Inspektoráty menšinových škol v meziválečném Československu

Abstract

Minority education after 1918 took a copletely different direction than it had before the establishment of Czechoslovakia. The new social reality, the new laws and the different approach to minority issues led to an equalization of minority (state national) schools with other schools, the removal of most of the obstacles to their establishment and, above all, the nationalization of the whole process of establishing and maintaining these schools. This also led to the need to put these schools under the state supervision. In terms of their pedagogical activities and the organization of teaching, inspectorates for Czech, German and Polish minority schools were established. The paper deals with the implementation of inspectors’ agendas, the performance of inspections, inspection districts and their transformations and the staffing of inspectorates in the interwar period.