The two models of bilingual/multilingual education that developed in Prekmurje (minority language: Hungarian) and Slovene Istria (minority language: Italian) after 1950 are the result of international agreements, educational and language policies, and social and demographic factors. The main goal of the two models is to ensure in the respective geographical areas the equality of minority communities, languages and cultures. The article presents the historical and social background of development of two different educational models and describes the implementation of language and educational policies in two ethnically mixed areas. Empirical data are used to compare the effectiveness of the one or the other bilingual model in achieving the set goals in the respective ethnically mixed areas. The article presents the results of the study on the attitudes/ perceptions of parents and children in relation to bilingualism and bilingual education, which are important indicators of how individuals and the local environment accept bilingualism and bilingual education. The research results reported in the paper can be useful in planning language and educational policies in Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 12570957
The monograph "From Concealment to a Point on the Map: social and spatial development of selected Roma settlements in Slovenia" schematically presents the current and historical demographic and settlement structure of the Roma in Slovenia in order to better understand the development of the so called Roma settlements. Its findings rest firstly on the author’s field work in 14 chosen Roma Settlements in all regions of their traditional presence in Slovenia. The results of the research work indicate on even greater variety and dynamics of the Roma in this sphere as it has been known until now. Simultaneously, the book brings a unique insight on different aspects of everyday life, cultural specifics, education and development of mutually very different Roma settlements from a perspective of their own inhabitants.
COBISS.SI-ID: 268408832
This article deals with the question of importance of maintaining immigrant languages and focuses on the opportunities for immigrants in Slovenia to learn their mother tongues in school. It presents the legal and formal framework determining the scope for the development of immigrant languages within the educational system in Slovenia. It also touches upon the implementation of legal and formal provisions in practice and the attitudes of immigrants and their descendants as well as teachers toward the learning and use of immigrant languages in education. Research has shown that the desire among immigrants for the preservation of their mother tongues exists, but due to various objective and subjective reasons not much has been done so far to achieve this goal. We argue that the maintenance of immigrant languages is important and that a reconsideration of educational policy in this regard would be in place.
COBISS.SI-ID: 12566349
There are three constitutionally recognised national/ethnic minorities in Slovenia: the Italians, the Hungarians and the Roma. In addition, there are other ethnic groups that could perhaps be considered as “autochthonous” national minorities in line with Slovenia’s understanding of this concept. Among them is a small community of “Serbs” – the successors of the Uskoks living in Bela krajina, a border region of Slovenia. In this article we present results of a field research that focused on the following question: Can the “Serb” community in Bela krajina be considered a national minority? On the basis of objective facts we could say that the “Serbs” in four Bela krajina villages are a potential national minority, but with regard to their modest social vitality and the fact that they do not express their desire for a minority status, the realization of special minority protection is rather questionable.
COBISS.SI-ID: 12626765
Award of the Slovenian Research Agency: outstanding scientific achievement 2012 – social sciences – field – national question The monograph reflecting the influential essay of Milan Kindera “Tragedy of Central Europe” (1984) is considered one of key theoretical and philosophical publications on the concept of Central Europe in the context of the European integrations and “New Europe.” In addition to the author’s chapter, Zygmunt Bauman, G. Schöpflin, L. Donskis, S. Auer, R. Rizman, S. Bianchini, I. Dabašinskiene, A. Balcytiene, J. D. Mininger, K. Czyzewski, S. Abrahám and R. Raud contributed their chapters. Žagar's text, written as conceptual theoretical treatise discusses collective identities, particularly European and Central European identities. Considering Kundera’s concept of Central Europe and discussions of other authors, it builds on personal experiences and understanding of the region, paying special attention to literature and arts, political and philosophic literature that played an important role in the conceptualization and interpretation of Central Europe.
