Creating the new (Slavic) world through education. A comparison of the educational discussions between the Slovenes and the Czechs
Abstrakt
When the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy collapsed at the end of the First World War, there were 12 nations living there, including Slovenes and Czechs. The Slovenes joined the South Slavic nations in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the Czechs, together with the Slovaks, established the multinational Czechoslovak Republic.
In the new Europe, new coalitions - political, cultural and also educational - were also sought and supported. Czech and Yugoslav collaboration was also an important issue.
This was based on the rich collaboration in the 19th century in the so-called Slavic (sometimes PanSlavic) discussion. The following article reconstructs the Czech and Slovenian collaboration and transfer of pedagogical ideas and experiences in the interwar period (especially in the field of school reform), framed by the collaboration of both nations in the 19th century.
The school reform in Czechoslovakia and Slovenia is reconstructed against the background of the academic discussion at that time (the dispute over empirical and philosophical educational sciences). The next goal is to compare the "architecture" of the school reform plans in both countries in the context of the academic pedagogical discussion.
The professional contacts between Czech and Slovenian teachers in the interwar period are analyzed. The networking between the Czechoslovak and Slovenian teachers was quite intensive at that time, also thanks to the intensive collaboration of between school reform leaders - the Czech pedagogue Vaclav Prihoda and the Slovenian pedagogue Gustav Silih.
The visits of Slovenian teachers to the Czech reform schools and the lectures of the Czech school reform architects in Slovenia show that the reform pedagogical transfer between Czechoslovakia and Slovenia was intense.