Primary School Challenges in the Rural Areas of Finland, France and Portugal

Ferreira, J.M. Carvalho

doi:10.3917/es.028.0109

Éducation Et Sociétés

2012

DOI: 10.3917/es.028.0109

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Primary School Challenges in the Rural Areas of Finland, France and Portugal

J.M. Carvalho Ferreira¹

Abstract: Résumé Comment la France, la Finlande et le Portugal définissent-ils et gèrent-ils le maillage des écoles primaires en milieu rural ? Quel degré d’autonomie chaque pays accorde-t-il aux autorités locales pour organiser l’école ? Ces questions ont amené l’auteur à une analyse des instructions officielles dont la comparaison révèle l’opposition entre la très forte décentralisation finlandaise et un système centralisé caractérisé au Portugal. La France apparaît dans une position médiane. L’article montre que les … Show more

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Are primary schools a development and stabilisation factor of rural municipalities? A study of the differences in their importance in the Czech suburban, intermediate and peripheral countryside

Kourilva¹,

Pělucha²

2020

Eastern European Countryside

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This paper assessed the importance of primary school development in relation to community life, availability of funding, and attractiveness of rural municipalities in the suburban, intermediate and peripheral countryside of the Czech Republic. The importance of primary schools was analysed based on empirical research of the mayors of small municipalities in regions at the NUTS 3 level, i.e. suburban countryside in a large metropolitan area (the Central Bohemia Region), intermediate – stabilised rural region with a low population density (the South Bohemia Region) and predominantly rural region, internal periphery (the Vysocina Region). The results are discussed in three main themes: (1) general importance of schools for municipal development, (2) factors for school maintenance/absence in the village, and (3) development problems of municipalities in particular types of rural regions. Generally, the study findings prove the above division depending on whether there is a school within the municipality, with disparities with different types of rural areas not significant. Representatives of rural municipalities with a school confirmed that that the school is an important element in terms of community life and the attractiveness of the municipality for current and future residents, whereas in municipalities without schools, the necessary institutional memory to assess the importance and potential of a school was missing. Therefore, schools are only perceived as a provider of education without the possibility to positively influence the life within the municipality. This approach to understanding primary schools in conjunction with trends in rural outmigration in distant rural municipalities enhances the vicious circle of socio-economic shrinkage.

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Are primary schools a development and stabilisation factor of rural municipalities? A study of the differences in their importance in the Czech suburban, intermediate and peripheral countryside

Kourilva¹,

Pělucha²

2020

Eastern European Countryside

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Review of Education Literature in the World

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Ahmad²,

Faisal

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

Kubeš

2024

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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.

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Primary School Challenges in the Rural Areas of Finland, France and Portugal

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Are primary schools a development and stabilisation factor of rural municipalities? A study of the differences in their importance in the Czech suburban, intermediate and peripheral countryside

Are primary schools a development and stabilisation factor of rural municipalities? A study of the differences in their importance in the Czech suburban, intermediate and peripheral countryside

Review of Education Literature in the World

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

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