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