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• Schools on the Edge – Struggling with Multiple Disadvantages in Numbers

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  István Balcsók

  Tibor Szarvák

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  95

  This introductory study examines the situation of small rural schools in Hungary using statistical data from 1990 to 2022. The paper aimed to identify settlements where primary education has been permanently absent or operates in a limited “small school” format. Findings reveal that school closures and the transformation into small schools are concentrated in peripheral areas burdened by social, economic, and infrastructural disadvantages. Nearly half of Hungarian settlements lack a primary school, while the number of small schools has steadily declined, with significant fluctuations in their status. The study highlights that remote, service-deficient regions fail to attract highly qualified teachers despite salary increases, further deepening educational inequalities. Maintaining small schools is not merely an educational policy issue but a matter of social cohesion, as the disappearance of local institutions perpetuates disadvantages and increases the risk of segregation.

• Reconfiguration in Post Euromaidan symbolic landscape: comparison of Kyiv and Transcarpathia

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  Ágnes Erőss

  Katalin Kovály

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  427

  The relation between power and public space has been one of the main interest of geographical
  research in the last decades (Massey 1994, Mitchell 2003). Researches have illustrated that
  following a regime change, the symbolic space of the city – compiled of street names, statues
  and monuments – usually gets reconfigured. Following the Euromaidan, in 2015, the laws on
  decommunization were accepted in Ukraine, which disposed more comprehensibly than ever before the banishment of Communist symbols from the public space. The decommunization
  besides toponymy, entangled other elements of public space resulting in major shifts the urban
  landscape as well.
  Main interest of present paper is to study the major shifts in symbolic landscape in the capital,
  Kyiv and compare it to the processes that have taken place in the westernmost periphery of the
  country, Transcarpathia. Based on the examples of Uzhhorod, Berehove raion and Berehove, our
  further aim is to shed light on the role of locality and how local memory is represented in public
  space.