Acta Iadertina, Vol. 14 No. 1, 2017.
Original scientific paper
The Development and Current State of Alternative Pedagogical Concepts in Slovenia
Edvard Protner
; Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Department for pedagogy
Abstract
By alternative pedagogical concepts we mean the efforts for reforming school, education and theoretical conceptualization which are also known as reformist pedagogy, progressive pedagogy, new school movement, etc. The transition from the 19th to the 20th century is a time of high pluralisation of pedagogical thought. Favourableness of new pedagogical trends grew substantially in the time between both wars. The most prominent representative was Anton Osterc - his polemics with representatives of other pedagogical courses help us outline various theoretical positions of this period. The ideas of reform pedagogy were defended by the Pedagogical Central in Maribor. Despite the efforts in Slovenia, this period did not see a taking off of any of the alternative (experimental) schools. The pedagogic doctrine after World War 2 strongly rejected the ideas of reformist pedagogy. The main advocate of this critique was Vlado Schmidt who saw typical elements of bourgeois pedagogy in reformist or progressive pedagogy (pedology, as he named it) - he linked reformist pedagogy ideas with a lack of knowledge in children and an inadequate educational orientation while referring to the child’s natural neglect of social education aims. Elements of reformist pedagogy ideas started establishing themselves again in the territory of Slovenia within the self- management pedagogy and experiments with permissive education. The first alternative school in Slovenia with a publicly valid programme was established in 1992 - this was the Waldorf School in Ljubljana. Its establishment was made possible by the new social situation after the change of the political system. Establishing new school alternatives was made possible by the school legislation of 1996 with the regulation of public schools. Currently, there are four alternative private basic schools in Slovenia.
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Publication date:
15.11.2017.
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