Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the influences of the various changes on primary education provision in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). This would provide data giving 'a source of well-grounded, rich descriptions' and 'preserve chronological flow'. The prevailing ideologies reflected changes in BiH's ruling authorities and the importance of this to education, particularly the continuing suppression and re-emergence of nationalist ideology and the contribution of education in the development of national identity. The book illustrates the social and political contexts during periods of Bosnia and Herzegovina's history. The establishment of Republika Srpska, mainly Serbian territory, and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina territory being divided between Bosniaks and Croats. The book then examines the Austro-Hungarian governorship followed by the federal state in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It focuses at the republic in communist Yugoslavia.