State and Christian enlightenment : background of the mass elementary education in Central Europe

Malmenvall, Simon (author)

Mass elementary education powered by the state - one of the cornerstones of the processes of modernization - began to be established in continental Europe in the late eighteenth century. Increasingly centralized political institutions, with the decisive assistance of the school network, gradually created a bourgeois-industrial society centered on the performance-oriented individual committed to the state. The key to the spread of the school network and literacy was the coordination between Enlightenment ideas, state authorities, and ecclesiastical organizations. The situation in the Central European environments under consideration - Austria (part of which was also the territory of present-day Slovenia), Prussia, and other German lands - shows that the social role of education was strengthened by reform types of Christianity, which, based on the pursued harmony between the Church and State, sought to create a rational, industrious, and morally responsible individual.

• Language: English
• Keywords: General School Ordinance (1774), school reforms, Central Europe, Enlightenment, Christianity, reform Catholicism, elementary education, history
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: In print
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 807-822
• Numbering: Letn. 84, [št.] 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-166271
• UDC: 37:316.42:27
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2024/04/Malmenvall
• COBISS.SI-ID: 220625667
• Publication date in RUL: 30.12.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik : glasilo Teološke fakultete v Ljubljani
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Teološka fakulteta
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Država in krščansko razsvetljenstvo : ozadje množičnega osnovnega šolstva v srednji Evropi

Abstract

Množično dostopno državno osnovno šolstvo - eden od temeljnih gradnikov procesov modernizacije - se je v celinski Evropi začelo vzpostavljati ob koncu 18. stoletja. Vse bolj centralizirane politične institucije so z odločilno pomočjo šolske mreže postopoma ustvarile meščansko-industrijsko družbo, v katere središču se je nahajal storilnostno naravnan in državi predan posameznik. Za širjenje šolske mreže in pismenosti je bila ključna usklajenost med razsvetljenskimi idejami, državnimi oblastmi in cerkvenimi organizacijami. Stanje v obravnavanih srednjeevropskih okoljih - Avstriji (katere del je bilo tudi ozemlje današnje Slovenije), Prusiji in drugih nemških deželah - kaže, da so družbeno vlogo izobraževanja krepile reformne oblike krščanstva, ki so si na podlagi želene skladnosti med Cerkvijo in državo prizadevale ustvariti racionalnega, delavnega in moralno odgovornega posameznika.

• Keywords: Splošni šolski red (1774), šolske reforme, srednja Evropa, razsvetljenstvo, krščanstvo, reformno katolištvo, osnovno izobraževanje, zgodovina

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P6-0269
• Name: Religija, etika, edukacija in izzivi sodobne družbe

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J5-4595
• Name: Med tradicijo in moderno: slovenski katoliški intelektualci in narodnostno vprašanje v transnacionalni perspektivi (1848−1948)