Issues connected to the education of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia.
Issues connected to the education of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia.

In the context of solving the Hungarian minority status in the Czechoslovak Republic during the years 1945–1947

Summary/Abstract: The paper is analyzing possibilities of education of children and youth of the Hungarian ethnicity in Slovakia after the end of the II World War. It is pointing to the fact that the approach of the Commission of Schools Sciences and Art was based on a general approach to solve the Hungarian issue in Czechoslovakia at the time when the Hungarian minority was deprived of basic minority rights and its members were stripped of Czechoslovak state citizenship. Among political subjects, which during these years participated on the Czechoslovak political scene, there was an agreement in attitude toward the Hungarian minority. Even though representatives of the Democratic Party and the Communist Party of Slovakia initially demanded that an edict of the Slovak National Council, dated from September 1944, in regard to education in the Hungarian language at elementary schools, should be implemented, gradually they abstained from this demand.

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