Acta Iadertina, Vol. 17 No. 2, 2020.
Review article
The pedagogy of Stjepan Matičević: On the occasion of the hundred and fortieth birth anniversary and the eightieth death anniversary
Igor Radeka
; Department of Pedagogy, University of Zadar
Abstract
The following article analyses the life and work of Stjepan Matičević (1880-1940). He was born in a respectable middle-class family in Srijemska Mitrovica. After graduating in philosophy, classic philology and history and taking a PhD in philosophy, he started teaching at grammar schools in Osijek and Senj, and later at the Royal All-male Upper-town School for Teachers in Zagreb. After working simultaneously as an external associate of the Faculty of Philosophy and a
part-time teacher at the College of Pedagogy in Zagreb, he eventually accepted a permanent position at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, in 1920, working there until the end of his life. The first two university lecturers who taught pedagogy as part of philosophy to students taking teaching-oriented programmes of study at the Faculty were noble Franjo Marković and Đuro Arnold. As their successor, Stjepan Matičević separated pedagogy from philosophy as
an independent discipline – similarly to the way Johann Friedrich Herbart established pedagogy as an autonomous scholarly field worldwide. Matičević founded the first pedagogy study course in Croatia in 1928, from which time it became possible to obtain a PhD in that field in Croatia. Through his 8 books and 70 published articles, he found an original way to lay the foundations of pedagogy as an independent scholarly discipline. Stjepan Matičević was the first and the most prestigious university professor of pedagogy in Croatia between the two World Wars. Apart
from being engaged in numerous educational, university and cultural organisations, he remains the first and only pedagogue who was a permanent member of the Yugoslav/Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Keywords
cultural pedagogy; personalism; functionalism; study of pedagogy
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Publication date:
26.2.2021.
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