PROVISIONS OF MAŽURANIĆ'S ACT ON THE ORGANISATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND TEACHER TRAINING SCHOOLS AND LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORKS FOR ENCOURAGING CREATIVITY IN EDUCATION
PROVISIONS OF MAŽURANIĆ'S ACT ON THE ORGANISATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND TEACHER TRAINING SCHOOLS AND LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORKS FOR ENCOURAGING CREATIVITY IN EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: Ivan Mažuranić, Croatian Ban who reigned from 1873-1880 implemented significant reforms in education, administration, and judiciary since his political programme focused on the provision of the modern legal framework for Croatian autonomy. During the second year of his reign, on 19th August 1874, Ban Mažuranić proposed to the Parliament a draft Act on the organisation of public schools and teacher training schools (original in Croatian Zakon ob ustroju pučkih školah i preparandijah), which was adopted and confirmed by the Austrian Emperor and Hungarian-Croatian King Francis Joseph I already on 14th October 1874. That Act is considered to be the first Croatian autonomous school law and one of the most liberal school laws in Europe, as it secured the schools the status of secular institutions.Many of the provisions of that Act are still accurate and applicable in today's Croatian educational system. However, being proposed back then, they caused serious debates and protests of all social classes. A qualitative comparative analysis of the Act on the organisation organization of public schools and teacher training schools and the current Act on education in primary and secondary schools will compare the legislative frameworks for encouraging creativity in education, which provide prerequisites for the creative and autonomous work of teachers. Having passed this law, Ban Mažuranić proved himself to be serious in fulfilling his election promises. Along with other laws enforced in judiciary and administration, this Act opened the way for the modernisation of the former Croatian state and its faster adoption of European standards of a modern civil state.

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