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Rescue, stabilization and development of small rural elementary schools in the Czechia and Europe.
KOUTOVÁ, Kateřina
Rural schools providing primary and lower secondary education have lost pupils in the last few decades. It has been mostly due to rural depopulation and natality. This applies to schools in the Czech Republic as well as in other European countries. The worst situation is in the rural peripheries, where many schools extincted. The issue of stabilization of rural education was mainly followed up by authors from northwestern Europe and the USA. The aim of the thesis is to create a set of measures to rescue, stabilize and develop small rural elementary schools in the Czech Republic. This is based on the evaluation of professional literature and on interviewing the representatives of selected elementary schools and the relevant municipalities in the case study area of the Prachatice and Český Krumlov districts. The examined primary schools are divided into eight types - complete in cities, complete in semi-peripheral small towns, complete in semi-peripheral villages, complete in peripheral small towns, complete in peripheral villages, incomplete in suburbia, incomplete in semi-peripheral villages and incomplete in peripheral villages. The evaluated literature is organized into five thematic groups, the responses of school headmasters and mayors into three blocks of indicators - basic indicators, community-functional indicators of primary schools and indicators of support of primary schools by municipalities and communities. The main resolution of the thesis is the above-mentioned set of measures.
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Stabilizace venkovských základních škol s malým počtem žáků (okresy Prachatice a Český Krumlov)
KOUTOVÁ, Kateřina
Rural primary schools often struggle with a small number of pupils, especially those located in peripheral areas. These schools often face the threat of reducing the number of classes and grades, or even with the threat of complete extinction. Another problem is that these schools are not considered by parents to be of sufficient quality, and that is the reason why they send their children to distant city schools. This bachelor's thesis aims to create a portfolio of topics for preservation, stabilization, and development of rural primary schools with a small number of pupils (including small schools with composite classes), based on an analysis of the literature and interviews with representatives of these schools. The survey finds information about pupils and teachers of primary schools, about the relationship between the primary school and municipality, in which is the primary school located, as well as about the relationship between the primary school and the community of the municipality, and many other problems. A key part of the bachelor's thesis is a set of topics for preservation, stabilization and development of the monitored type of primary schools.
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Sociálně-populační rozvinutost periferních, semiperiferních a střediskových sídel okresu Prachatice
ČERVÍK, Jakub
The bachelor thesis is focused on evaluation of socio-population development of settlement remote types in Prachatice district. Firstly, settlement centers with different hierarchies are defined (microregional towns, and lower settlement centers - very small towns, town-villages and central villages) on the basis of predetermined conditions and then they are graded according to types of monitored services, population, number of public transport connections and commuting to work and study. Prachatice and Vimperk became Microregional towns. As lower settlement centers were determined 2 very small towns (Volary, Netolice), 3 town-villages (Vlachovo Březí, Čkyně and Husinec) and 11 central villages. Peripheral settlements are determined on the basis of long time spent in connection with public transport (30 minutes or more) when traveling from a peripheral settlement to the nearest microregional town, possibly on the basis of too few public transport connections from the peripheral settlements to the microregional towns. Neighboring peripheral settlements create peripheral areas. Socio-population development is indicated by 8 indicators. Settlements with values in the last quartiles of indicator values are characterized by socio-population development problems. Microregional towns and suburban settlements around these towns have the highest socio-population development. Peripheral settlements and areas have the lowest level of values of the socio-population development, but there were differences between them due to their affiliation to the lower settlement centers and due to the active management of the municipalities of these peripheral settlements.
