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SlovakiaSome facts about it
Slovakia'Slovensko' is the Slovak name of Slovakia, a small country in Central Europe
• Slovak Republic is a member of the European Union since May 2004,also a member of NATO, WTO, OECD, OSCE, and other international organizations.
• Population si over 5 milions• The largest city is its capital
- Bratislava
Location of Slovakia in EU
Flag and shield of Slovakia
History• Before the 5th century the territory
of modern-day Slovakia was settled by Celts
• The Slavic population settled in the territory of Slovakia in the 5th century
• In the early 10th century, the Magyars gradually occupied the territory of the present-day Slovakia
• In 1918, Slovakia joined the regions of Bohemia and neighbouring Moravia to form Czechoslovakia
• The end of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia in 1989, during the peaceful Velvet Revolution, was followed once again by the country's dissolution, this time into two successor states. Slovakia and the Czech Republic went their separate ways after January 1, 1993
Demographicsand politic
• The majority of the inhabitants of Slovakia are ethnically Slovak (86%). Hungarians are the largest ethnic minority (9.7%) and are concentrated in the southern regions of the country
• The official state language is Slovak, a member of the Slavic languages
• The majority of Slovak citizens (68.9 %) identify themselves with the Roman Catholicism
• Slovakia is a parliamentary democratic republic with a multi-party system
• The Slovak head of state is the president, elected by direct popular vote for a five-year term. Most executive power lies with the head of government, the prime minister.
Geography• The Slovak landscape is noted primarily for its mountainous
nature, with the Carpathian Mountains extending across most of the northern half of the country. Amongst them are the high peaks of the Tatra mountains,where the High Tatras are home to many scenic lakes and valleys as well as the highest point in Slovakia, the Gerlachovský štít at 2,655 metres. Major Slovak river is the Danube
• The Slovak climate is temperate, with relatively warm summers and cold, cloudy and humid winters
Tourism Because it is in Central Europe and has been inhabited for a relatively long time, Slovakia features interesting natural landscapes, mountains, deep caves, medieval castles and towns, folk architecture, spas and ski resorts
Trnava
This historical city (established in 9th century) is situated in the western
part of Slovakia; 110 km from Vienna. In Trnava live 70 000 inhabitants.
Culture
You could see our Gallery, the Theatre, or the Museum!
SportSport
You can play football, baseball, Ice or Inline hockey, do aikido in Trnava, if
you want...
Trnava university – Faculty of education
Was established by the Trnava Senate on 1 September 1992 as one of two faculties of the renewed Trnava University
The Faculty of Education professes the Christian and humanist traditions
The Faculty offers a complete education of primary school teachers in accredited courses of study; in the course of their
study, students will be able to acquire a well-balanced quantity of specialist knowledge, instruction in pedagogy and
psychology, and practical skillsThe Faculty has a lot of modern technical equipment,
laboratories, studios, classrooms with audiovisual technology, a qualified academic staff
The integration in Slovakia since the school year 1991/1992:
1. The integrated kindergarten in Nitra – in this case they educate
children with hearing handicap among intact kids; similar
kindergarten is also in Trenčín.
2. There is experimental kind of the integrated kindergarten In
Bratislava – education of children with speech impediment in
common kindergarten.
3. The kindergarten in Trnava is visited by children with normal
intellect but also by kids who are mentally disturbed.
4. Primary school in Nitra – among pupils of one common class is
one integrated child with physical handicap.
5) There is an inverted integration, where intact children are together
with hearing handicaped kids in special school, in kindegarten in
Bratislava, Hrdlickova street.
6) Integrated nursery school in Children centre.
7) Integrated nursery school in Nitra. In this case there are hearing
handicapped students educated in the normal nursery school.
8) Integrated nursery school for children with speech defects, Dlhe Diely,
Bratislava. They have 7 integrated classes for children with different
kinds of speech defects together with intact children.
Contribution of itegration for handicapped children:
• They have better ability of watching, imitation and communication
with intact children – better developing of friendly relationships
with them.
• It means that they use their own experiences.
• Cognitive contribution is realized from enhanced wariness to
increased motivation and learnig.
• If is the beginning of integration already in preschool age it is easier
to integrate hanicapped people to the future integrated
experiences in all their life.
Contribution of itegration for intact children
• They learn to understand hardship of their handicapped
contemporaries.
• They are able to better understanding of differencies among all
people.
• They acquire sensitivenessfor need of others.
• They find out that everybody is able to overcome difficulties and to
reach the success – it´s motivating for them.
• According to the study, we can say that intact children have more
possitive attitude to people who are different than they are.
Contribution for teachers:
• Teaching in integrated class helps teachers learn to respect
variousness of styles, individual and specific needs of learning of all
pupils.
• They better identify reasons of problems with learning in their
future experiences.
• While they have to make up new individual plans for each student
they are still in touch with new teaching methods
Intergration in Primary schools in Slovakia
The fourth part
Specially integrated classes in ordinary schools in 2006
Handicap
Number of schools / number of pupils
together Nursery schools
Primary schools
Special primary schools
Training schools
Secondary Grammar schools
Syndrome of autism
3/21 2/15 0/0 1/6 0/0 0/0
Mental handicap
194/4706 10/82 0/0 184/4624 0/0 0/0
Hearing defect
1/0 0/0 1/25 0/0 0/0 0/0
Sight defect
8/99 7/91 1/7 0/0 0/0 0/0
Speech defect
6/314 2/39 4/275 0/0 0/0 0/0
Physical defect
9/175 4/42 3/113 2/20 0/0 0/0
Behavioural handicap of growing
1/10 0/0 1/10 0/0 0/0 0/0
Learning handicap of growing
61/1666 0/0 61/1666 0/0 0/0 0/0
Individually integrated pupils with special needs
in ordinary schools in 2006
Kind of school
Number of individually integrated pupils with special needs
together Syndrome of autism
Mental handicap
Hearing defect
Sight defect
Speech defect
Physical defect
Growing handicaps
Nursery schools
618 28 153 33 43 142 146 73
Primary schools
13074 74 3631 271 195 696 920 7287
Secondary Grammar schools
132 0 0 11 21 0 22 78
Training schools
1642 0 0 86 42 0 183 856
• From the previous tables it is obvious that the number of
pupils who are individually integrated in the ordinary classes
is significantly higher than in the ordinary classes.
• The number of integrated students has fallen little over the
years
Primary school of A. Kubinu in Trnava
The school for blind pupils or pupils with the poor eye-sight
Conclusion
The most important tasks that we have found to be fulfilled as
soon as possible are:
• The end of the long lasted problems in school reformation
• To increase the number of specially qualified personnel
• To rise up cooperation between schools and other institution
(Educational and Psychological Advisory Service)
• To omit the gap in legislation
• To break up obstacles in public system information