Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.31.4.6
(Not) Knowing the Person and Work of Bishop Strossmayer. Results of Internal Research Among Students of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Academy of Arts and Culture of J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek
Vladimir Dugalić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1085-2541
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Đakovo, Croatia
Sanja Matičić
orcid.org/0009-0003-0788-681X
; High School Vukovar, Vukovar, Croatia
Abstract
Bishop Strossmayer left a significant mark in the preservation of Croatian culture, especially by promoting the spiritual and educational dimension of art. Therefore, the paper presents the results of internal research conducted using Google Form among 54 first and fifth-year students of History and Croatian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and students of Fine Arts at the Academy of Arts and Culture of the J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek. They confirmed the initial hypothesis that students are most familiar with data related to their specific field of study and lack broader knowledge of the bishop’s work, especially his vision of art. It is surprising, however, that some questions were answered better by first-year students than by fifth-year students, which leads to the conclusion that a greater cross-curricular correlation is needed for today’s students to better understand the work of Bishop Strossmayer. At the same time, this also leads to the conclusion that students acquire greater knowledge about the person and work of Bishop Strossmayer during their secondary education and that they do not expand it enough during their studies.
Keywords
Bishop Strossmayer; cultural heritage; Croatian literature; fine arts; Higher Education; students; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek; Academy of Arts and Culture of J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek
Hrčak ID:
313587
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Publication date:
24.1.2024.
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