Prof. dr. Nusret Drešković

 

NAUČNOISTRAŽIVAČKI RAZVOJ SAVREMENE GEOGRAFSKE

NAUKE U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI SA FOKUSOM NA SARAJEVSKU

GEOGRAFSKU Å KOLU

 

DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2020.5.21

UDC: 911.9:37.046(497.6Sarajevo)

Abstract: Contemporary geographical research in Bosnia and Herzegovina can be traced through two basic development periods. The first period includes geographical research carried out up to the middle of the 20th century, which was based on different interests of great imperialist powers of that time, or from the aspect of general geographical studies carried out through various scientific research expeditions to complete spatial information for maps of the World and the European continent. The second period of contemporary geographical research begins after the end of the Second World War, when Bosnia and Herzegovina achieves its territorial and legal continuity within the joint federation of South Slavs nations. This period in the development of contemporary geographical science in Bosnia and Herzegovina is characterized by two institutional forms of organization of geographical research.

The first of them is the research of the Bosnian Herzegovinian area conducted by Bosnian-Herzegovinian geographers organized within the Geographical Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Another institutional aspect in the development of contemporary geography in Bosnia and Herzegovina is related to the initial establishment of the Faculty of Philosophy and later the Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo, where the study of geography was organized for the education of primary and secondary school teachers and experts for the purpose of studying resource and spatial basis of Bosnia and Herzegovina and other republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In the period after independence, study programs in geography with different study directions were also created at other newly established public higher education institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Key words: contemporary geographical research, development periods, institutional organization, Geographical Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo, teacher education, development of an applied geography

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