PT Journal AU Zacharova, J TI Development of Secondary Education in Slovakia in the Period of the First Czechoslovak Republic from the Staff's Perspective SO e-Pedagogium PY 2012 BP 111 EP 134 VL 12 IS 2 DI 10.5507/epd.2012.028 DE Czechoslovakia; Ministry of Education and National Enlightenment; school unification; school re-organization; network of secondary schools; Slovakization of schools; staff issue; Czech teachers AB 1918 became a breaking point in the history of Europe. New states were formed, Czechoslovakia was also among them. School education became a cultural base for this small state, however, after the long-term assimilating process of the former Hungarian Kingdom, there was a need to Slovakize the school education actively.This paper examines the area of the development of secondary education in Slovakia with respect to that time legislative changes, extended by a perspective regarding the solution of staff issues as far as the employment of pro-democratic and pro-national oriented teachers at Slovak secondary schools were concerned. Since there were not Slovak teachers in Slovakia at that time, the school administration was solving the given problem by employing teachers and professors from Bohemia and Moravia on the basis of the requirement of the Minister with Full Powers for the Administration of Slovakia, Vavro Srobar. ER