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The fourth international conference dealing with history and eductaion aimed to provide a vivid picture of the conditions and facts of the development of teacher education in the countries of Central and Southeastern Europe from the beginning of modern teacher education, which was distinguished by its randomness or the absence of a system, to gradual introduction and implementation of a systematic reform of teacher education. Attention was paid to the period of the last third of the 18th century (mainly the period after 1774) till the end of the 19th century (mainly to the period up to the milestone of Austrian school system: the year 1869). Attention was devoted to reforms of teacher education of so called general or national schools. The conference attempted to answer questions whether the given reforms were introduced by the state in all areas and by its administration powers also implemented and checked, or what processes can be noticed in the given topic. It is obvious that within such a vast, politically and culturally diverse geographical area, we are confronted with very different schemes of teacher education implementation. In certain regions reforms are systematic and checked by the state (in the Habsburg Monarchy), in other regions we witness processes and activities the importance of which depends on enthusiasm and knowledge of individual leading personalities and reform organizers. This personal enthusiasm determined reform steps in the area of teacher education and the weakening of their position also weakened the strength and importance of their reform suggestions.