Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21464/mo.29.2.4
The politics of the literature education during the transition from SFR Yugoslavia to the Republic of Croatia
Luka Ostojić
orcid.org/0009-0002-9170-3045
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The history of the school required reading shows us how and why pupils approached literature and how it impacted their convictions about reading, art and identities. The education systems were not only working on the strictly personal development of pupils, but were also implementing certain political values and ideas. The literature education thus encouraged ideas about national and supernational communities. The Yugoslav system presented the wide and complex notion of culture and literature, but in the demanding and counterproductive fashion. The Croatian system implemented the mononational approach to literature, while retaining the rigidness of the old system. For those reasons it is likely that pupils didn't connect with their national identities through literature and that they didn't develop reading habits.
Keywords
required reading; literary education; canon; brotherhood and unity; mononational approach; coercive pedagogy
Hrčak ID:
296364
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Publication date:
28.2.2023.
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