ON THE USE OF TEACHING AIDS AT THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION PORTOROŽ–KOPER (1947–1968)

Abstract

In the past and still today, teaching aids have played an important role in providing future teachers with quality education. Their use in schools was affected by different historical contexts of education, school regulations as well as the development of industry, science, and didactics. After the Second World War, the use of a variety of media, such as tape recorder, radio, episcope, and slide projector, spread with electrification. As can be gathered from its well­-equipped cabinet, the Imperial-Royal College of Education for Men in Koper (1875–1909) devoted much atten­tion to teaching aids, especially in physics instruction. On its establishment after the Second World War, the college of education for southern Littoral, first opened in Portorož, also provided teaching aids, collections of teaching aids, and educational technology. In the absence of continued tradition, the college faced a lack of teaching aids. At the end of the 1950s, increasingly less teaching aids were bought as colleges of education converted into high schools of education sciences.