Novákné Plesovszki Zsuzsanna: Felekezetiség - Iskola - Interkulturalitás. A mezőberényi szlovák evangélikus népoktatás 1723-1890 között - A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 37. (Békéscsaba, 2012)
Confesionalism - School - Interculturalism
Novákné Plesovszki Zsuzsanna: Felekezetiség - Iskola - Interkulturalitás ers spokethe Slovakian dialect in Békés and the Hungarian dialect in their everyday social context. The knowuledge of the foreign langauge was a basic requirement for teachers to be employed. From the beginning of the 19th century also the knowledge of the Hungarian langauge was a condition of employment. The Magyarization of the schools may be located at this time and the process got stronger after the years 1836, 1842 and 1870. Besides the elementary education,the use of the Hungarian langauge at secondary grammar schools, offices, in the everyday connections between nationalities, and also colloqial Hungarian strenghtened. The process of the Hungarian langauge to become conspicuous. In addition,the number of mixted marriages increased whhere dey Hungarian langauge always became the mutual langauge of communication. In respect of elementery education it can be stated the use of langauge was determined by statue laws. In the literal sense we can speac about vernacular schools only until 1820. After this time there is only biligual education, in the course of wich also the mother tongue is used. Some subjects and groups of subjects are used to mould the consciousness of belonging to the majority nation, which affects so the langauge as the identity. Creating Slovakian culture was not characterized by takeover, handover, adaptation, which would indirectly have built int he historical process of education as spiritual background. However, the use of the Hungarian langauge elicited the discontinuance of a series of culture making elements. Degradation of school culture, cessation of social, folk, and religious customs elicited the development of such cultural elements, whose main cohesive attraction was the langauge. Through the collapse of unifying element a dual, bilingual, double cultural model developed at the beginning of the 19th century, which characterized the cultural region of the Slovaks in Békés uniformly. 302