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Sociálně-populační rozvinutost periferních, semiperiferních a střediskových sídel okresu Klatovy
HOUDKOVÁ, Barbora
The bachelor thesis focuses on the evaluation of human, demographic and social capital of remote (peripheral) types of settlements of the Klatovsky District. First, settlement centres are defined and their hierarchy is established (micro-regional cities, very small towns, townshops, townvillages and larger villages) according to four indicators of centrality (population, number of types of selected services, number of commutes for work and to schools, and number of public transport links). Subsequently, the peripheral settlements of the micro-regional level are defined on the basis of the insufficient number of public transport links to micro-regional cities and too long time spent on the journey in these links. In the vicinity of microregional cities are defined suburbia/suburban settlements. The remaining settlements are semi-peripheral settlements. In the final, the human, demographic and social capital of individual remote types of settlements and peripheral areas of settlements is analysed. In addition to 3 microregional towns (Klatovy, Sušice, Horažďovice), one very small town (Nýrsko), 5 townships (Janovice nad Úhlavou, Švihov, Železná Ruda, etc.), 14 townvillages and 18 larger villages were defined. Quite large peripheral areas were found in the border with Bavaria. Microregional cities have favourable values of education, suburban settlements are characterized by favorable population development and by higher proportion of children, semi-peripheral settlements have a favorable age structure and significant activities of associations. Peripheral settlements had surprisingly favorable population development.
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Delimitation of peripheral areas in Czechia based on secondary data
Babický, František ; Marada, Miroslav (advisor) ; Novotná, Marie (referee)
This thesis deals with the problem of specifying of peripheral areas in dissertations at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development of the Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague. There have been many thesis concentrating on the identification of peripheral areas in particular territory in last twenty years. Authors of these dissertations created their own methodologies of this specifying. This work aims to further discover and examine ways the authors try to identify peripheral areas using secondary data and tries to find potential common features of this identification. The thesis applies different methods of identifying of peripheral areas from analyzed dissertations in the region of Rokycany district. The work describes similarities and differences of results. In the end the most appropriate method of identifying of peripheral areas is recommended.
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Periferní sídla, obce a oblasti okresu Znojmo - vymezení, typy a stabilita
HOLÍKOVÁ, Barbora
The bachelor thesis focuses on evaluating the level of development (stability) of municipalities and settlements of various positional types in the Znojmo district. At first, the settlement centres are determined in terms of their hierarchy (microregional, nano, pico and femto centres) and also the non-central municipalities according to the amount of kinds of observed services, the inhabitant count, the amount of public transport connections, and the commute to work or school. In the next step, the peripheral municipalities and settlements in the Znojmo district are determined, according to a small count of public transport travel connections heading to microregional settlement centres and/or due to a too long time spent in this transport connections. Next, the suburban municipalities and settlements are determined as well. The remaining municipalities and settlements (if they are not special microregional settlement centres) belong to the semiperipheral type. In the conclusion part, the socio-demographical and technical-infrastructural development (stability) of individual types of municipalities and settlements, and also of individual types of peripheral areas are then examined and explained. Overall, 2 microregional settlement centres were determined (Znojmo, Moravský Krumlov), 10 nano (for example Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou and Miroslav), 9 piko and 17 femto settlement centres. More extensive peripheral areas were determined in the area around Vranov and Jevišovice. The highest level of development was shown by municipalities of microregional residential centres and suburban municipalities around them, as well as semiperipheral municipalities, especially semi-peripheral nano and piko settlement centres. The worst level was seen by peripheral non-central municipalities and peripheral piko settlement centres.
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Periferní oblasti jižních Čech - vymezení, typy a stabilita
CHVOJKOVÁ, Aneta
The bachelor's thesis deals in particular with the delineation of peripheral municipalities and areas of South Bohemia and evaluation of their social-population development (stability). For the purposes of the thesis peripheral municipalities are municipalities distant from microregional settlement centres. They are delineated based on public transport connections as being too far from the microregional settlement centres in terms of time or not connected with these centres by a sufficient number of connections. Except for peripheral municipalities and municipalities of microregional settlement centres there are also suburban municipalities and semiperipheral municipalities delineated (the rest). Settlement centres are defined and structured into a hierarchy based on four characteristics: services for residents, population, number of commuters and number of public transport connections. Metropolitan (mesoregional), city (microregional), small-town (nano), township (piko) and rural (femto) settlement centres are delineated. Then the social-population development (stability) of all municipalities in the South Bohemian Region and their types are evaluated. There is 1 mesoregional, 17 microregional, 14 nano, 11 piko and 35 femto settlement centres delineated in the South Bohemian Region. Peripheral municipalities are grouped into 19 peripheral areas (7 frontier, 5 interregional and 7 intraregional). Semiperipheral piko centres, peripheral piko and nano centres have the worst results in terms of social and population development (stability); as for the peripheral areas, the worst results were in interregional peripheral areas (in particular the surroundings of Deštná and Mladá Vožice) and some frontier peripheral areas (Novohradsko and Vitorazsko area).
