History of Adult Education

Pre-requisites: General Adult Education exam

Course objectives: Introduction into historical development of adult education and learning and understanding the interdependence between learning and education of adults and social, political and economical factors through history.

Course description: Theoretical course: - General and national history of adult education include: - the history of ideas about the education of adults, different theoretical approaches and conceptions; - the history of adult education and learning practice in different periods and societies; - the birth and early development of adult education as a scientific discipline; - Periodical approach to the education of adults: Early civilizations, Ancient Greece and Rome, Middle Ages, humanism and renaissance, reformation, modern age. Biographical approach to the education of adults – Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, J.A. Comenius (Komensky), social utopists, N.F.S. Grundtvig, A. Medinski, M.Buber. – Social movements in education of adults – University extension in England, Folk high schools in Denmark. Free national education in Germany. Practical course: - Resources for studying education and learning of adults – Educational documentation – types, distribution, storage and search.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of the programme, student will: - understand the learning and education of adults as a lifelong and lifewide phenomenon through historical perspective; - acknowledge the legislation and understand which social-historical context shapes the education of adults.

Literature/Reading:

• 1.Zaninović, M., Opća povijest pedagogije, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1988.
• 2.Savićević, D., Koreni i razvoj andragoških ideja, Beograd, 1999.
• 3.Samolovčev, B., Istorijski koreni i tokovi andragoške teorije, InterJu Pres, Beograd, 1993.
• 4.Samolovčev, Obrazovanje odraslih u prošlosti i danas, Znanje, Zagreb, 1963.
• 6.Hrestomatija za Istoriju obrazovanja odraslih
• Mužić, V., Metodologija pedagoških istraživanja, ZzIU, Sarajevo, 1973.
• Milić, V., Sociološki metod, Nolit, Beograd, 1978.
• Popović, K., Istorijska istraživanja u andragogiji, u: Istraživanja u pedagogiji i andragogiji, IPA, Filozofski fakultet, Beograd, 1997.
• Đurić, M., Iz helenskih riznica, Prosveta, Beograd, 1959.
• Ceković-Popović, K., Pojava i rani razvoj ideja o permanentnom obrazovanju, "Andragoške studije", br.1, 1995.
• Antić, D., Cvekić, Lj., Venac Svetog Save, Glas crkve, Šabac, 1988.
• Oven, R., Novi pogled na društvo, Kultura, Zagreb, 1957.
• Bulatović, R., Univerzitet za sve, PFV, Beograd, 1980.
• Medić, S. i Popović, K., Koncepcija narodnog prosvećivanja kod Srba početkom XX veka, “Andragoške studije”, br.1, 1996.
• Samolovčev, Obrazovanje odraslih u prošlosti i danas, Znanje, Zagreb, 1963.
• Grattan, C.H., In Quest of Knowledge. A Historical Perspective on Adult Education, Association Press, New York, 1955.
• Jeger, V., Paideia: oblikovanje grčkog čoveka, Književna zajednica Novog Sada, Novi Sad, 1991.
• Jan Amos Komenski, Pampaedia, Pedagogija br.1, 1970.
• Žlebnik, L., Opšta istorija školstva i pedagoških ideja, Prosveta, Beograd, 1983.
• Despotović, P., Istoriska pedagogika, Dvorska knjižarnica, Beograd, 1902.
• Despotović, P., Istoriska pedagogika, Dvorska knjižarnica, Beograd, 1902.
• Đurić, M., Istorija helenske etike, BIGZ, Beograd, 1976.
• Platon, Država, Kultura, Beograd, 1993.
• Platon, Zakoni, BIGZ, Beograd, 1990.
• Leko, I., Velike revolucije i obrazovanje, ZzIU, Beograd, 1968.
• Zbirka tekstova pedagoških klasika, Beograd, 1960.
• Zaninović, M., Pedagoška hrestomatija, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1985.