Dr Đorđe Natošević: Supervisor of elementary schools in Serbia

• Main Author: Vujisić-Živković Nataša
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pedagoško društvo Srbije i Institut za pedagogiju i andragogiju Filozofskog fakulteta Univerziteta u Beogradu 2015-01-01
• Series: Nastava i Vaspitanje
• Subjects: Đorđe Matošević (1821 - 1887); elementary schools in the Princedom of Serbia; school supervision
• Online Access: http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0547-3330/2015/0547-33301504823V.pdf

Dr Đorđe Matošević's supervision of elementary schools in Serbia during 1867/68 academic year differed from previous inspections because it was conducted according to the order of the ruler, prince Mihailo, and the wish of this most prominent Serbian pedagogue in order to make a decisive step in reforming Serbian schools. The preserved Matošević's reports were analyzed as historical sources of the first rank, and now are presented to our scientific community for the first time. Our research shows that Đorđe Matošević's reports enable a realistic insight in elementary school practice in the Princedom of Serbia, and are important testiomonies of educational conditions near the end of the seventh decade of the nineteen century. On the other hand, since they always contained suggestions for fundamental reforming of elementary-school education, Đorđe Matošević's reports are an important model for researching the origins of permanent institutions of pedagogic education and modern didactic - methodological concepts in Serbia in the last three decades of the nineteenth century.