The Revival Textbooks from the Old-fashioned Collection of the Centre Community "Nadejda-1869"

Abstract

The subject of the study was 45 textbooks, published from 1835 to 1875 were preserved in the old-fashioned collection of the centre community "Nadejda-1869". Their authors are 17 teachers who wrote, translated and published first Bulgarian textbooks in the XIX-th century. They are journalists writing the first newspapers and magazines. They lead the struggle for new Bulgarian education, church independence and political freedom. They reform the education and the place of the cell, they build the secular. They are innovators, they introduce the study of new school subjects and languages according to the needs of the time. The text presents first textbooks in Bulgarian language, readings and grammar, arithmetics, geometry and physics. They are textbooks on history, geography, textbooks of natural history. Were preserved textbooks of logic, textbooks of moral and textbooks and dictionaries in French and German, sacred Orthodox catechisms. The article presents the history and development of the curriculum in Bulgarian schools in the ХIX c. Keywords: Old-Fashioned Collection, Centre Community "Nadejda-1869", Teachers, Authors, First Bulgarian Textbooks in the XIX-th, New Bulgarian Secular Education, New School Subjects and Languages, First Textbooks in Bulgarian Language, Readings, Grammar, Arithmetics, Geometry and Physics, History Textbooks, Geography, Textbooks and Dictionaries in French and German