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Dear all, 3
“This young pedagogical institution has no business whatsoever to
pride itself on anything worthy of any special attention or of public
recognition. Crammed into five barely appropriate “offices” located at
Cankarjeva 5/III, its chronic lack of both staff and money hardly makes
it appealing to anyone... When the Institute became operational on
1 May 1965, it was composed of 2 educationists, 2 psychologists, a
Director with pedagogical education and a secretary. In three of the
rooms, we set out ancient furniture brought from who-knows-where.
Only the group from the Education Institute that transferred to our
Institute got the “dowry” of several classier pieces of furniture on
loan. The Court Administration, I believe, also gifted us an ancient
typewriter that seemed to have come out of nowhere. And such were
the unceremonial circumstances in which educational research work
began in Slovenia...” This is how Dr Iva Šegula, the first regular
Director of the Institute, remembers the concrete beginnings of the
Educational Research Institute.
The actual origins of the Educational Research Institute, however,
go back a decade more. In 1954, the PRS Council for Education and
Culture established an Education Study Committee in Ljubljana.
In 1956, the PRS Education Study Service was developed from said
Committee, in the framework of which a group for educational and
psychological research work was also formed. This group was
composed of three researchers and represented the brain child of the
Institute; on 1 May 1965, it was fully incorporated by the Institute.
The need for research work in the field of education was felt before
1956. In 1952 and 1953, the educational journals published several
discussions on scientific research in the field of education. In 1952,
Dr Vlado Schmidt wrote the following in the Journal of Contemporary
Educational Studies (Sodobna pedagogika):
“All research work would have been directed by the Educational
Research Institute. Working for this Institute should not have been an
ancillary activity of its members, but rather their main profession...
It is true that in Slovenia, nobody has ever considered educational
research as being their main profession... But the time has come to
make a step forward in the methodology related to the development
of educational science.”
Dear all, 3
“This young pedagogical institution has no business whatsoever to
pride itself on anything worthy of any special attention or of public
recognition. Crammed into five barely appropriate “offices” located at
Cankarjeva 5/III, its chronic lack of both staff and money hardly makes
it appealing to anyone... When the Institute became operational on
1 May 1965, it was composed of 2 educationists, 2 psychologists, a
Director with pedagogical education and a secretary. In three of the
rooms, we set out ancient furniture brought from who-knows-where.
Only the group from the Education Institute that transferred to our
Institute got the “dowry” of several classier pieces of furniture on
loan. The Court Administration, I believe, also gifted us an ancient
typewriter that seemed to have come out of nowhere. And such were
the unceremonial circumstances in which educational research work
began in Slovenia...” This is how Dr Iva Šegula, the first regular
Director of the Institute, remembers the concrete beginnings of the
Educational Research Institute.
The actual origins of the Educational Research Institute, however,
go back a decade more. In 1954, the PRS Council for Education and
Culture established an Education Study Committee in Ljubljana.
In 1956, the PRS Education Study Service was developed from said
Committee, in the framework of which a group for educational and
psychological research work was also formed. This group was
composed of three researchers and represented the brain child of the
Institute; on 1 May 1965, it was fully incorporated by the Institute.
The need for research work in the field of education was felt before
1956. In 1952 and 1953, the educational journals published several
discussions on scientific research in the field of education. In 1952,
Dr Vlado Schmidt wrote the following in the Journal of Contemporary
Educational Studies (Sodobna pedagogika):
“All research work would have been directed by the Educational
Research Institute. Working for this Institute should not have been an
ancillary activity of its members, but rather their main profession...
It is true that in Slovenia, nobody has ever considered educational
research as being their main profession... But the time has come to
make a step forward in the methodology related to the development
of educational science.”
