MATURITNÍ ZKOUŠKA V ČESKOSLOVENSKÉM ODBORNÉM ŠKOLSTVÍ V LETECH 1948–1953

• Authors: Šimáně Michal

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Matura examination in Czechoslovak vocational education, 1948–1953

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The study focuses on a topic from the history of teaching methods in the field of secondary vocational education. Specifically, it focuses on the school-leaving exams conducted in vocational education in Czechoslovakia in the years 1948–1953. Its goal is to capture the form of the matura (school-leaving) exam in this period, its organization and course. At the same time, however, the text also focuses on the practice by which the communist regime in Czechoslovakia influenced the matura exams, including the reasons for this practice. The study is based on data obtained mainly through the content analysis of documents from the period. Specifically, a number of legislative standards, various laws, directives, decree, etc., especially in the field of education, and several contemporary periodicals focused on the issue of (vocational) education. The research carried out brings new results, which have not yet been published anywhere, on two levels. On the one hand, it provides an insight into the implementation of the matura examination in vocational education in the first years of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, when, for example, the so-called practical examination was introduced as part of the matura examination. On the other hand, it brings the knowledge that the communist government did not perceive the school-leaving exams only as a means of enabling pupils to have a final evaluation of their knowledge and skills acquired during their studies in one of the fields of vocational education, but also as a tool for strengthening economic or political goals, generally to consolidate their power, for example, by restricting the possibility of repeating the matura exam or by evaluating the pupil’s ideological attitudes towards the new state system and socialist ideas in general.

Keywords

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MATURA EXAM; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; SOCIALISM; CZECHOSLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 101 - 127

Contributors

author

Šimáně Michal

• Institut celoživotního vzdělávání, Mendelova univerzita v Brně, Zemědělská 1665/1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6526-9375

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2024.72.1.5