Български образователни проекти през XIX век: културен трансфер Европа - България
Bulgarian educational projects in the 19th century: cultural transfer Europe - Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: Exchanges in the field of education have contributed to the spread of new ideas on social progress in Europe in the 19th century. Bulgarians then studying abroad adopted those ideas, which were then incorporated in the creation of a new type of Bulgarian school. In fact, certain educational projects underlay the new school institution. Bulgarian projects bore on the social sensibility of European philanthropy: universal moral values, common action in the name of social progress, united efforts in the name of human community. These projects were at the root of the national identification of Bulgarians, because they stimulated the process of cultural differentiation. Analyzed are several differing (if not antinomic) European conceptions of language, nation and nationality; the "German" and "French" approaches to these problems represent two mirror-images; these conceptions made possible the identification of Bulgarian national traits and mentality in the historical sources. According to eminent Bulgarian intellectuals of the time (P. Beron, V. Aprilov, I. Seliminski, A. Exarch, etc.), the national language is both a natural phenomenon and deliberately cultivated through education; the nation is an alloy of the German Volkstum and the French nationalité. In short, the Bulgarian educational projects were simultaneously a product and a vector of cultural transfers in 19th century.

• Details
• Contents