Changing Structures and the Role of Education in the Development of the Educational System in Czechia

Abstract

Czechia is an example of a country evincing contradictory tendencies in the development of its social system over the course of the twentieth 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 Giddens’ (The constitutiton of society: outline of the theory of structuration. Polity, Cambridge, 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.