Social Pedagogy | Social Education

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Authors: Ladislav Macháček

The issue of long-term youth unemployment in the Slovak Republic is considered to be a problem that can be solved by adopting a new intergenerational social contract. Youth policy after 1993 allowed young people to respond adequately to the challenges of modernization of the three sectors in the new literacy: language, computer and civil. There has been no response from the state policy to the new civilization challenge, which is the result of long-term unemployment: Gaining the ability to work. The author justifies the need for the development of specific program transition (transition from school to work). It should start with projects encouraging parents to engage their children in domestic work and community service in the village, we could go on with a wide range of small jobs for pupils and students during secondary school education and could culminate in restoring experienced apprenticed mobility of graduates in the area of unified Europe.

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Authors: Peter Ondrejkovič

The issue of relations between the generations is one of the important factors of the dynamics of social development. Intergenerational relationships are affected by the characteristics of youth, the process of individualization, the loss of traditional certainties, "tribalism" and "nomadism", insecurity and violence. Permanently generating new tensions and insecurity, as well as fear and anxiety associated with finding new certainties, are often connected with escape from reality. The issues of globalization and ambivalence, including the opposites, are becoming the central living paradigm of the young generation. The ambivalence stems from the growth of the possibilities of social action, on one hand, and the incoming threats and risks arising from the need to manage and overcome the ever more complex and difficult life tasks, without any support in previous forms of socialization, on the other. Teachers, psychologists and social workers should be properly educated with fresh knowledge on the younger generation and the new situation that can be characterized as a megatrend.

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Authors: Silvia Dončevová

Empirical and comparative study brings knowledge of the author's own research, whose main objective was to identify, analyse and interpret the problem impact of gender inequalities and stereotypes in the creation and development of violence, particularly against children and adolescents, primarily in the educational environment of the family. Research has attempted to capture the intersection of gender studies and social pedagogy, two sciences, which, although from a different angle, devoted, inter alia, the problem of the origin and acceleration of violence against children and adolescents. Research design was grounded in theory, the research method was the semi-structured interview, conducted with eight respondents, children and young people aged 12 - 23 years. A quantitative methodology was used to strengthen the validity of the process of triangulation; content analysis of text documents (case studies from the archives crisis centre for victims of domestic violence).