Пионирски град у Загребу педесетих година 20. века: лабораторија социјалистичког детињства

• Main Author: Sanja Petrović Todosijević
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije 2021-04-01
• Series: Токови историје
• Subjects: ioneer; pioneer town; child; childhood; third plenum of the cpy central committee; commission for educational reform; general law on education; parents
• Online Access: http://tokovi.istorije.rs/lat/uploaded/1%202021/10%20Tokovi%20istorije%201%202021,%2029.%204.%202021_10%20%C4%8Clanak%20Sanja%20Petrovi%C4%87%20Todosijevi%C4%87.pdf

This paper attempts to underline the role that the Pioneer Town in Zagreb played in the process of establishing a new educational policy in Yugoslavia proclaimed at the Third Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in December 1949. This reform was carried out during the following decade, culminating in the General Law on Education in 1958. The Pioneer Town in Zagreb, with its elementary school as the central object, “simulated” a school of the future which was supposed to become not only a role model for the standard Yugoslav school, but also the initiator of the important social processes with the aim of placing children ‒ one of the most numerous social groups‒ at the center of political and social attention.