Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.21.1.10
Family Education in »Bosiljak«, »Smilje« and »Bršljan« – Children’s and Youth Magazines in the Second Half of the 19th Century in Croatia
Ivan Lenard
orcid.org/0000-0002-9077-678X
; Ladimirevci Elementary School, Ladimirevci, Croatia
Mirko Lukaš
orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-3035
; J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
The family represents an important educational and socialization base for the maintenance of the community, and its historical discourse allows us to better understand the contemporary problem of this phenomenon. The content analysis of the selected children’s and youth magazines from the second half of the 19th century in Croatia illustrates the practice of family education and proclaimed family values at that time. The selected texts from the magazines »Bosiljak«, »Smilje« and »Bršljan« [»Basil«, »Immortelle« and »Ivy«] are analyzed in 177 volumes on 3685 pages. The hermeneutic approach allows us to conclude that in the Croatian pedagogical literature of the observed period, a family is considered the primary educational community where a mother is the backbone of family education. The pedagogical culture of parents is predominantly in the fields of physical, moral, intellectual and religious education. The analyzed journals’ content contains and interprets family values, which can be categorized in love for a mother, love for a sister, love for parents, love for a child, love for a brother and love for a father. The educational values are exemplified through habits and fairness as educational means of family members. Their educational activities are unimaginable without the participation of mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters as factors of family life. Therefore, the conducted research confirms the existence of educational values in children’s and youth magazines in the second half of the 19th century and the proclaimed interest in increasing the pedagogical culture of parents in family education in the observed Croatian historical area.
Keywords
children’s magazines; education; family; historical discourse; love; socialization; values
Hrčak ID:
295441
URI
Publication date:
13.3.2023.
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