New Psychopedagogical Perspective for the National Education during the Albanian Renaissance

Abstract

The aim of this purpose is to give a panorama of the new perspective of educational system during the Albanian Renaissance (1878-1912), more specifically represented through the first pedagogical high school of Elbasan and the new criteria of the masses educational initiations. The main hypothesis of this study is that during this period, through the efforts of the Albanian patriots, it was possible to build the first foundations of national education and reappraise the Albanian’s ideological and pedagogical education upon the European educational approaches. To test this hypothesis was evaluated the Albanian paper or textbooks published during this new historical and cultural period, compared with some studies carried out by Italian scholars of the same period. At the end it was demonstrated that the intellectual of Albanian Renaissance pursued a similar path to the Italian from the point of view of the ferment of ideas for school reforms only regarding the content of the proposals, since the initiative did not come, as in the case of the Italian reforms, from government but by the Albanian nationalists club, which perhaps was inspired by the reforms of the Italian government, since most of the Albanian intellectuals studied or worked with the arbëresh of Italy.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2p301