Kovachev, Joseph (Stip, 14. 1839 – Sofia, 31. ⅹ 1898) – Pedagogue and Enlightener, the modernizer of school and education in Macedonia in the second half of ⅹⅰⅹ c. He was educated on the spiritual seminary in Belgrade (1860-1863) and the spiritual academy in Kiev (1864- 1868). After returning to Stip (1869), he founded the first Pedagogical-Theological School in Macedonia, through which several generations of teachers in the spirit of modern pedagogical requirements were trained. Such an activity, a little later, will develop in Prilep (1874-1877). During the Russian-Turkish war (1877), he was forced to emigrate to Bulgaria where the newly opened High School in Sofia was appointed (1888) for a professor after several pedagogical objects (pedagogy, a history of pedagogy, pedagogical psychology). Kovachev is the author of the textbook “School Pedagogy” (1873) and the first primer made after the voice analytical-synthetic method. The first in Macedonian schools introduced and spread the sound (voice) method in the literal instruction, which significantly facilitated the process of initial reading and writing in children. Attention was also paid to the folk entity, that is, the education of adults. In his “school pedagogy” and the study “on the organization of public schools” emphasized the importance and role of gymnastics and children’s games. He is a prominent theoretician and practitioner in the educational activity, a systematizer of gymnastic exercises and the founder of the pedagogical-theoretical and practical bases of physical education. Part: School Pedagogic, Sof., 1873; CHANGING FOR CHANGING AND WRITKINE After the sound method, 1874; Bulgarian primer After the sound method for public schools, SOF, 1875. Lit.: A. Ilievski, Joseph Kovachev – a tireless pedagogical thinker and Dean, educational work, 1, Skopje, 2000, 11-21. K. Camb. – D. S. Antoinette Kovacevic Kovacevic, Antoinette (Skopje, 27. ⅲ 1933) – Actress. One of the founders of the Albanian drama in the theater of the nationalities in Skopje (1950-1990), where it is retired and in which (continuously) carried the current repertoire. Corus: Dunjisha (“Women”), Kosna, Mandade and Electra (in the eponymous works), Ortonina (“Myrinolina”), Marina (“Uncle Vanja”), Jocasta (“King Ouip”), etc. R. ST.
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Кириличен напис КОВАЧЕВ, Јосиф