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Download (2,92 MB)In any advanced society, the school education system is one of the most effective tools for shaping the young generation. Schools not only shape and enrich the educational base, but also shape the national and ideological identity of each member of society. Universities are an institution providing the highest level of education, they are centers of cognition, scientific and creative activity. They influence the state culture, economic growth of the country and its international presentation, at the same time they participate in the scientific, cultural, and social development of society. At present, the history of education, respectively education part of various disciplines, and interdisciplinary research, especially in the field of historical sciences, economics, philosophy, sociology, ethnography, etc. They follow the stimuli of the history of philosophy, history of knowledge, urban history, history of social theories, cultural history, or history of literature. We are therefore talking about special methods of examining the history of education, but we are referring to a comprehensive approach to the development of education and training. The history of education, which is traditionally a pedagogical discipline, is increasingly interdisciplinary. Since the topic analyzed by us, the formation of higher education in Slovakia after the Second World War (with a focus on Košice), is not exclusively a matter of education history, it is necessary to consider theoretical approaches and methods of other historical disciplines, and therefore in addition to education history, we will apply theoretical approaches from the field of history of knowledge and urban history. ...
