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FOR GOD AND FOR NATION! THE IDEOLOGISATION OF SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION UNDER THE CHANGING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE IN SLOVAKIA

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2022

Abstract

The present study analyses education policy in Slovakia and determines the role of the church in education governance and the church-state relationship in education policy. The church-state relationship is also evident in the specific constellations of the national curriculum.

The study highlights the de-secularisation trend in education policy and curricula and identifies the links between religious and nationalist education content, which are largely a relic of the historical (and controversial) era of Slovak statehood building. It also analyses Ethical Education, which is a specific (and internationally unique) school subject in Slovakia that has been shaped by a particular church-state 'ideological governing form'.