Η εξελικτική πορεία του θεσμού της συνεκπαίδευσης των δύο φύλων στην Ελλάδα

Περίληψη

The issue of co-education and single-sex schools is not just a contemporary but also a historical debate in Greece. Education of girls up to the beginning of the 20th century was inferior in comparison of that of boys. In the state schools of boys the presence of girls appears to be very small or does not exist, and this is due to the negative standing of the State and society, in general, towards the education of girls. Only in the year 1929 it is allowed that boys and girls are co-educated in the Schools of Primary Education. Girls living in the great cities can follow the secondary school education in non mixed schools, while, for financial reasons, the co-education of boys and girls is allowed in High School of small cities, where there has not been a special school for girls. Because of the tremendous increase of the number of girls attending courses in the Secondary School education, after the World War II, the problem becomes more severe. In August 1979 a series of Ministerial Decisions regulates the matter of co-education in our country finally. The establishment of co-education had no strong reactions neither from the teachers nor the parents, in spite of the technicalities resulting from this, because this change was effected with the conformation of the Parents' Associations. Furthermore, the Greek society of 1979 was now ready, mature enough to accept such a change in the Secondary School Education.