Nepoznati Šulek: naučitelj odhranjivanja i obučavatelj čitanja
The Unknown Bogoslav Šulek: An Educator and Methodologist of Initial Literacy

Summary/Abstract: Bogoslav Šulek is recognised as a linguist, lexicographer and publicist. His lexicological work earned him the title of father of Croatian scientific terminology. However, his work in didactics as a general theory of school teaching and learning, and in the teaching methodology of initial reading in Croatian, has not yet been adequately researched. This part of Šulek’s work is the subject of the current article, in particular two books that he published in Zagreb in 1850: Naputak za one, koji uče čitati [Instructions for Those Who Are Learning to Read] and Mala čitanka za početnike [A Little Reader for Beginners]. In them, Šulek presented a new method of initial reading – the “Lautir-Methode”, or phonics. With this method, reading is taught so that the sound of the letter is pronounced, not its name. When Šulek’s books are considered in the context of the didactics of initial reading skills at that time, we can conclude that they were a turning point in the history of the methodology of teaching literacy in Croatian.

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