THE BEGINNINGS OF INSTITUTIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION OF FEMALE CHILDREN IN SERBIA
THE BEGINNINGS OF INSTITUTIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION OF FEMALE CHILDREN IN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: Institutional vocational education of female children in the Principality of Serbia began in 1846, when the Law on “The Establishment of Schools for Girls” was passed, defining the specific mission, organization and content of girls’ schools. Women’s associations, or communities, played the biggest role in the opening of vocational schools for female children. The communities were humanitarian organizations concerned with the protection of women and their right to enlightenment. Their work was mostly tied to the vocational education of female children, the work of the schools, management, financing, charitable and humanitarian activities. Women’s communities also established their own women’s vocational (craft) schools, which were an important factor for the general education of young women, both on the economic and the cultural education plan. The girls who finished vocational schools in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century gained the ability to successfully practice crafts and, thus, be more progressive, giving a contribution to the formation of a new, modern society.

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