. It has been stated for the Marxist education to be the essential component, contents and method of the humanistic education having itself two levels: generally educational level and professionally formative level. Gene rally educational level should enable the acquirement of all that knowledge from the fields of sociology, philosophy, political economy, political science and social anthropology essential for the moving and orientation in the society. Professional aspect on the other hand simply means that a high school professional cannot with success professionally adapt himself or satisfy at his work without knowing that special sociology which comprises the so called social substratum of his profession. Here becomes noticeable a very close and unbreakable connection between the Marxist education and sociology which finally gets its own place in the education as one of the fundamental sciences.
The question has conceptually tried to be solved in this way at the University of Zagreb. Having that as a starting point and especially considering the fact, that the sociologists gathered at the Initial University Scientific Community of the Zagreb University as well as gathered at their own professional association, have been the first structural association in Yugoslavia to begin systematically to consider the question, the composer of this paper has limited himself to those materials and those documents which have resulted from the activity of that Community. The choice has been made in order to illustrate on one example, partly at least, the question of aim, contents, organization and methodology of the Marxist education as well as to continue the scientific research in the field of sociology. Unfortunately, the paper should not be considered closed but open at the places where some of the questions have remained to be solved. For example, the question of the relationship between the project and the practice of the Marxist education has not been yet cleared out precisely. Still, the paper gives evidence of the project of that education and endeavors which have been made in order to help the realization of the Marxist education.

Ključne riječi

Hrčak ID:

156459

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/156459

Datum izdavanja:

30.9.1974.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

Posjeta: 821 *