PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Zacharová, Jarmila TI - Development of Secondary Education in Slovakia in the Period of the First Czechoslovak Republic from the Staff's Perspective DP - 2012 Apr 1 TA - e-Pedagogium PG - 111--134 VI - 12 IP - 2 AID - 10.5507/epd.2012.028 IS - 12137758 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 Šrobár.