Review article
Girls’ secondary schools in Požega, Đakovo and Osijek (1876-1900)
Dinko Župan
; Hrvatski institut za povijest
Abstract
From 1876, when girls’ Secondary School in Požega was founded, until the end of the 19th century, girls’ secondary schools in Požega, Đakovo and Osijek were multinational and multidenominational educational institutions. Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox and Protestant students were equally treated in religious education. Students’ mother tongues were Croatian, German, Serbian, Hungarian and Czech, which created the multicultural atmosphere in the schools. Most of the students came from the middle class and the curriculum was adapted to them. The secondary schools were supposed to be the principal centres for moulding the behaviour of middle class girls. Constructing the female identity as a wife, mother and housewife was one of the main goals in education in relation to the traditional patriarchal society because the secondary school students gained certain amount of common knowledge that enabled them to develop at least partial emancipation in the society of the time.
Keywords
girls’ secondary schools; history of education; Slavonija; 1876-1900
Hrčak ID:
334571
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2007.
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