Prolegomena za istraživanje usmene književnosti u udžbenicima ili o modernim “starima” i ponešto konzervativnijim “mladima”

Abstract

In textbooks, oral literature and ways of discussing it may be approached in different ways: by studying methodological approaches, examining the quantity and types of texts, analyzing genre representation, researching examples in relation to linguistic or regional traditions, and comparing this representation to educational curricula. However, this paper will primarily focus on how theoretical insights into oral literature were represented in early textbooks and how they fare when compared to contemporary textbooks. The paper will demonstrate that Croatian early textbooks (from the turn of the century) were fairly well-aligned with contemporary scholarly theoretical and poetic insights and even anticipated some of the later folklorist scholarly findings.

Ključne riječi: textbooks of Croatian language and literature, oral literature, methodical approaches, readers, educational policies