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Multiple effects of education in rural areas: Action research for development strategies in Croatia

The strategy of development in rural areas of Croatia includes several factors. Among them one is education. The education system in Croatia has a number of institutional, infrastructural and regional characteristics that are a frame of research for this paper. Rural areas confront additional factors like population migrations, bad socio-professional structure, distances from cities etc., which have consequences on education quality. Lower quality of the education system in rural areas are of great concern in rural development as it give a base for a better professional structure, it can influence on diminished migrations (staying in the villages for education, not migrating to cities) and rise the quality of living through several open activities in schools as meeting points for children and the whole population. The objectives of this paper were 1) to present the findings of an analysis of basic education in rural areas of Croatia and, 2) recommends measures to improve access and quality of education for rural people in order to better contribute to rural development. Therefore, after a brief presentation of the context and justifications of this paper, the document presents for each of education level, the findings displayed as problems and, from these problems, proposes measures to ensure that education in rural areas is contributing to rural development.

croatia; rural areas; education; development strategies

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