Magyar tannyelvű kisiskolák Dél-Szlovákiában
Hungarian small schools in southern Slovakia

Statistical and methodological approaches

Summary/Abstract: All Hungarian educational establishments in Southern Slovakia are struggling with competition, which is primarily the exhausting effect of the Slovak institutional system. While looking for a solution to competition, it is now clear that the strengthening of Hungarian schools can only be promoted by improving the quality of their education. Due to the new educational methods, the improvement of teaching and learning conditions and the technological equipment of schools, Hungarian institutions can now better compete with Slovak schools. The objective of this study is to examine the situation of the Hungarian small primary schools. The first part of the study characterizes the types of small schools and the trends in small schools in Southern Slovakia with charts. The last part introduces a good example for a small school in Karva (Kravany nad Dunajom), a village on the bank of the Danube. In Slovakian villages with Hungarian population small schools are the “last bastions” of local Hungarian cultural life. It seems important to expand the cooperation of small schools with the central school of this Southern Slovakian rural region and to deepen the quality indicators of personalized education in them.

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