Hungary  

Author(s)

• Erika Kolumbán, Semmelweis University András Pető Faculty

Abstract

In Hungary, the National Core Curriculum (NCC) is an educational framework that regulates the content of the Hungarian public education policies. The latest version has taken into account most of the recommendations made by the European Union. The priority and main focus of the NCC is the development of key competences such as: communicating in the mother language, and improving literacy skills and social emotional competencies (including, for instance, communicative, decision making, co-operative skills) as well. The NCC defines cross curricular themes like: mental health and communication culture, too.Considering this, the main goal of the curriculum is to develop educational practices that foster the above mentioned competences. At the local level, it is regulated by the local educational programmes of schools including local institutions curricula (Pedagógiai programme).In Hungary, there are currently no complex and large scale programmes for Social Emotional Learning (SEL, but there are some very interesting programmes (e.g., Magical Games, Happiness Lessons), tests and interventions (e.g., DIFER) which promote childrens’ social and emotional skills. The existing SEL programmes in early childhood education can be found in the local kindergarten curriculums especially linked with the different inclusion programmes for the children with special needs. The existing evidence based programmes are mostly linked to school changes and school years.Pre-primary education has recently received renewed attention from educational policy-makers, which is mainly the result of the key role it plays in the social integration of disadvantaged groups.

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