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Do pupils attend the nearest elementary school to their homes? Factors in school choice in the urban environment of Liberec, Czechia

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13440%2F18%3A43893762" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13440/18:43893762 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00216208:11310/18:10376756

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23361980.2018.7" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23361980.2018.7</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23361980.2018.7" target="_blank" >10.14712/23361980.2018.7</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Do pupils attend the nearest elementary school to their homes? Factors in school choice in the urban environment of Liberec, Czechia

  • Original language description

    Traditonally, the spatial organization of elementary education was based on the concept of school districts. Uneven regional development and population changes contributed to the destabilization of some regional education systems and led to the modifcation of catchment area boundaries. In the West, the neo-liberal policies of the 1980s led to the decentralization of school systems, allowed schools to focus on specific subjects, and gave parents the possibility to choose schools based on criteria other than school catchment area. The aim of this paper is to discuss the importance of factors influencing elementary school choice in an urban environment, using the Czech city of Liberec as an example. We will atempt to answer the following research questions: Do pupils from a given catchment area are enrolled at the elementary school closest to their place of residence? What factors influence school choice? How do school choice-related motives differ based on the socioeconomic characteristics of specific areas in an urban space? This study combines GIS spatial modeling methods with questionnaire surveys conducted in selected schools. The results demonstrate that in choosing schools parents base their decisions on many factors. School location is stll one of the most important, even though Czech pupils are no longer required to attend their district school. In our study, attendance of the closest elementary school is influenced by the school&apos;s macro-location within the city, that is, mainly by the location of each school in relation to the center and outlying areas of the city.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50702 - Urban studies (planning and development)

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2018

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Geographica

  • ISSN

    0300-5402

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    53

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    1

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    13

  • Pages from-to

    70-82

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85049156150