Installation research project “From Protomodernisation to Modernisation of Croatia’s School System” (18th and 19th Century) is part of scientific research conducted at Croatian Institute of History in Zagreb. The Project is fully supported by Croatian Science Foundation in duration of three years (September 1st 2014 – August 31st 2017). Project team consists of nine scientists and researchers employed at Croatian Institute of History. The objectives of this project are to determine, using modern methodological approaches and critically analysing archival material, factors that were of crucial importance in the process of creation and functioning of Croatia’s school system and for the influence this system exerted, to evaluate correlation of Croatia’s school system with the school system in the Habsburg Monarchy and its reflection on the network of power in the society in the period of (proto)modernisation.
A research into the problem area of the school system requires a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach that differs essentially from the researches undertaken thus far and closed within the boundaries of the discipline. Thus, pedagogical and sociological researches do not take into account historiographic research and vice versa. Within historiography too, a certain shift must take place and researches into the school system should be approached from different perspectives. The history of the school system needs to be researched in interaction with the researches of cultural, economic, political, social and church history, as well as in interaction with sociological and pedagogical researches. In this way, research of the school system will be given a greater thematic broadness, and particular and one-dimensional researches will be avoided…
In December 2018, Croatian Institute of History published a book on administration and politics in the Kingdoms of Croatia and Slavonia in the 18th century: Ivana Horbec, Prema modernoj državi. Uprava i politika...
In Banska Bystrica, a conference proceedings on Stjepan (Štefan) Moyses have been published, with the paper by Vlasta Švoger “Štefan Moyses and the Section for Education of the Ban’s Council (1848-1850)” presenting a part of...
New volume of the yearbook of Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe, Jahrbuch des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa, is devoted to the theme...
The paper by Ivana Horbec, “Lessons in “Good Policy” for the King’s Servants: Political and Cameral Studies in Croatia (1769-1776)” has been published in Povijesni prilozi – Historical Contributions, vol. 54 (2018.). The full paper is...
Amsterdam University Press has recently published an edited volume Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe. Education, Sociability, and Governance. The editors of the book are Vladislav Rjéoutski (German Historical Institute in Moscow) and Willem Frijhoff (University of...
On Thursday, 22 February 2018 at Croatian School Museum our project team has presented the results of the project From Proto-Modernisation to Modernisation of Croatia’s School System in the period financed by the Croatian...
