Az urbanizáció és az elemi oktatás fejlődése Pécsett Klebelsberg korában. A pécsi Gyárvárosi Iskola létrejötte és kiépülése

Abstract

In this study, the authors will attempt to highlight some details of the urbanisation of Pécs in the early 20th century by presenting the foundation of one elementary school (Gyárváros). Our study will provide essential details to understand the urbanisation of the industrial peripheries, wherever the mining colonies and some other industries created special conditions for urban development far away from the core/centre. The authors try to refine the picture of the famous school-building programme in the 1920’s, named after minister Kuno Klebelsberg. It is often labelled as a program for the rural peripheries, but it has substantial significance in rapidly urbanising industrial cities too, especially in their outskirts, wherever working-class families are concentrated. According to the social status and the lack of the inhabitants’ access to educational facilities, these urban peripheries are at least equally in need of coordinated development, mobilising national, local, public and private sources, like their rural counterparts.