Девическите занаятчийски практически училища – един успешен социален и държавен експеримент в България (90-те год. ХІХ – 40-те год. на ХХ в.)
Girls' vocational schools – a successful social and governmental experiment in Bulgaria (1890s-1940s)

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the girls’ vocational education in Bulgaria, and specifically the girls’ vocational (crafts) schools, founded and operated in the 1890-1940s. The main aim is to study them as a social phenomenon from the perspective either of the state policy for the creation and improvement of the vocational education in the country or of realization of one of the essential goals of the movement for equality of women in the field of education and labor. Girls' vocational schools had given a profession to poor girls from the social periphery, had protected them from prostitution and unemployment, had motivated them to enter into hired work or to become independent entrepreneurs, had encouraged them to develop their skills in arts and crafts, had urged them to disseminate their knowledge through periodicals, separate publications, courses, exhibitions, etc. The paper is focused on several aspects of girls’ vocational education: the group of teachers representing the Bulgarian female educated elites; some of the personalities managing the girls’ vocational schools; the state policy stages. Case studies on some state, municipal, private and societies’ schools will be added. The survey is based mainly on unused archival records from governmental and personal archives, complemented by legal documents, statistics, periodicals, memoirs etc.

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