ARHIVSKI FONDOVI O BOSANSKOJ OSNOVNOŠKOLSKOJ DJECI U REPUBLICI SLOVENIJI U PERIODU 1992-2000. GODINI
ARCHIVAL FUNDS OF BOSNIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS IN THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA IN THE PERIOD 1992-2000.

Summary/Abstract: In school year 1992. in Republic of Slovenia 54 elementary schools worked with the special program for refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina. That program included 9.000 children of temporary refugees, and classeswere conducted by 450 teachers and refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina. These elementary schools operated in refugee centres or during afternoon in Slovenian elementary schools or other improvised rooms. They were supervised by Office for refugees of Republic of Slovenia. The Ministry of education and sports in accordance with recommendation by UNESC027, that classes during first year of residence should be preformed on primary language or else ae child will not gain knowledge, and it should gradually adapt to a language it is surrounded with, formed a special educational program for refugee's children. Beside the improvisation there were problems with teachers. Half of them did not have adequate pedagogical education. Before the war they were employed as economists, engineers, doctors, officials, and even students, high school students, volunteers. Number of schools, teachers and students gradually started dwindling, because people started coming back to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The material (diaries, birth certificates, letters, literature) stayed at various places. After three years work of elementary schools with Bosnian-Herzegovian programme it became obvious something had to be changed in education of refugee children. Therefore the Ministry of education and sport adopted a conclusion to include refugee children in Slovenian elementary schools. Main individual in the Ministry that contributed to development of refugee education in Slovenia was Majda Urank.

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