The Faculty of Teacher Education at the

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is a faculty which focusses on the education of teachers and preschool teachers. Apart from its central location in

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, it has facilities in

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and

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. The first teacher's school in Zagreb was the Higher Pedagogical School which offered a two-year program from 1919.Faculty of Teacher Education
In the

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the program was extended to four years, but was shorted to three after the

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. It became the Pedagogical Academy in 1960, and upon

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n independence the academy gradually evolved into the modern faculty. According to Croatia's ''Parliamentary Commission for Verification of War and Post-War Crimes'' the faculty's grounds in Zagreb were the site of a mass grave of approximately 300 prisoners killed by the

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in 1945, after the end of the Second World War. After a public education campaign in 2008 by concerned groups, Croatian authorities launched an investigation into the site.MUP and Attorney investigating events

References

External links

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{{Authority control Teachers colleges

Teacher Education Teacher education or teacher training refers to programs, policies, procedures, and provision designed to equip (prospective) teachers with the knowledge, attitude (psychology), attitudes, behaviors, approaches, methodologies and skills they requir ...