In memoriam
In Memory of a Scientist, Teacher, Film Lover and Good Man, Stjepko Težak
(Požun, near Ozalj, 22 July 1926 — Zagreb, 1 August 2006)
An obituary of the
famous Croatian linguist and film pedagogue, Stjepko Težak
(PhD). Although more famous as a dialectologist and co-author
of the official Croatian grammar, Težak is also most distinguished
Croatian methodologist and film pedagogue. The project
to introduce media culture classes (film and later television
and comics) to primary and secondary schools in Croatia
within the lesson of maternal language and literature is
a pioneer project on a world level and it was executed
at his initiative in the 1960s. Considering the film, the
earliest initiative towards media education of children
is the book Film in the Lesson of Croatian-Serbian Language, 1967 (Film
u nastavi hrvatskosrpskog jezika) that after a series
of issues culminated with the comprehensive Methodology
of Film Teaching, 2000 (Metodika nastave filma). Krešimir Mikić |