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Teacher Education in Slovenia: Between the Past, the Present, and the Future

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This chapter on the Slovenian context offers a short history of intersecting and shifting socio-political circumstances, feeding into a structural overview of the contemporary national education and teacher education systems. In particular, it shows how the most recent reform in teacher education, the Bologna reform, has been conducted from the top-down, whereby the ‘top’ is no longer the state, as was the case in the past, but rather the standards developed centrally at the European Union level. This chapter analyses some of the specific tensions and challenges in the context of teacher education, as well as exploring possible directions for the future development of teacher education in Slovenia.

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Peček, M. (2023). Teacher Education in Slovenia: Between the Past, the Present, and the Future. In: Kowalczuk-Walędziak, M., Valeeva, R.A., Sablić, M., Menter, I. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09515-3_12

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