ABSTRACT
During a seminar dealing with East-West cooperation organized at Loccum in March 1992, Mr Libor Paty, Deputy Minister of Education of Czechoslovakia, stated that the countries of Central and Eastern Europe face a paradoxical situation: they should change a car’s engine while travelling by that very car. Against the new Eastern European background, the educational problems are so numerous and urgent that even establishing a priority order represents a hard-to-take decision. The public opinion and various pressure groups ask for a rapid change of structures and institutions, curricula and textbooks, finances and administration, methods and means, teachers’ training and status. In one word, everything should be changed or almost everything. It was the curriculum that was mostly influenced by this educational policy. This is the reason why the first changes in the transition period have taken place at the level of curricula.