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Periferní oblasti Plzeňského kraje - vymezení, typy a stabilita
PODLEŠÁKOVÁ, Nikola
The Bachelor thesis determines peripheral areas of the Region of Plzeň, together with semi-peripheral and suburban areas in the above-mentioned region, and presents an evaluation of the social-population development of these areas. The theory of the thesis is based upon concepts of settlement centrality, peripherality in an area, social-population development of municipalities and geographically conditioned social exclusion. Municipalities constitute territorial units of the analyses. Peripherality is understood as a territorial remoteness from micro-regional settlement centres. Accordingly, the first step consisted in defining micro-regional settlement centres according to the community amenities of these centres, the number of population, commuting to work and schools and transport facilities. The most important settlement centre of the region is the town of Plzeň, followed by Klatovy, Rokycany, Domažlice, Sušice, Tachov, Přeštice, Stříbro, Horažďovice, Nýřany, Kralovice and Planá. Other settlement centres, with fewer community amenities available, were indicated as provincial (pico), township (nano) and rural (femto). In the subsequent step, peripheral municipalities were delineated on the basis of an excessively long time spent by travelling by a means of transport to the nearest micro-regional centre, and/or inadequate transport connections with the given centre. Clusters of peripheral municipalities give rise to peripheral areas - border, inter-regional and intra-regional areas. The social-population development (stability) of peripheral, suburban and semi-peripheral municipalities, peripheral areas as well as micro-regional and minor settlement centres were evaluated in the last step. The aforesaid development (stability) was assessed based on the long-term and short-term population development, natural and migration balance of inhabitants, representation of inhabitants' segments of children and seniors, representation of university students, level of entrepreneurship and level of apartment construction. From the perspective of social-population development (stability), the most serious problems were identified in inter-regional peripheral areas, especially those neighbouring the Central Bohemian Region.
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The Role of Mayors in the Development of Selected Peripheral Areas of the Košice Region
Német, Martin ; Chromý, Pavel (advisor) ; Mintálová, Tatiana (referee)
The master thesis focuses on the role of mayors in community development in selected peripheral micro-regions of Košice region. These micro-regions represent two types of peripheral areas which were defined by the differences in quality of social and human capital in the region. These types were identified by analysis of the literature. The main objective of this thesis was to assess whether there is a relationship between these types of peripherals and the quality of human and social capital of citizens, but especially of mayors in the specific peripheral micro-regions. This objective was fulfilled both by the analysis of available secondary sources of information and also by investigation in peripheral municipalities. This investigation was especially concerned on identifying the level of cooperation of mayors with other development actors and also their engagement to solve the main problems of municipalities. Keywords: social capital, human capital, peripheral areas, Košice region, regional development, cooperation, relationships and contacts, actors of regional development
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Delimitation of peripheral areas in Czechia based on secondary data
Babický, František ; Marada, Miroslav (advisor) ; Novotná, Marie (referee)
This thesis deals with the problem of specifying of peripheral areas in dissertations at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development of the Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague. There have been many thesis concentrating on the identification of peripheral areas in particular territory in last twenty years. Authors of these dissertations created their own methodologies of this specifying. This work aims to further discover and examine ways the authors try to identify peripheral areas using secondary data and tries to find potential common features of this identification. The thesis applies different methods of identifying of peripheral areas from analyzed dissertations in the region of Rokycany district. The work describes similarities and differences of results. In the end the most appropriate method of identifying of peripheral areas is recommended.
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