The work of Serbian schools in Peć and its surroundings from the beginning until 1907

Abstract

Summary: Pedagogical life in Kosovo and Metohija took place under specific and unsettled political, economic and cultural conditions. However, starting from the point of view that the education system in Kosovo and Metohija was conditioned by the great inherited cultural and educational backwardness and the ethnic diversity of the population, the efforts of the educational policy are focused both on the development of the school network, the improvement of education, literacy, school education, as well as on drawing out the population from centuries of cultural and educational backwardness. Starting from this point of view, the basic task and content of the work is dedicated to the treatment of the problems of schooling and education in Peć and its surroundings from its beginning until 1907, which mainly related to a limited number of Serbian schools and education that was one-sided in its content. The emphasis was on a more detailed analysis of teaching work, attendance, number of pupils, teaching staff, conditions in which the educational process was carried out. The subject of the research is to open up many life questions, both questions about the development of education, and about the development of this region, which is somewhat neglected. One of the subjects of the research was to save the development of schooling from insidious and fatal oblivion as a source of preservation and development of the national and cultural identity of a people, guardian and promoter of civilizational achievements, universal and humanistic values.