Education Policy 1945–1946: The Experience of Montenegro

The paper analyses the education policy and the development of schools in Yugoslavia and Montenegro during the reconstruction period of 1945–1946. In this period, the state had to urgently solve a number of problems in society, with the improvement of educational conditions posing a special challenge. In Montenegro, this was especially difficult to organize, keeping in mind its socio-economic underdevelopment. The plan of the state and of the leadership of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia to rebuild the country economically, educationally and culturally also included fixing the situation in education. It was considered impossible to start the modernization of society and of the economy if these processes were not simultaneously implemented in education and schooling. Given the economic and financial conditions affecting Montenegrin society at that time, the achieved results in education take on greater importance when viewed against these realities.