A Turi Alma Mater
The First Protestant School in Hungary
Author(s): Sándor BodorikSubject(s): History of Education
Published by: Hungarian Educational Research Association (HERA)
Keywords: Education in Central and Eastern Europe; history of education; history of the Calvinist church; rural development
Summary/Abstract: The Great Plains in the heart of Hungary was a lively territory before the XVI century Osman occupation and became the ‘puszta’ after it. Calvinist recreated their community when they turned back from their escape. The Grammar School turned to be the centre of their cultural and community life. Communists after WWII nationalised the school and reorganised it to a vocational training place. After the political turn of 1989-90 the instituion wnet back to the Calvinist church. The present Calvinist community tries to put its school again to the centre of the community life.
Journal: HERJ Hungarian Educational Research Journal
- Issue Year: 7/2017
- Issue No: suppl. 2
- Page Range: 11-26
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Hungarian