Abstract
The paper is based on historiographical research of archival materials arising from activities of the International Red Cross, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Higher School of Social Care in Prague, the Štefánik Institute in Turčianský sv. Martin, the Masaryk State School of Health and Social Care and texts from contemporary periodicals that informed the general public about important activities in the field.
The historical probe is devoted to the education of social workers in the former Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1938. Specifically, it focuses on the contemporary discussion about whether the training of social workers should be implemented in two types of curricula, i.e. for social care and for health care separately, or in a single curriculum for social and health care.