The Participation of Parents, School and the Social Surrounding in the Implementation of the Concept of Bilingual Education

Since the subject of our case study is bilingual education at the elementary school in Lendava (Slovenia, Yugoslavia), we feel it is necessary to at least briefly present the historical and social background of the ethnically mixed (Slovene-Hungarian) area where a new, politically progressive but pedagogically very ambitious concept – bilingual education – was introduced in 1959.

From the Introduction by Renata Mejak, Prof. Dr. Sonja Novak Lukanovič