UDK 37.014.6(497.4):929 Maier A.
PROTNER Edvard, Ph.D., Assistant for General Education and the History of Education, University in Maribor, Faculty of Education, Koroška c. 160, 2000 Maribor, SloveniaSupervisor Anton Maier and the formal steps
ŠOLSKA KRONIKA - School Chronicle: Miscellany for the History of Schooling and Education, Ljubljana, 8 / XXXII / 1999, No. 1, pp 16-31
Original in Slovenian, Summary in German, Abstract in English
A series of articles published in the period between 1911 and 1914 in the liberal publication Učiteljski tovariš (‘The Teacher’s Friend’) represent a severe criticism of the competence, personality, and professional and political attitudes of Anton Maier, at the time a supervisor of primary schools in Ljubljana. Clearly, the Herbartian formal steps which were being introduced into schools in Carniola after 1901 were rejected by teachers because of Maier's aggressive behaviour and because his requests were questionable in professional terms. One of his demands was for teachers to tell him, upon his entering their classrooms, which formal step they were dealing with. The majority of other school supervisors (especially in other Slovenian provinces) did not interpret the formal steps in such a dogmatic, schematic and mechanical way. Maier and many other school supervisors were criticised by teachers for behaving in a threatening and politically-biased way.
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