COBISS.SI-ID: 12280141
The appraisal of the reasons and consequences of the entry of Italy into the World War One was already dealt with from the historiographic point of view and the conclusions are more or less clear today. The views, analyses and interpretations in the past and partly also today depend on the origin of the "research approach". While in Vienna there was talk of treason, Rome talked about "national interests". Serious historians nowadays no longer use the word treason when discussing Italy's decisions in the years 1914-1915. Austrian and German historiography mentions the unfair Italian foreign policy, and both, so Italian as the Austrian and German researchers are convinced about the political hazard of the Italian state. It is interesting to follow the diplomatic activity, "obedience" and negotiations between Rome and Vienna from December 1914 to April and May 1915 as they disclose the whole "high" politics in the time of emergency state, i. e. wars and negotiations between them. In such times law and justice are in the background, with interests, power and alliances being in the focus. All this and no less is refl ected in the events taking place in these turbulent times between Austro-Hungary and Italy. It is necessary to add that regarding World War One Slovene historiography was mostly focused on the Slovene nation and its destiny, observing history through the national spectacles. That is why there is no Slovene historiographic literature on this topic. The present article is therefore a small stone in the mosaic of understanding the diversity of interests and events in the end of 1914 and beginning of 1915 until Italy‘s entry into war.
COBISS.SI-ID: 13569101
The study of post-war deportations to labour camps in Hortobágy (1950-1953) began only after the change of political system in Hungary. The attention of Hungarian researchers focused on social and political background of deportations, their course and labour camps life, and less so after dismissal from the camps. The text gives a detailed description of hitherto unknown facts on life of Porabje deportees after dismissal from forced labour camps in Hortobágy in 1953 until deportees’ return home at the end of 1956 and beginning of 1957, and of hard beginnings of new life and consequences that left a permanent mark on the Slovene community in Hungary, which is reflected in personal and historical memories of the entire region. In presenting the new life of the deported families and consequences of deportations we draw on the testimonies of the deportees and on archival documents in Hungarian archives. The new findings fill the gaps in the yet unresearched (so ethnologically as historically) and decades unspoken of history of the Porabje Slovenes.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1935494
Interdisciplinary paper with multidisciplinary authorship (geography of population, geodesy, anthropology) brings a completely new view of the role of population migrations, mobility, movements and migrations in regard to geomorphological factors in the space, where they unfold. Through innovative hybrid method, derived from demographic and statistical instrumentarium and analytical apparatus of remote perception we we created an innovative three-sided analytically-synthetic model, thereby proving for the first time the relatedness of recent migration and demographic movements with direct changes of physical landscape in areas of dense population. We thus pointed out the key importance of synthetic understanding of science; as an interdisciplinary institute we are working on inter-subject and inter-field analytical and synthetical indicators. In the publication we followed the guidelines of open access, based on Creative Commons methodology.
COBISS.SI-ID: 43651117
Eclectic approach to selection of theoretical and methodological starting points made it possible for the present interdisciplinary paper to offer a more diverse view of the dialectics between the social and the individual within sociolinguistic research in multilingual territories. Interdisciplinary synthesis of speech actions (concretely: language choice) of bi- or multilingual youth living in ethnically mixed region shows that choice of language is not only affected by social setting and socialization, but also by individual distinctions. These are not only expressed through different habitus and different capital (Bourdieu's theory of practice), but also through individual distinctions in speakers' personal characteristics (The big five personal traits). The work therefore offers a new insight into formation and expression of linguistic, ethnic and national identities of individuals in multilingual settings. Its synthetically critical apparatus is also suitable for application to other language-contact areas.
COBISS.SI-ID: 13784909
In the bilingual, Slovene-Hungarian book titled »Hova megyünk, bajtársak? - Világnak! Szlovénia és az '56-os magyar menekültek –Where to, friends? To the world! Slovene and Hungarian refugees in 1956 and 1957 there are five studies, presenting Hungarian Refugees question in 1956 and 1957 and events taking place in Slovenia. Based on archives, literature, interviews and newspaper articles studies present Yugoslav and Slovene, respectively, refugee policy in the time when 20.000 Hungarian refugees fled to Yugoslavia. 2361 of these sought shelter in ten Slovene refugee camps. For most of them Slovenia (Yugoslavia) only served as a springboard to the West.Especially interesting are photos of Slovene refugee camps and admission centers, so from 1950s as from 2016.
COBISS.SI-ID: 287926784