ŠKOLSTVO U POLITIČKOJ DJELATNOSTI POSLANIKA JUGOSLAVENSKE MUSLIMANSKE ORGANIZACIJE U NARODNOJ SKUPŠTINI KRALJEVINE SRBA, HRVATA I SLOVENACA
EDUCATION IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF THE JMO DEPUTIES IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE KINGDOM OF SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES

Summary/Abstract: During the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes education in Bosnia and Herzegovina encountered numerous problems: a lack of qualified teachers, school buildings, teaching tools, the absence of children from school, attempted unification of curricula and textbooks, nationalist activities in schools and so on. The JMO deputees in the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sought to change this situation. They were trying to increase the number of primary and secondary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina so that more children could attend school. They urged for organizing analphabetic courses in order to reduce the number of illiterate persons, as well as for opening and better work of domestic schools. They pointed out a lack of textbooks, weakness in the work of inspectors and supervisors and the uneven ethnic and confessional disposition of teachers at urban and rural schools. The deputees were particularly sharp in pointing out the frequent occurrence of consecration of public schools by the Orthodox priests and asked that “education should be free of politics“. In the National Assembly of the Kingdom of SHS the most active deputees were Džafer Kulenović, Edhem Mulabdić, Fehim Kurbegović, Hamzalija Ajanović, Halid-beg Hrasnica, Hamid Kurbegović and Husein Alić. However, they were very often lonely and misunderstood in the struggle for better education in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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