Dr. Kučerová from the Department of Geography co-edited the prestigious international book Handbook on Geographies of Education.
RNDr. Silvie R. Kučerová, Ph.D., from the Department of Geography, has joined a team of experts on spatiality in education and schooling as co-editor of a prestigious international book. The Handbook on Geographies of Education has just been published by Edward Elgar. According to reviewers and leading figures in the field, the work can be considered an overview of the latest findings in the field of geography of education.
“Over more than 450 pages, a diverse range of key experts on topics such as globalization and the marketization of education and social injustice, the relationships between the environment, the composition of students in schools, and parental choice of schools, the many dimensions of identity that are shaped in educational environments, alternative places of education and institutions operating in the so-called edu-industry, digital technologies as both an enabling and risky space for students, problems of school policy and the transformation of the school network in large cities and rural areas, population forecasting of student numbers, and many others,” says Dr. Kučerová, presenting the Handbook on Geographies of Education.
Silvie R. Kučerová is the author of a chapter comparing school attendance conditions in rural areas in Europe and the Middle East.
On February 25 at 10:30 a.m., you can learn more about the discipline of education geography and the content of the Handbook on Geographies of Education in an online event organized by Network 14 of the EERA scientific society.