Original scientific paper
Education of the Yugoslav Peasantry in the Era of Sdence
Antun Petak
; Institute for Sodal Research of the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia - Yugoslavia
Abstract
The process of scientification is a consequence of the third scientific and technological
revolution and has resulted in the professiona!ization of agricultural work on the family
farm. This makes it urgent to form an adequate and complete system for the professional
education of farmers. It is also a fact that the development of a vital private farm is a
pre-condition for farmers and agriculture in Yugoslavia to overcome the crisis. Taking the
above mentioned as a starting point, the author investigates the effects of scientification on
the professionalization of agriculture as a calling, and the education of the future farmer.
Using the resu Its of a secondary analysis of earlier researches on the farmers demand and
the farmers professional training practice, he establishes the educational circumstances of
farmers in Yugoslavia as a rea!istic pre-condition for their participation in the already begun
and the expected transformation of private agricultural production.
Analysing the scientification aspects of agricultural production (all the consequences of the
expected scientific and technological breakthrough into the objeet, means, man ner, structure,
organization and character of work), the author shows the direction and the speed of
professiona!ization and proves the key role of knowledge, as the so-called ultimate deve 1-
opmental resource. It is, therefore, indispensable to establish the professional education of
farmers, which will be one of the important answers to future challenges.
The resuits of research into the agricu!tural youth and agricultural households, and those
of processing census data in Yugoslavia, show that educational structure of Yugoslav farmers
is worse than that of other categories of the active population, but also that there is a
positive attitude towards the need for introducing special professional education for farmers.
Basing his conclusions on the analysis of the present qualification structure of farmers and
on earlier results, the author presents the main elements of productive professional training that would make possible a flexible and real answer to the challenge of the transfermati
on of agricultural work and production.
Keywords
education; peasantry; professionalization of agricultural work; profession agriculturist; scientific and technological revolution
Hrčak ID:
99599
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Publication date:
21.9.2003.
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