Open AccessZaharija Orfelin’s primer and its place in Serbian cultural history
Author(s) -
Saša Janjić
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi1604159j
Subject(s) - serbian , enlightenment , proclamation , viewpoints , cultural history , context (archaeology) , sociology , history , social science , classics , anthropology , political science , linguistics , law , epistemology , philosophy , art , archaeology , visual arts
The paper illuminates the enlightenment work of Zaharija Orfelin from the viewpoints of broader cultural and historical and narrower linguistic and didactic guidelines. In the social context of 18th-century Serbia, which cannot be considered one-sided, amidst the fusion of cultural values of the East and West, Orfelin conceptualized the key of national values in education. The Primer is more than the first book - it is a latent proclamation of the coming of the Enlightenment ideas. The aim of this work is point to the fact that in the cultural history of Serbia he was the precursor of modern Serbian language teaching long before it came to life in our modern teaching under the influence of foreign methodologists