Predškolská a elementárna pedagogika a jej medzinárodná akceptácia: Portrét jednej slovenskej slabosti
Preschool and Primary School Pedagogy and Its International Acceptance: Portrait of One Slovak Weakness

Summary/Abstract: Study evaluates how university departments of preschool and primary school education are involved in international publication activities. Data collected from 9 departments of teacher training colleges in Slovakia are analysed to summarise publications of 122 faculties from these departments registered in 4 academic databases − SCOPUS, Web of Science, ERIC and Proquest Central. Comparative analysis of total number of publications registered in all selected databases and in individual databases either is used to evaluate scientific activity of departments in time series. Results of analyses show significant gap between departments and profound lag of many of departments in these indicators of the quality of scientific activities. These analyses also show that only one university would meet criteria adjusted for accreditation of doctoral study program in this study area and three universities for accreditation of master study program. Moreover, study defends the stand-point that contemporary pressure on meeting scientometric indicators is beneficial for academic culture in this area and its denial as a representation of neoliberal terror will not stand on in our academic environment.

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