Slovenian Schools

Figure 1.--This photograph was taken in Cerknica, southwestern Slovenia, during Spring 1956. It shows a 3rd year class at Lower Grammar School (Nižje Gimnazije). It is the 7th grade meaning mostly 12-13 year olds. At the time many pupils attending primary school and the lower secondary grades went to school barefoot. It was less common among teenagers. Slovenia, then part of Communist Yugoslavia, was the most prosperous part of the country. Unlike much of Western Europe, however, it was not keeping up with the economic progressuve of Western Europe.

We have no information on Slovenia education during the medieval era. Our information only comes from the 19th century during the Asustro-Hungarian Empire era. Public education was a relatively new phemomenon, unlike Prussian and the northern (Protestant) German states. The Austria Law on Primary School Education (1869) not only accelerated the cultural development in Austria, especially in rural areas, but also in the Crown lands including much of modern Slovenia. The primary schools established were coeducational schools and brought education opportunities into rural areas with the creation of many village schools. Secondary education continued to be limited to urban areas and mostly middle- and upper-class children--largely boys. The principal secondary school was as in Germany the gymnasium. The language of instruction was German. Soon after World War I and the establishment of Kingdom of the Southern Slavs/Yugoslavia (1918), the process of using the local languages began. In the case of Slovenia it meant the Slovenisation of the existing Austrian education system. This mean secondary education in Slovenian. In addition the Slovenian University was organized. The existing Austrian education system was not significantly changed except the language of instruction. It is no accident that Slovenia was the best educated and most literate part of Yugoslavia. Slovenia was the only part of Yugoslavia associated with Austria. (Croatia was associated with Hungary and Bosnia was only rcently annexed in 1908.) Strangely the first major educationl reform was the Yugoslav Educational Law (1958). This occurred well into the Communist era. The principal change was to shift student choice to aater point in the educational pricess. The Austriam imperial system offered a variety of choices only during the compulsory primary phase. The new Yugoslav system which was mandated for each of the states in the federation shifted differentiation from age 11 years to 15 year olds. It only increased eucational opportunities for most children. Yugoslav educators describe it as replacing a hard transition with a softer process whuch increased the nunber of children in the secondary schools. [Gabrič]

Sources

Gabrič, Alen. "The education system in Slovenia in the 20th century", DR, Vol. XVI (2000) 32-33.






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