History of Modern European Education

Pre-requisites: Passed exams by program and department standards at the Univ. Of Philosophy

Course objectives: This subject will explore the development of education in Europe from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. Education will be approached as a specific cultural idea.

Course description: Theoretical component: Examining modernization as a process and social theory (deconstructing the theoretical model and research),the enlightenment, romanticism and the position of children. The age of revolution – education during the beginning of the 19th century (France, Germany, England, Austria, Russia). Education and the creation of a country – the Serbian revolution. Education in Europe in the second half of the 19th century. Modernization of education in the Dukedom and Kingdom of Serbia at the end of the 19th century. Progressive education (origins and development). Educational institutions for war orphans in Serbia in the second half of the 19th century. The role and place of religion in scholastic upbringing., Education in the USA, Education in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century (Germany, AustroHungarian Empire, England, Bulgaria, Greece). Education in Serbia at the beginning of the 20th century (creation of the academic elite, history of private lives). Writing papers.

Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course, students will be capable of independently conducting academic research by applying a new theoretical model of research to studying social phenomena;producing and publishing scientific articles and conducting professional services in the framework of cultural and educational institutions.

Literature/Reading:

• J.Bowen (1981),History of Western Education, Vol.3, Methuen&Co.Ltd,London
• A.Đurović,Modernizacija obrazovanja u Kraljevini Srbiji 1905-1914,Istorijski institut,Beograd 2004.
• G.Gutek (1994), A History of Western Educational Experience,Second Edition (Prospect Heights:Waveland Press),
• A.Djurovic,Eva Matthes (Hrsg.), Freund-und Feindbilder in Schulbüchern, Klinkhardt, 2010.
• E.Matthes,C.Heinze,Johann Friedrich Herbart :Umriß pädagogischer Vorlesungen,Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft,Darmstadt 2003.
• A.Djurovic,Family in Serbian Textbooks by the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Century, in: Matthes, Eva, Heinze, Carsten ( Hrsg.) : Die Familie im Schulbuch, Bad Heilbrunn 2006, S.159-181.
• H.Cunningham,M.Morpurgo,The Invention of Childhood,BBC Books,London 2006.
• Lj.Trgovčević,Obrazovanje kao činilac modernizacijeSrbije u 19.veku , u:Srbija u modernizacijskim procesima 20.veka, Beograd 1994,217-233.