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The application of elements of traditional folk culture and „regional education“ is a hot topic already the third decade in the Slovak school system. Although the initial beginnings of this phenomenon occurred more than a hundred years ago (this period is named „hnutie svojrázu“), we can reflect intensive concrete steps and results of this process on a larger scale only after 1989. This has been done mainly in the context of the changed social-political situation, the effort to upgrade and to change the content or form of education, to change the school system. The situation allows the introduction of an alternative educational program in our school system after 1989. This paper focuses on clarifying the history and genesis of this area in our country, also outlines certain ethnological aspects and possibilities for further research on this topic. These are, first, the contribution to the history of ethnology, but also the aim of this paper is to find and show some other research perspectives, such a the impact of this specific form of education for the functioning of a such type of schools in the wider socio-cultural contexts of localities, the impact of this school to socio-cultural capital of students, the way of life of the individual sites.