Early Literacy Education in Preschool Curriculum Reforms: The Case of Post-Communist Slovakia

This paper describes the development of preschool literacy education in Slovakia, beginning with the communist era, when the country was isolated from broader international academic discourse and early literacy research, then the period after the fall of the totalitarian regime up to the present day...
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Oľga Zápotočná [verfasserIn]

Zuzana Petrová [verfasserIn]

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E-Artikel

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Englisch

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2018

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beginning with the communist era

when the country was isolated from broader international academic discourse and early literacy research

then the period after the fall of the totalitarian regime up to the present day. It describes how the traditional approach to teaching literacy

relying on an obsolete model of reading and writing instruction taught at primary school

has resulted in preschools having limited capacity to develop children’s literacy. It also explains attempts to reform the preschool literacy curriculum after the fall of the totalitarian regime. The first of these followed Slovakia’s most comprehensive education reform act in 2008

but it underestimated the specific role of written language in children’s language and cognitive development and in subsequent academic performance. Consequently

the reforms merely reproduced the traditional approach to literacy development within the new format of a decentralized curriculum. The consequences of the 2008 education reform act

and the pressure exerted by the results of international student assessments

resulted in a strong initiative from the academic field to reform the preschool curriculum on an evidentiary basis. The authors of this paper describe how they developed the thinking behind the new preschool literacy curriculum. The paper looks at how this became part of Slovakia’s national preschool curriculum which was implemented in 2016

including the process in which the curriculum was reviewed by the institutions of the Ministry of Education and by professional organizations involved in early childhood education in Slovakia.

early literacy

curriculum reform

preschool teachers

early literacy development

Slovakia

Übergeordnetes Werk:

In: Global Education Review - Mercy College, 2013, 5(2018), 2, Seite 145-159

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volume:5 ; year:2018 ; number:2 ; pages:145-159

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DOAJ045712433

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