Abstract:

The new educational-ethical movement with special concept of the adult education appeared in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the two world wars. The founder of this movement was Miljenko Vidović who had brave ideas to modernize schools, work on common people education, on art promotion and the newspaper’s organization. Target group of Vidović’s educational attempts were labourers and employees. When it comes to education, the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina was extremely difficult in 1919. Therefore, Vidović’s intention was to connect teaching contents with a real life in order to educate a human being as independent individual. Vidović and his followers considered schools of that time as institutions without life, light and intimacy. According to them, these schools were full of „scholastic inflexibility, scientific discipline and diffident that only sterilized strong affirmation of will and emotion on which educational success was dependant“. This movement made contradicted affection in BiH publicity. The magazine Uzgajatelj (1923-1926) dealt with the issues of the Reform’s pedagogy within the context of a general social and cultural development. I would like to research in which extent Vidović and his followers influenced the changes in BiH schooling in the mentioned period of time and to uncover the influence of this movement that was also called a ‘right road’. Nevertheless, the movement faced a serious critics and accusation that it presented only plain plagiarism of a foreign philosophical attitudes and not at all „a temple built by common people who ensured right content and form to it.“

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