Univerzitet u Bosni i Hercegovini između moći i nemoći obrazovanja
University in Bosnia and Herzegovina: between the power and impotence of education

Summary/Abstract: The following work will offer three perspectives or broader contexts within which this important issue of understanding the relationship between dominant ideology and the educational process could be understood and, potentially, open possible directions for changing the entire process along the lines of critical approach elements. The first perspective briefly outlines some key aspects of the intertwining of ideology and the university, using the example of ‘faculties of political or social sciences’ through the socialist, and then contemporary capitalist, or ethnonationalist period. The second part concerns the conceptual analysis of the notion of ‘humanism’ and the duality of the concept of ‘education’ that arises from it, one critical and the other ideological. The third part, only in outlines, attempts to offer some solutions along the lines of John Dewey’s democratic educational theory. Almost no author, such as John Dewey, has deeply considered the importance of education in ‘empowering’ citizenship in its capacities for freely shaping its political community in a participatory-democratic manner.

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