Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article analyzes the features of primary education (place in the structure of the education system, age and duration of education, main reforms, management and financing) in the Slovak republic. Purpose: to identify and analyze the features of primary education in Slovak republic. Methods: сontent analysis of scientific studies aimed at highlighting the features of primary education in the Slovak republic (place in the structure of the education system, age and duration of education, main reforms, management and financing). Attention is paid to the processes of primary education reform Slovak republic (Law on Education (School Act) and on Amendments to Certain Acts (2008), Statute of the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic (2024), Strategy for Roma equality, inclusion and participation until 2030 (2021)). Results & Conclusions: the peculiarities of obtaining primary education and its place in the structure of the education system, the terms of primary school education have been clarified. Attention is drawn to the legislative context of primary education reform processes. Management of educational institutions is carried out by "regional governments" - local bodies of state education management, which act as separate legal entities and manage education in the regions.The content of primary education is represented by the educational fields "Language and communication", "Man and nature", "Man and society", "Man and values", "Mathematics and knowledge work", "Man and the world of work", "Art and culture", "Health and movement", as well as the presence of transversal topics related to personal and social development, environmental education, media education, multicultural education, etc. Attention is drawn to Slovakia's experience in organizing the educational process for Roma children in primary schools, which actualizes it for use in primary schools in Transcarpathia. The Roma population has always been an integral part of the demographic diversity of Transcarpathia, but however, representatives of this particular national community are traditionally the least involved in educational processes.
Author: Oktaviia Fizeshi
Institution: Mukachevo State University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403798692