How Rural Schools in Czechia Respond to Parental Preferences: Different Approaches to Students' Well-Being

Autor/inn/en	Svoboda, Zdenek; Dvorák, Dominik; Zilcher, Ladislav; Šmíd, Jan; Kucerová, Silvie R.
Titel	How Rural Schools in Czechia Respond to Parental Preferences: Different Approaches to Students' Well-Being
Quelle	In: Journal of Pedagogy, 13 (2022) 2, S.105-127 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1338-2144
DOI	10.2478/jped-2022-0010
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Rural Schools; School Choice; Quality of Life; Parent Attitudes; Preferences; Institutional Characteristics; Well Being; Geographic Location; Class Size; Elementary Secondary Education; Principals; Administrator Role; Student Experience; Czech Republic + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Lebensqualität; Elternverhalten; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Klassengröße; Principal; Schulleiter; Studienerfahrung; Tschechische Republik
Abstract	Czech parents place particular emphasis on ensuring the overall quality of life of their child when choosing a school. Our study shows how rural state schools understand this demand. A mixed approach was used in our research. In the first step, administrative data from all schools in municipalities with a population of up to 3,000 was used to shortlist 91 schools in demand by both catchment and non-catchment families. In the second step, socio-geographic data on type of municipality, online presentations, and other documents of the shortlisted schools were analysed. In the last step, case studies of 13 schools were prepared on the basis of parent surveys and interviews with stakeholders. We present case studies of three schools with different explicitly expressed approaches to satisfying parental preferences through a specific mix of care for well-being and valued characteristics of the rural environment. Our study adds to the existing literature on school choice and school leadership by describing specific developmental and/or marketing strategies of rural schools based on the real or perceived characteristics of the countryside. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01