Aktywizacja edukacyjna i zawodowa mieszkańców a jakość życia w miastach peryferyjnych
Educational and professional activation of inhabitants and the quality of life in peripheral cities

Contributor(s): Adam Bartoszek (Editor), Urszula Swadźba (Editor)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Social Theory, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: human capital; social capital; small and medium-sized cities; activation factors; education; labor market; educational mobility; migrations; quality of life; adaptation strategies; cultural conditions of the local environment
Summary/Abstract: The book „Educational and professional activation of inhabitants and the quality of life in peripheral cities” edited by Adam Bartoszek and Urszula Swadźba constitutes a comprehensive, and statistically based discussion of the problems of the activation of the so-called human capital in peripheral cities of Silesian and Opole voivodship in question. The article opening the volume entitled „Human capital in a local environment” by Adam Bartoszek is a theoretical introduction to the assumptions of studies on the problems of making the human capital active at the level of local communities. The article by Bożena Pactwa entitled „Human resources and demographic processes on selected peripheral cities of Silesian and Opole voivodships” stands for a demographic analysis based on statistical data from the yeares 1995—2008. A detailed analysis by Rafał Muster entitled “Problems of the activation of the human capital on local job markets in the light of statistical analyses and opinions of those in charge of public services of employment…” deals with the issue of the activation of the human capital on local job markets of Lubliniec, Racibórz, Nysa and Prudnik. Urszula Swadźba, in her article „Educational activity as an expression of local strategies and an innovative nature of human resources in small and middle-sized cities” deals with the problem of an educational activity of people inhabiting the places in question. Another article by Adam Bartoszek entitled „Educational and professional mobility of inhabitants and the quality of life in peripheral cities” presents the results of a survey conducted in four intentionally selected peripheral cities in the Upper Silesia (Racibórz, Nysa, Lubliniec and Głogówek). The analysis was structured as a comparative diagnosis contrasting the opinions of the heads of households with the opinions of the leaders of local communities, constituting a cross-sectional representation of various communities of small and mieddle-sized cities. The article by Marek Dziewierski entitled „An identity of place and adaptation strategies of the inhabitants of small and middle-sized cities” is a summary of the stage of qualitative studies. It deals with the issue of the relationships and interdependences between a social identity of the inhabitants of peripheral cities and their life choices connected with education, work or a preferable place of living. In the final chapter of the book, Adam Bartoszek and Urszula Swadźba summarize the consequences of the mobility of human capital for the quality of life in the studied cities.

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