Review article
The education of female children in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the ottoman ocupation from 1463. to 1878.
Snježana Šušnjara
; Faculty of Philosophy, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
The education of female children was a very rare phenomenon in the past of Bosnia and Herzegovina and it caused serious struggles between those who were for and those who were against such education. This article aims to shed some light to this issue. Each period of history had its own arguments and reasons for depriving women from education. During the Ottoman Period children were educated in confessional schools which were at a very low educational level. Religious courses were main school subject as well as reading and writing. Male children were allowed to go to schools but female children were not encouraged to do so. Sometimes in certain texts that deal with the Ottoman Period a few characters of female teachers are mentioned, but no details about their origin or education have been found. Nevertheless, these data prove that women, although not many of them, succeeded to gain certain education or become literate in this period.
Keywords
the Ottoman Empire; the education of female children; conditions in confessional schools; discrimination of female children; male children were allowed to go to schools
Hrčak ID:
81750
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2011.
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