History of education. State of the art in East and South East Europe: introducing the special issue

ABSTRACT

This text introduces the special issue “History of Education. State of the art in East and South East Europe”. This issue includes some contributions that were originally presented in the international scientific conference entitled “History of Education as a Scientific Pedagogical Discipline and as a Teaching Subject – Past, Present and Perspectives” held in Montenegro (University of Montenegro) in 2019. These articles provide an overview of the history of education as a scientific discipline of education, as an academic discipline of pedagogy and as a field of pedagogical research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in Eastern and Southeastern European countries, highlighting its main development stages, problems, contexts, themes and actors.

KEYWORDS:

• History of education
• pedagogy
• teaching subject
• Europe

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Notes

¹ Vučina Zorić, ed., History of Education as a Scientific Pedagogical Discipline and a Teaching Subject – Past, Present and Perspectives (Book of Abstracts) (Nikšić: Faculty of Philosophy – University of Montenegro, 2019).

² Edvard Protner and Marjan Krašna, eds., Book of Abstracts (International Scientific Conference “The Development of Teacher Education in the Countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe”, 11–13 October 2012, Maribor, Slovenia. Organiser: Department of Pedagogy, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor) (Maribor: University of Maribor, 2012); Nataša Vujisić Živković, ed., The Book of Abstracts (International Scientific Symposium “Socialistic Education and Pedagogy in Former Yugoslavia 1945–1990”, 15–16 November 2014, Belgrade, Serbia. Organiser: Institute of Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade) (Belgrade: Institute of Pedagogy and Andragogy – Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, 2014); Edvard Protner and Marjan Krašna, eds., Book of Abstracts (International Scientific Conference “Between Tradition and Future Challenges: The Study of Pedagogy in Central and South-East Europe”, 22–24 October 2015, Maribor, Slovenia. Organiser: Department of Pedagogy, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor) (Maribor: University of Maribor, 2015); Igor Radeka, Štefka Batinić, Edvard Protner, and Vučina Zorić, eds., Book of Abstracts (International Scientific Symposium “Alternative Pedagogical Concept in the territory of the former Yugoslavia”, 4–5 November 2016, Zadar, Croatia. Organiser: Department of Pedagogy – University of Zadar) (Zadar: University of Zadar, 2016); and Edvard Protner, Jernej Kovač, and Marjan Krašna, eds., Book of Abstracts (International Scientific Conference “Studies in Pedagogy – Traces of the Past and Future Prospects”, 26–27 November 2017, Maribor, Slovenia. Organisers: Department of Pedagogy at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Maribor in Cooperation with the Slovenian Pedagogical Association and the Slovenian Educational Research Association) (Maribor: University of Maribor Press, 2017); 2nd International Scientific and Professional Conference “Ka novim iskoracima u odgoju i obrazovanju”, 5–6 October 2018, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Organiser: Odsjek za pedagogiju – Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu; i Ministarstvo za obrazovanje, nauku i mlade Kantona Sarajevo.

³ Edvard Protner and others, “Primerjava razvoja izobraževanja učiteljev v državah nekdanje Jugoslavije”, Šolska kronika 21, no. 1–2 (2012): 82–100; and Edvard Protner and others, “Bologna Reform of Subject Teacher Education in the Newly Founded States in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia”, Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja 46, no. 1 (2014): 7–28.

⁴ Anali za povijest odgoja 12, no. 2 (2013); Sodobna pedagogika 66/132, no. 2 (2015); Sodobna pedagogika 67/133, no. 3 (2016); and Acta Iadertina 14, no. 1 (2017).

⁵ Edvard Protner, ed., Razvoj i aktualne tendencije pedagogije i skolstva na podrucju nekadasnje Jugoslavije (Maribor: Univerza v Mariboru, 2020).

⁶ International Symposium “Teacher Training in Europe – Historical Background, Development and Actual Reforms”, 7–9 October 2011, Eger, Hungary. Organiser: Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest; International Scientific Symposium “Education and Schooling in the Hand-Cuffs of Totalitarian Beliefs and Systems”, 1–2 June 2015, Liberec, Czech Republic. Organiser: Technical university of Liberec; Blanka Kudláčová and Marek Wiesenganger, eds., Conference Programme and Abstracts (International Scientific Symposium “Continental Pedagogy – Its Issues and Challenges Through the Lens of History and Philosophy”, 17–18 November 2016, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia. Organisers: Trnava University in Trnava, Faculty of Education in a partnership with Central European Philosophy of Education Society) (Trnava: Trnava University in Trnava – Faculty of Education, 2016); International Scientific Symposium “New Education and New School in New Europe”, 20–21 September 2018, Prague, Czech Republic. Organisers: The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports; Faculty of Sciences, Humanities and Education – Technical University Liberec; and National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J. A. Comenius in Prague; Blanka Kudláčová and Anna Sádovská, eds., Book of Abstracts (International Scientific Conference “Education in Totalitarian Ideologies of the 20th Century”, 17–18 October 2019, Smolenice, Slovakia. Organisers: Trnava University in Trnava, Faculty of Education in a partnership with Central European Philosophy of Education Society) (Trnava: Trnava University in Trnava; Bratislava: VEDA publishing house of Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2019); etc.

⁷ History of Education & Children’s Literature 8, no. 1 (2013); Historia scholastica 2, no. 1 (2016); Historia scholastica 5, no. 1 (2019); and History of Education & Children’s Literature 16, no. 1 (2021).

⁸ András Németh and Ehrenhard Skiera, eds., Lehrerbildung in Europa – Geschichte, Struktur und Reform (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2012); Tomáš Kasper and Marketa Pánková, eds., Učitel ve střední a jihovýchodní Evropě (Praha: The Academia – Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic & Národní pedagogické museum a knihovna J.A. Komenského, 2015); Blanka Kudláčová and Andrej Rajsky, eds., Education and “Pädagogik” – Philosophical and Historical Reflections (Central, Southern and South-Eastern Europe) (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers; and Bratislava: VEDA Publishing house of Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2019); and Tomáš Kasper, Ehrenhard Skiera, and Gerald Grimm, eds., Lehrerbildung im europaischen Kontext (Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, 2019).

⁹ Gert Biesta, “Disciplines and Theory in the Academic Study of Education: A Comparative Analysis of the Anglo-American and Continental Construction of the Field”, Pedagogy, Culture & Society 19, no. 2 (2011): 175–192.

¹⁰ Blanka Kudláčová and Andrej Rajsky, “Introduction”, in Education and “Pädagogik” – Philosophical and Historical Reflections (Central, Southern and South-Eastern Europe), eds. Blanka Kudláčová and Andrej Rajsky (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers; and Bratislava: VEDA Publishing house of Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2019), 11–20; see also Zdenko Kodelja, “What is Philosophy of Education?”, ivi, 23–31.

¹¹ Marc Depaepe and Frank Simon, “Is there any Place for the History of ‘Education’ in the ‘History of Education’? A Plea for the History of Everyday Educational Reality In- and Outside Schools”, Paedagogica Historica 31, no. 1 (1995): 9–16, 10.

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Notes on contributors

Vučina Zorić

Vučina Zorić is Full Professor of History of Education in the Department of Pedagogy, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro.

Edvard Protner

Edvard Protner is Full Professor of History of Education and Head of the Department of Education at the University of Maribor, Slovenia.

Simonetta Polenghi

Simonetta Polenghi is Full Professor of History of Education in the Department of Education at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy.

Antonio Fco Canales

Antonio Fco Canales is Full Professor of History of Education at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He is currently a member of the ISCHE Executive Committee.