Youth classics in the Slovenian curriculum (1869-2024)

The paper deals with youth classics or authors and/or works proposed in the Slovene curriculum over time, from the first curriculum found to date (1869) to 2024. The paper presents a comparative analysis of the proposed authors and works from Slovene and world literature. For this purpose, 56 curricula (1,915 pages in total) were analysed chronologically in five periods: 1) Austria-Hungary 1848-1918, 2) Kingdom of the SHS 1918-1941, 3) the period during World War II, 1941-1945 (1944), 4) SFRY 1945-1991, and 5) independent Slovenia or Slovenia as an EU member: 1991-2024.