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Teacher Education in Slovakia: Recent Joys and Challenges for the Future

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This chapter describes the trajectory of teacher education in Slovakia, capturing three decades of significant political, social, and cultural transformation. To chart and analyse the development of Slovak educational policy in relation to teacher education during this period, a two-part historical framework was applied. The first covers the 1990s, when the Soviet Union fell, and ends with the year 2004, when Slovakia joined the EU. The second describes the subsequent period of decisive changes brought to teacher education through the acceptance of the Bologna Process and the introduction of key legislation—including the acts that defined the roles, responsibilities, and status of teachers across all education sectors—as well as school and national curriculum reforms.

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Bačová, D., Gadušová, Z. (2023). Teacher Education in Slovakia: Recent Joys and Challenges for 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_5

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