Socialist educational policy in the autonomous region of Kosovo and Metohija: Goals, objectives, and outcomes

Abstract

This research aims to shed light on the social challenges of school development in Kosovo and Metohija after the Second World War. It examines how the philosophy created in Soviet Union and Western Marxist circles was applied in nationally divided, predominantly agrarian, traditional society, with an extremely high illiteracy rate. The paper also shows how society is impacted when educational policy in a certain area becomes a means for achieving ideological goals. The study is grounded in the unpublished documents of the Archives of Yugoslavia, Archives of Serbia, and the Central State Archives of Albania.

Keywords

• socialist education
• kosovo and metohija
• yugoslavia
• josip broz
• univeristy of priština