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Author Miskovic, Maja

Title Roma Education in Europe : Practices, policies and politics
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (222 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Roma education between theory, policy and politics; 1 Roma as Homines Educandi: a collective subject between educational provision, social control and humanism; 2 Educating against the cultural politics and complicities of containment; 3 Scapegoated in schools: Reading a collective Roma narrative; 4 The Roma people: problem or mirror for Western European societies? An exploration of educational possibilities
5 Beyond numbers: Education and policy in the Decade of Roma Inclusion (2005-2015)Part II Educational practices and experiences; 6 The schooling of Romani Americans: an overview; 7 Integration of Gypsy Roma children in schools: Trojan or pantomime horse?; 8 Roma, non-Roma and the modern working-class (familiar) stranger; 9 Special needs and alternative strategies: Roma/Gypsy education in Hungary; 10 The shades of incomplete: Roma educational policy in Bulgaria; Part III Roma and public curriculum; 11 Support for Roma in tertiary education and social cohesion
12 The linguistic richness of Roma in Serbia: Banat and its multilingual dimension13 Litigating exclusion, inclusion and separation: dilemmas of justice in Roma education reform; 14 Travelling activism and knowledge formation in the Romani social and civil movement; Index
Summary For the last three decades, the international response to the adverse conditions of Roma has been intensive, producing a plethora of educational policies, reforms, and strategies that have been developed and implemented. This edited volume gathers together prominent international scholars, advocates and activists, with the purpose of offering a comprehensive and integrated understanding of how historical, political, and cultural forces shape educational experiences and social policy for the Roma population in Europe. The book uses theoretical and empirical lenses to understand the fo
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Subject Romanies -- Education -- Europe
Romanies -- Education
Europe
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136280665
1136280669