No school of hard knocks: education policies and ideologies of Slovak far-right parties

Abstract

ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to examine the unexplored intersection between the ideologies and education policies of the Slovak far-right party family. From a theoretical perspective, the article draws on the morphological approach to the study of ideology. By using this approach, the main goal of this article is to analyse, map, and compare education policies in the context of the ideologies of three successful yet ideologically distinct examples of far-right parties in Slovakia. The analysis aims to identify the education policies of Slovakia’s far-right parties and define their positions and roles both within and outside of their respective ideologies. On a more general level, by examining the Slovak case, the article addresses the question of whether, and if so, to what extent the far-right’s education policies are also far-rightist education policies.