The history of the Department

Since its very beginning the Faculty of Education has been running a number of study programmes for the future pre-primary and primary teachers. The faculty has trained a huge number of excellent professionals for the primary level of education.

At the beginning, the training for pre-primary and primary teachers was organized by the Department of Pedagogy. However, due to some changes and a transformation of the educational system a new department was established in 1995 called The Department of Pre-school and Elementary Pedagogy, which was renamed into the Department of Pre-primary and Primary Education in 2011. At that time, it was a part of the Institute of Pre-primary and Primary Education.

The Department was again renamed a couple years later and since 1^st December 2013, it is officially called the Department of Pre-primary and Primary Education.