The Beginnings of Institutional Education of Female Children in Serbia Cover Image

Почеци институционалног стручног васпитањa и образовањa женске деце у Србији
The Beginnings of Institutional Education of Female Children in Serbia

Author(s): Slađana Vidosavljević
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Vocational Education, History of Education
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: education of girls in Serbia; education; women’s communities; vocational schools; women’s vocational schools

Summary/Abstract: Institutional vocational education of female children in the Principality of Serbia began in 1846, when the Statute for setting up girl’s education was brought, defining a specific task, organization and content of girlʼs schools. The biggest role in the opening of vocational schools for female children had womenʼs associations – communities. The communities represented humanitarian organizations which took care of the protection of women and their right to enlightenment. Their work is largely tied to the vocational education of female children, school work, management, financing, charitable and humanitarian activities. Women’s communities established the womenʼs vocational schools, which were an important factor for the general education of young women, both in the economic and the cultural-educational plan. The women students who finished vocational schools in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century had the ability to successfully carry out handicraft activities, to be advanced, giving a contribution to the formation of a new, modern society.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 155-156
  • Page Range: 353-361
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Serbian