Reform Pedagogy in Slovakia in the Interwar Period (Specifics and Selected Examples from Practice)

Reform Pedagogy in Slovakia in the Interwar Period (Specifics and Selected Examples from Practice) Our paper aims to point out a reform pedagogy in Slovakia in the interwar period (1918–1939). Based on the study of primary literary, archival sources and school sources, the aim of the paper is 1) to clarify foundations of reform pedagogy in a wider context of school policy and education in Slovakia after the establishment of Czechoslovakia, 2) to identify its key elements and specifics, 3) to document examples of selected reform schools based on archival sources, 4) to clarify the place of reform pedagogy in a wider pedagogical and socio-political development of the interwar Czechoslovakia