EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL POLICY IN CROATIA FROM 1945 TO 1948

Članak problematizira prosvjetnu i kulturnu politiku u Hrvatskoj od 1945. do 1948. godine. Osobito se istražuje uloga školskog sustava, akcije »narodnog prosvjećivanja« i protureligioznost kao sastavnice prosvjetne politike.From 1945 to 1948, the Communist Party of Croatia conducted educational and cultural policy through a centralized, ideological system that was in part a system of socialist transformation. The aspiration to full literacy, education of the masses, and antireligiousity characterized educational policy; the concept of »national enlightenment« unified these directives. In addition to educational goals based on a real lack of national education, the politics of »national enlightenment« was primarily pragmatic because it was connected with achieving a desired political consciousness, changing the traditional structure of the village, and legitimazing the new government