Inclusive education in the Slovak Republic two decades after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia |
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| Authors: | Jozef Mi?kolci |
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| Institution: | The Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Education Building A35, Sydney 2006, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The fall of Communist regime in 1989 and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993 significantly affected the educational system of today's Slovakia. As a sovereign state, Slovakia has ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities obliging its signatories to practise ‘inclusive education’. This article explores the current educational policies of the Slovak Republic in light of this obligation. Using the official statistical data the article argues that the current state educational policies have not succeeded in meeting the objective of practising inclusive education, as the proportion of students educated in segregated special educational provisions has been consistently rising over the last decade. This article attempts to identify particular aspects of the current educational policies which might have contributed to this phenomenon. |
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| Keywords: | inclusive education policy special education needs segregation |
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