Katarína Vančíková

Biography

She has been working at the Department of Elementary and Pre-school Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education inMatej Bel University, Banská Bystrica since 2001. She has developed a career in the field of teacher´s preparation at pre-school and primary levels. In her teaching and lecturing she addresses the issues of sociology in education, multicultural education, and compensatory education for children from disadvantaged social environments. Her research and publishing activities focus on the issues of equal educational opportunities, and the concept of inclusive education.
She participated in carrying out the state order – to increase Roma community socialization through the educational system, to by implemented by social and missionary staff, as well as teacher's assistants. She coordinated the "IS EQUAL" project, which focused on improving access to education for vulnerable population groups. She was a member of the specialist team on the PRINED National Inclusive Education Project. She is the co-author of the Special Report on Roma Inclusion in Early Childhood Education and Care in the Slovak Republic RECI +, in which she analyzed current problems concerning access to educational services for the most endangered group of poor Roma children. In 2017-2020 she worked on the project Learning make sense of the non-governmental organization MESA 10 (Center for Economic and Social Analysis) as an analyst specializing in the field of permeability of education, the output of which was a comprehensive draft recommendation for improvement of education in Slovakia. She has participated in 11 research projects KEGA, VEGA and APVV. She is the coordinator of the international project ERASMUS + Introduction of Curricula for Pre-school Teacher Education in Pre-School Facilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is the chairwoman of the expert commission for pre-school and initial education of the National Institute for Education in Slovak Republic and of The Central Commission for Inclusive Education and Education in Special Schools. He is a member of several university bodies: Study-field Committees for PhD study in the field of Pre-primary and Primary Education; Scientific Board of FAculty of Education MBU, Commitee of Internal Quality System Committee for FoE MBU, Standing working group by the Commitee of Internal Quality System Committee for MBU - for teaching study programs.