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Education and cultural policy

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 153-0474/01
Abbreviation VKP
Course title Education and cultural policy
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Public Economics
Course coordinator Ing. Bc. Jiří Bečica, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Outline of the subject (main topics after each week/):
1. Historical background of education and culture. Development and current status. Measurable and unmeasurable benefits of culture, education and education. Generally applied governance and funding models; The goods provided.
2. Strategy of the Czech Republic in the field of education and culture. Applied educational and cultural policy of the Czech Republic. SWOT analysis of the sector in Czech conditions. National and transnational indicators and statistical outputs.
3. Education system of the Czech Republic. Preprimary Education (Administration, founders and legal forms of operation, forms and methods of financing).
4. Primary and lower secondary education (administration, founders and legal forms of operation, forms and methods of financing).
5. Higher secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education (administration, founders and legal forms of operation, forms and methods of financing).
6-7. Tertiary education (administration, founders and legal forms of operation, forms and methods of financing).
8. Culture and approaches to its conception in the conditions of the Czech Republic. Cultural processes and institutions, activities and products in culture. Financial collateral, efficiency, self-sufficiency and allocation of cultural funds by Focus, founder and legal form. Direct and indirect support of culture, own and foreign resources in culture.
9. Historical preservation in the Czech Republic. Administration, protection, financing and statistical indicators within the cultural Monuments of the Czech Republic. Organisational and institutional framework. Regional and national culture.
10. Libraries, museums and galleries. Definition of activities, legal forms and founders. Management, financing, statistical indicators and management of libraries, museums and galleries in the Czech Republic.
11. Theatres and art files, observatories and planetariums, zoos. Definition of activities, legal forms and founders. Administration, financing, statistical indicators and management of theatres and artistic sets, observatory and Planetariums, zoos in the Czech Republic.
12. Mass media and media. Organisational and institutional framework. Financing of television and broadcasting. Periodical and non-periodical printing. State funds in culture.
13. Churches and religious societies. characteristics, organs and economic security of churches and religious societies. Founding, creation, cancellation, extinction.
14. Aspects and priorities of education and cultural policies in Europe. Cultural heritage and care. UNESCO and its role in the field of culture and education. EU programmes in the fields of education, culture and audiovisual. Educational and cultural agreements, foreign relations of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic and Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

E-learning

Literature

BREWER, Dominic J., Patric J. McEWAN (eds.). Economic of Education. Elsevier, 2010. ISBN 978-0-08-096530-7 .
HELLMANZIK, Christiane. Cultural Economics. Newcastle: Agenda Publishing, 2020. ISBN 978-1-78821-162-8 .

Advised literature

THROSBY, David C. The Economics of Cultural Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-68784-3.