IDEOLOGISING OF YOUTH IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN THE CASE OF TITO'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR YOUNG WORKERS AND WORKERS' CHILDREN IN THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, 1974-1986

Ideologising of young people was being implemented from an early age in multiple ways and by different means, through the press, education, youth organizations' activities and the like. One of the instruments of the educational policy, which served in ideologising of youth, were also scholarships. Scholarships, as a special form of achieving scholarship recipient's goals, were being directed through accurately determined criteria for awarding scholarships. Thus, they were under the control of those who were in charge of awarding scholarships. Although in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as its constituent unit, there existed a large number of organizations and funds which awarded scholarships, Tito's scholarship fund for young workers and workers' children particularly stood out by its characteristics and organisation. Its ideological and political function had been demonstrated in several ways, from monitoring the moral and political suitability of scholarship candidates and their parents to encouraging socio-political activities of scholarship recipients through various actions, organizing brigades of Tito's fund for participation in youth labour actions and the like. Tito's scholarship fund sought to influence the formation of young and successful generations of people, or to exercise the basic education policy with the aim of creating self-governing socialist persona.