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Education of immigrants in Sweden and Czechia
Vosejpková, Tereza ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Matějka, Ondřej (referee)
Sweden is known as immigration country for a few decades already, but the number of immigrants has rapidly grown during the last years making Sweden one of the European countries with the greatest share of immigrants on total population. In opposite, Czechia is far behind traditional immigrant countries with its number of newcomers, but after joining the European Union, the country has transformed from emigrant to transit and later even to immigrant state with the greatest number of newcomers among Central European states. With immigration, the issue of new minorities and their relation with the majority of society have appeared. The policy of education plays a crucial role in this issue because it has the potential to form society and affect all generations including immigrants. The aim of the thesis is to analyse possibilities of education if immigrants with the emphasis on integration in the education system and compare both countries thorough legislation, observation and interviews with representants of primary schools. The hypothesis that the Swedish approach to immigrant education is more developed than the Czech one was approved by greater possibilities of Swedish newcomers, especially in the education of mother tongue, obligation of Swedish language courses, and flexibility in integration...
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Delimitation of catchment areas for elementary schools in Czechia: case study of cities Děčín and Teplice
Houšková, Zuzana ; Netrdová, Pavlína (advisor) ; Šifta, Miroslav (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the problem of creating school catchment areas in Czechia. The aim is to present and discuss the topic of defining the school catchment areas from legal, geographical and sociological view. School catchment areas should guarantee acceptance to school near home for all children in Czechia. However in some cases they can lead to segregation of ethnical or social minorities. Cities Děčín and Teplice have been chosen as case studies. Four school decrees from past 20 years have been selected from each city and maps have been created based on these. In the decrees, possible errors were found likely caused by poor wording or inadvertently introduced by the officials. The work also includes online maps that have been created to simplify the detection of errors in city decrees. My research shows that school catchment areas are created in a similar ways in both cities, and the boundaries of catchment areas are predominantly the boundaries of urban areas, traffic communications, or natural barriers. Keywords: catchment area, elementary school, Czechia
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Flexibility and localization of work in Czechia, 1991-2011: Analysis of the spatial aspects
Svoboda, Peter ; Ouředníček, Martin (advisor) ; Szczyrba, Zdeněk (referee) ; Květoň, Viktor (referee)
Flexibility and localization of work in Czechia 1991-2011: analysis of the spatial aspects The working process, its arrangement and its consequences have been a crucial part of a development of society in space. Work as a significant factor forming the space gets into the interest of social geography, at least until the Industrial Revolution, which led to a spatial mismatch between a place of residence and a place of work. The process of social transformation, together with the macroeconomic changes affecting post-socialist countries and the mass development of mobile information and communication technologies in the post- revolutionary period, stimulated a significant change in the issues of job localization and the differentiation of forms of work that became less embedded in the sense of temporal, spatial and functional meanings. This transformation led to irregularity of spatial movements associated with commuting to work on the one hand and its delocalization, or disappearance from physical space, and moving to the virtual space on the other. Hence, commuting to work and the relationship between home and work place is one of the crucial topics of Albertov's social geography. However, insufficient attention in domestic literature has been paid to the issue of the unembedded types of work. The...
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Territorial Cohesion in the European Regional Policy Discourse - A General Framework and Czech Specificities
Nosek, Štěpán ; Blažek, Jiří (advisor) ; Rumpel, Petr (referee) ; Ježek, Jiří (referee)
This dissertation deals with the concept of territorial cohesion and place-based approaches that are understood as a tool to achieve territorial cohesion. Specific attention is paid to Territorial Impact Assessment, which is most frequently designed as a method for adjustment of place-based approaches in order to reflect specific needs of particular types of regions. The theoretical part discusses interpretations associated with territorial cohesion in academic literature. It also analyses arguments of proponents and opponents of place-based approaches as a tool for considering territorial specificities in sectoral policies. Further, the dissertation focuses on the evolution of the Territorial Impact Assessment at the European level and its position within other impact assessment tools. The main aim of the empirical part is, first, to identify ways in which EU member states interpret and fulfil the EU goal leading to territorial cohesion and, second, to define how EU member states use place-based approaches to achieve territorial cohesion. Specific attention is given to Czechia, its understanding of territorial cohesion, and its experience with the implementation of place-based approaches. Research shows that EU member states do not deal with territorial cohesion uniformly; instead, they project...
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Exploring structural changes of employment in rural Czechia: territorial approach
Čapkovičová, Andrea ; Jančák, Vít (advisor) ; Květoň, Viktor (referee) ; Konečný, Ondřej (referee)
The thesis searches for driving forces behind structural changes of rural employment in the example of Czechia subject to changing rural paradigm and the related question of rural economic viability represented by the employment performance. The research elaborates on the territorial approaches which categorises regions according to their degree of rurality. In addition, the detailed classification is made according to the change of non-agricultural employment in the period 2001-2011 in order to identify dynamic regions which showed performance above national average (leading) and those which lacked behind (lagging). The observations prompt the question why is the performance differentiated. Therefore, the regionally differentiated impact of processes such as deagriculturisation, deindustrialisation and tertiarisation in the period 2001-2011 is analysed by the use of analysis of components (namely shift-share analysis) and multivariate analysis (namely factor and cluster analysis). The thesis aims to provide answers in particular by giving a thorough analysis of how the changing rural paradigm (and regional theories in wider context) conceptualise the driving forces behind employment development in rural areas. The added value is in the analysis of interrelations and correlations of chosen...
