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https://doi.org/10.15291/gem.4084

German Language in the Comprehensive High School of the Multicultural City of Osijek as a Transmitter of Central European Cultural Values - A Historical Approach

Ljubica Kordić ; Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku

Sažetak

Multilingualism and multiculturalism are inseparable parts of the identity of the city of Osijek, in which the German language played a unique
role. In the introduction to this paper, the multicultural and multilingual
milieu of the city of Osijek from the 17th to the 20th century is presented as
the socio-linguistic ground for the development of the Essek dialect. The
focus of the investigation is the German language as one of the carriers
of Central European values, culture and worldview. Those values strongly
influenced the way of life of the local population and the swing in the cultural and economic life of the city in the second part of the 19th and the
beginning of the 20th century. Although Croatian was declared the official
language around the mid-19th century, German was still the spoken city
language in the multilingual milieu of Osijek in the first decades of the
20th century. For a long time, German was the language of instruction
in its classical (large) high school and, depending on the mother tongue
of his students, it was their first or second language. Based on the school
documentation kept in the Osijek City Museum and in the State Archive
in the fundus of the classical high school, the teaching content and the
obligatory reading in the subject “German language” at this high school
are researched and analyzed. The aim of this study is to determine which
values and worldviews were conveyed to the students through their German lessons. An interesting source of information about the values and
educational goals promoted at that time in the classical Osijek high school
are the subjects of compulsory essays in German, the lists of which can be
found in the regular annual school reports of the high school. In the concluding part of the work, some negative features of life in a multicultural
city in different socio-political circumstances are discussed as well.

Ključne riječi

multilingualism, German Language teaching, Osijek, Central-European values

Hrčak ID:

287888

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/287888

Datum izdavanja:

21.12.2022.

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