Early childhood education and care in Europe: tackling social and cultural inequality: Slovenia

Turnšek, Nada (author), Batistič Zorec, Marcela (author)

Slovenia has a single structure of preschool education system providing comprehensive education and care (educare) for children aged one to six (more precisely, from the end of maternity leave to the child’s entering compulsory school). It is offered mostly by public preschool institutions (vrtci). Preschool education is a part of the whole system of education, thus enabling children to make a smooth transition from preschool to compulsory education. It falls within the competence of the Ministry of Education and Sport. The system is regulated by two key Acts: Organization and Financing of Education (Official Gazette of the Republic Slovenia no. 12/1996; Amendments: 101/1999; 64/2001; 108/2002; 34/2003; 79/2003; 65/2005; 129/2006; 101/2007; 36/2008) Act and Pre-school Institutions Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia no. 12/1996; Amendments: 44/2000; 78/2003; 72/2005; 25/2008). They determine conditions necessary for the establishment of preschool institutions and for their organisation and administration. Public preschool institutions and preschool institutions with concession are obliged to follow the principles and directions of the national Curriculum for Pre-school Institutions (1999).

• Language: Unknown
• Keywords: predšolska vzgoja
• Work type: Not categorized
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publisher: EACEA
• Year: 2009
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-68330
• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2015

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• Language: Unknown
• Keywords: pre-school education