Community Functions of Schools and Municipal Support of Schools on the Continuum of the Rural Periphery – Town

Kubeš Jan ()
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Kubeš Jan: University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czechia

European Countryside, 2024, vol. 16, issue 2, 269-285

Abstract: The article compares the community functions of schools and the support to schools from the municipality representatives and community depending on the location of the school – in peripheral or semi-peripheral rural areas, rural small towns, outer suburbs and also in towns, i.e., at various distances from the town. It is based on controlled interviews with school headmasters and mayors of the respective municipalities and on the collection of information from annual school reports and school inspection reports. A total of 57 schools of two districts in the south-west of Czechia were evaluated. The assumption that complete rural schools in peripheries have the greatest community functions was confirmed; but complete rural schools in semi-peripheries also received similar assessment. However, a fully functioning rural "community school" was not found in the case study area. Schools in towns show weak community functions, because community functions in towns are provided by other institutions and facilities.

Keywords: Rural community; rural periphery; rural semi-periphery; rural school; community school; community functions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.2478/euco-2024-0015

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