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Fargas-Malet, Montserrat; Bagley, Carl – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
Small rural schools in many countries have historically been viewed as less desirable than their larger urban counterparts, being treated less favourably in the policy arena and facing a risk of closure or amalgamation. Within Europe, they have been the focus of a range of research studies and have been defined in different ways, based mostly on…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Geographic Isolation
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Chaplin, Hannah; Davidova, Sophia; Gorton, Matthew – Journal of Rural Studies, 2004
Survey evidence from three Central European Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) is analysed to identify the degree of non-agricultural farm diversification and the factors facilitating or impeding it in individual and corporate farms. The effect of diversification on rural job creation and household incomes is investigated. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Development, Rural Areas, Family Income