The master’s thesis is trying to illustrate home-school collaboration based on pedagogical journals published in the years between 1919 and 1941, namely between World War I and World War II. During this time, the Slovenes were facing many changes in all areas of their lives. World War I had also affected the educational field, including the strategies of home-school collaboration which had already started to develop. In addition to thematizing the contemporary situation, through the analysis of the articles published in the most recognized pedagogical journals, Popotnik and Pedagoški zbornik, the thesis is trying to explain why authors focused on this topic, what forms schools were using for the purpose of collaboration and what obstacles stood in their way. Additionally, it deals with the legislation regulating the area of collaboration as well as the qualifications of the teachers. Before the in-depth analysis and interpretation, the thesis presents the basic concepts of home-school collaboration as they are understood today. The final interpretation connects the modern and the historical points of view. It seems as if there are not many differences in 20th and 21st centuries, despite the time lag. Just as it is emphasized today that parents are important factors in the school environment, their role used to be recognized in the past. In the period between the world wars, the benefits that their participation brought to pupils were emphasized. Both, formal and informal, forms of participations remain the same as well as some barriers. Nowadays, the educational institutions are striving for a better home-school collaborative partnership. The collaboration itself is a complex concept that depends on several objective and subjective factors. The partnership between home and school could be seen as the ideal concept we are aiming at, but it is hard to achieve.
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