Review article
Education of Teachers in Croatia between Two World Wars
Štefka Batinić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0001-0976
; Hrvatski školski muzej, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Igor Radeka
; Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za pedagogiju, Zadar, Hrvatska
Abstract
This article deals with the education of teachers in Croatia in the period between two World Wars within the context of the education policy in the then common state, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians (from 1929, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and within the context of pedagogical reform ideas and attempts of an intern school reform. The Act on Teacher Training Colleges of 1929 increased the tuition of teachers from four to five years. Ideas about the need to educate future teachers at institutions of higher education and (or) at universities were more of a theoretical contribution to the debate, than a realistic and acceptable option under the circumstances. Nevertheless, teachers were given the possibility of further formal education at the Further Education Teacher Training College in Zagreb (from 1919) and later on, at the University as well (a course of study in philosophy and education). The lack of initiative on part of the state and its inefficient education policy were compensated by professional activism of teachers which manifested itself in organising and attending summer courses from the mid-1920’s to the mid-1930’s, whose purpose was to provide training in new working methods in school. The work school as the main objective of didactic and methodological renewal, initiated by teachers, became the official methodological work model in primary schools between two World Wars.
Keywords
education of teachers; Croatia; 1918-1941
Hrčak ID:
334450
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Publication date:
31.12.2013.
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