The Development Of Education In Kosovo By The End Of Serbian Dominion And In The Beginnings Of Ottoman Rule
The Development Of Education In Kosovo By The End Of Serbian Dominion And In The Beginnings Of Ottoman Rule

Summary/Abstract: The condition of education in Albanian territories before and afterottoman invasion of the country reflects the change of existing socialstructures and the beginning of the process of building new ones. Thesechanges were reflected in education system as well.Due to the contradiction that Papati and catholic powers of Europe madeupon Ottoman invasion in Balkan, the High Gate held a hostile attitudetowards catholic church, while Patriarchana recognized the Ottoman rule andthe rights of the orthodox people to govern a spiritual life for themselves. Inthe first years of Ottoman rule, the Catholic Church and schools financedfrom it, survived only in several civic centers and in rural areas where theauthority of Ottoman administration was not settled yet. Meanwhile, schoolsthat were kept from orthodox clerics still continued their activities, althoughthey decreased in number, as a result of the dominion.In the meantime, with the beginning of the process of Islamization the firstOttoman schools were born. The presence of Muslim religious schools inTurkish-Arab languages, of catholic ones in Latin and orthodox ones inSlavic, influenced a growth in the educational level of population.But, the presence of Slavic schools in pressure conditions of Islamizationmade that a part of Albanian community to assimilate in Serbs. In theseoccurrences, religious education of this period was linked tight with thedevelopment of the events in the land and had a distinct political character.In this case it should be emphasized that due to the the specifications of thehistorical development in Kosovo, islamic education did not follow thenatural process of transition to national education. In conclusion, it ought tobe noted that, in the brink of the ottoman conquest and in the first years ofthe Ottoman rule, it continued educational tradition and Albanians had theirclerics and their educated men, who performed the function of the teacherand they gave the education in foreign language the features of theenvironment and of the Albanian tradition.

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