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Socio-geographic determinants of risky substance use among Czech adolescents
Kážmér, Ladislav ; Dzúrová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Kulhánová, Ivana (referee) ; Králíková, Eva (referee)
The thesis aims at the specific issues of health-related behaviour among the contemporary Czech youth, with particular emphasis on a socio-geographical dimension of the phenomena. In particular, it aims at identification of selected demographic, social, and contextual factors underlying the inequalities in risky substance use among the Czech adolescent population in its complex multilevel perspective. By applying the advanced methodology of multilevel modelling, the author reveals an integral nature of these factors in space and time, and thus contributes to a deeper knowledge on the structures and processes determining the selected forms of risk behaviours. In addition to an integrative multilevel approach, the author derives recommendations for an effective planning and implementation of preventive measures in agenda of the Czech drug policy as well. Key words: adolescence; substance use; prevalence; socio-geographic inequalities; multilevel analysis; Czechia
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Delimitation of catchment areas for elementary schools in Czechia: case study of cities Děčín and Teplice
Houšková, Zuzana ; Netrdová, Pavlína (advisor) ; Šifta, Miroslav (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the problem of creating school catchment areas in Czechia. The aim is to present and discuss the strategies used by the municipalities for defining the school catchment areas on selected examples. Cities Děčín and Teplice have been chosen as case studies. Four school decrees have been selected from each city and maps have been created based on these. My research shows that school catchment areas are created in a similar ways in both cities, and the boundaries of catchment areas are predominantly the boundaries of urban areas, traffic communications, or natural barriers. In the decrees, possible errors were found likely caused by poor wording or inadvertently introduced by the officials. The work also includes maps that have been created to simplify the detection of errors in city decrees. In both Děčín and Teplice, one school has been selected with respect to the risk of segregation of children from the perspective of national minorities. Field survey has been made on 23.4 2019. The investigation has shown that at one of the selected schools, segregation is starting to happen. Currently, the proportion of national minorities is 30% in the higher classes, with minority ratios above 50% in the first and second classes. The results of the investigation have been also...
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Impact of economic development on fertility in Czechia after 2000
Benešová, Valentýna ; Šťastná, Anna (advisor) ; Kocourková, Jiřina (referee)
Impact of economic development on fertility in Czechia after 2000 Abstract The aim of this thesis is to explore the development of fertility in Czechia at the level of regions and districts and to compare it with the development of economy after 2000. The first part of the thesis summarizes the knowledge of fertility development and possible economic and other influences that affect it. Subsequently the development of unemployment and the development of fertility were analyzed, just like their relations in the Czech Republic between 2002-2017. The thesis is focused on the regional differentiation of the selected indicators. Most of the analysis was made at the level of the NUTS 3 of the Czechia. Hereby it can be confirmed that the economic development in the Czech Republic was very likely one of the important factors that also influenced the development of fertility. For a more detailed examination of patterns of reproductive behavior and unemployment a cluster analysis was made for territorial units at the level LAU 1. In this analysis the main indicators were included as well as their changes after 2008. This method managed to define several areas with identical fertility and unemployment characteristics. Key words: fertility, unemployment, economic development, Czechia, regional differentiation
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Prevalence of mental disorders in the Czech population: age and sex differences
Soldánová, Lucie ; Machů, Vendula (advisor) ; Lustigová, Michala (referee)
Prevalence of mental disorders in the Czech population: age and sex differences Abstract Mental illnesses and addictions to alcohol and drugs are quite huge problem in current society, which are not much discussed and not even solved, even though in Czechia the number of people with mental health problems is increasing. In 2017 in Czechia was made the CZEMS survey, which participated 3306 respondents, who were older than 18 years. Based on these results, there is almost 20 % people diagnosed with mental illness in Czechia. This bachelor thesis is orienting at four selected categories of mental illnesses and addictions, which are mood disorders, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug dependencies. Men have higher prevalence of addictions, mainly alcohol dependency and drug abuse, which are marihuana, cocaine, different narcotics and inhalants. On the contrary, women have rather more risk to be diagnosed with mental illnesses such as mood disorders and anxiety disorders. The analysis also focuses on exact selected illnesses and dependencies, which are depressions, agoraphobia, social phobia, marijuana addiction and tranquilizers dependency. The target of this bachelor thesis is to analyse and describe with the results of the CZEMS survey, how was prevalence of these mental illnesses and dependencies differenced...
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