ЕМАНЦИПАЦИЈА ДЕЦЕ КАО ДРУШТВЕНЕ ГРУПЕ У СВЕТЛУ СПРОВОЂЕЊА ЗВАНИЧНЕ ПОЛИТИКЕ ОБРАЗОВАЊА И ВАСПИТАЊА У СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКОЈ ЈУГОСЛАВИЈИ
THE EMANCIPATION OF CHILDREN AS A SOCIAL GROUP IN THE LIGHT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OFFICIAL POLICY OF EDUCATION AND UPBRINGING IN SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA

Author(s): Sanja Petrović Todosijević
Subject(s): History, Education, School education, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Childhood; school reform; education policy; UNESCO; Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia; Children's International Summer Village; International Meeting of Friends of the Children of Yugoslavia
Summary/Abstract: The paper represents an attempt to point out the demographic and social characteristics of children as a social group in the first decade after the end of the Second World War, in order to more clearly highlight the reasons that led to the (un)expected emancipation of children and childhood in socialist Yugoslavia. The paper will highlight the major reform of the school system (1953-1958) as a framework for the implementation of the new policy of growing up. It will be pointed out the role played by the United Nations Organization through its Agency for Education, Science and Culture in the process of defining new criteria for growing up in Yugoslavia, as well as the role played by the reformed Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia, as one of the main “leverages” for the implementation of the official education policy and education, had in the process of internationalizing the politics of growing up in Yugoslavia and bringing the Yugoslav child to the international stage.

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