From the History of Adult Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Most Remarkable Institutions and Activities (1918-1941) Cover Image

Iz istorije obrazovanja odraslih u Bosni i Hercegovini: najznačajnije ustanove i delatnosti (1918-1941)
From the History of Adult Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Most Remarkable Institutions and Activities (1918-1941)

Author(s): Željko Bralić, Ljubinka Katić
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Adult Education, History of Education
Published by: JU ‘’Bosanski kulturni centar Kantona Sarajevo’’
Keywords: adult education; Bosnia and Herzegovina; historical-andragogical research institutions; cultural-educational societies;

Summary/Abstract: The work contents a presentation of the main outcomes of an extensive historical-andragogical research, mainly based on the archival documents kept in Archives of Yugoslavia. An overview of adult education practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina is shaped from the documents data concerning the most significant institutions and activities organized as an attempt to contribute to general education goals in Kingdom od Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - Yugoslavia between two wars, through andragogical educational activities: raising the general level of literacy and education praxis at the time mostly rested upon literacy courses, people's universities, cultural-educational societies, etc. This paper especially distinguishes andragogical activity of momentous and respectable Sarajevo-based cultural-educational establishments (People's university, Gajret, Prosveta, Napredak), that were amongst the most significant and successful in Yugoslavia, and represented example of model work in adult education of the interwar period.

  • Issue Year: XVIII/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 75-102
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Serbian