Abstract
To date, Kosovo has never been an independent nation; it has always been part of another empire or state, whether that be Byzantine, Serbian, Ottoman, or Yugoslavian, or again the Serbian state. However, until 1989, it did enjoy autonomy status within Yugoslavia. There was only ever an independent Kosovar education policy in an underground political sense or in exile in European countries that competed with the official dominating Yugoslavian or later Serbian education system until 1999. The antagonism between the Albanian majority and the Serbian minority that occasionally expressed itself in nationalistic conflicts has impacted the Kosovar education system to today.
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Dragidella, L. (2015). Kosovo. In: Hörner, W., Döbert, H., Reuter, L., von Kopp, B. (eds) The Education Systems of Europe. Global Education Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07473-3_25
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