Abstract
On the basis on LLS newspaper “Musu Nakotne” and Latvian Ministry of Education monthly “Izglitibas Ministrijas Menesraksts” in this research reflecting about international cooperation of the teachers – the activities of the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian teachers within the Teachers Association of the Baltic States. Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian teacher unions in the 20ties and 30ties of the 20th century formed Teachers Union of the Baltic States or the Association of Baltic States Teacher Unions, within which substantial organizational pedagogically – ideological exchange work was carried out thus helping teachers understand not only narrow educational issues of their own country but also discover their international context. Teachers’ Union of the Baltic States focused on mutual conferences and congresses – 11 conferences and 3 congresses took place.
Highlights
On the basis on LLS newspaper “Musu Nakotne” and Latvian Ministry of Education monthly “Izglitibas Ministrijas Menesraksts” in this research reflecting about international cooperation of the teachers – the activities of the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian teachers within the Teachers Association of the Baltic States
The initiator and organizer the previous year’s meeting Latvian Teachers Union had only invited only common teacher unions from neighbour states, but Estonians seeing that that both in Latvia and Estonia there are other teacher organizations that do not fall under common unions, extended invitations to Latvian Secondary School Teacher Union and Lithuanian Catholic Teachers Union” [9,963,] In the conference participates: Delegates from Estonian Union of Teachers and Tallinn Teachers Association (Valbe, Janson, Rummo, Annuson Kiivets and others) Latvian Teachers Union’s board members
On the eve of the 3rd Baltic Teacher Union’s congress, one of the representatives of the Latvian Teacher Union considers that BTU activities up to that point was mainly connected with organising and coordinating the teachers of the Baltic states and in the future attention must be devoted to educational issues [3], his assessment is an “inside assessment”
Summary
As a successful example of the cooperation the securing of a military union between Latvia and Estonian on the 1st of November of 1923 is mentioned. [10, p. 29.] despite the conflicts and absence of treaties Lithuanian Latvian and Estonian teachers implemented various forms of cooperation – educational congresses, conferences, tours, exchange visits, etc. The initiator and organizer the previous year’s meeting Latvian Teachers Union had only invited only common teacher unions from neighbour states, but Estonians seeing that that both in Latvia and Estonia there are other teacher organizations that do not fall under common unions, extended invitations to Latvian Secondary School Teacher Union and Lithuanian Catholic Teachers Union” [9,963,] In the conference participates: Delegates from Estonian Union of Teachers and Tallinn Teachers Association (Valbe, Janson, Rummo, Annuson Kiivets and others) Latvian Teachers Union’s board members The Baltic Teachers conferences took place in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania: 3rd conference: Kaunas – August 18th and 19th 1924 [2]; 4th conference: June 21st and 22nd – Riga 5th conference: June 29th and 30nd – Tallinn In this conference the issues of strategic importance to Baltic Teachers Union were discussed: Union’s programme for 1926–1927, budget, election of the secretariat and revision commission, preparation for union’s 2nd Congress. The present study shows that the Baltic teachers voluntary cooperation was sufficiently broad and massive, that it can be considered a significant phenomena to describe educational environment (discourse) of the said era
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