Changing Structures and the Role of Education in the Development of the Educational System in Czechia
2019
Abstract
Czechia is an example of a country evincing contradictory tendencies in the development of its social system over the course of the 20th century, which particularly included a major transition from communist rule towards a democratic society. The authors of this chapter aim to explore ways in which spatial organization of the country's elementary education has been changing in connection with changes in socioeconomic and political conditions as well as pedagogical principals.
They will discuss developmental tendencies with respect to a Giddens' (1984) Theory of Structuration. They will also present spatial changes in the educational system cartographically by means of maps of elementary schools' distribution over different time horizons.