Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini (Jan 2011)
Serbs in education during the Turkish government
Abstract
This paper aims to present opportunities cultural educational social policy and the Serbian people during the Turkish government. The intention is also to investigate the extent and level of education - literacy through the process of learning, reading, writing and acquiring new knowledge. The paper will also be discussed and the impact of other counters and their schools (Russia, Germany, Greece) on the entire educational system in Serbia in the Serbian education period. Legal regulation and development of spiritual awareness and desire for literacy, will also find its place in this paper. Based on all the foregoing, it follows that the literacy during the Ottoman rule was very limited, and that the small number and percentage of population of certain social groups (nobility, clergy). There fore education was meager and insignificant, that and that, as concept, was reduced to literacy. Also, the church was the meeting place of all those who strove for literacy, and together with the monasteries of the first and only school in which they were taught reading and writing. During the First Serbian Uprising, except churches, the need for some kind of education begins to have, and government or authority which forms a first and basic institution of society. Looking at the wider development of literacy in Serbia can be concluded that education had its ups and downs, which are periodically changed depending on the social and political conditionally. Thus, at the close of the Middle Ages to the territorial possession of Despot Stefan Lazarevic (1389-1427) and its owner George Brankovic (1427-1456), with constant theats to the Turkish conquest occurred one interesting moment. Thjere is still an independent country, and despite the double vassalage to Turkey and Hungary, has seen a tumultuous economy and education rise, which was also the basis for the rise of Serbia culture. In the Serbian despots then we come to real cult of art and education, as earlier periods are not known. In conclusion it also poses the fact that Serbian teachers from Austrija were the pioneers of education and literacy in Serbia. They are indebted to Serbian culture, not only in the field of education but also in healthcare, government, literature, art, etc. For Serbia, where in 1804. began its process of national liberation and cultural awakening, surely it can be concluded, among other things, that it s parallel with its general social development proceeded and the development of its education and development of education and enlightenment, which in its role was always a natural support and indispensable factor in the statehood and grow into a formulation.
