| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 241 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Routledge research in education ; 24 |
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Routledge research in education ; 24.
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| Contents |
Editorial introduction: three dimensions of changing schools / Máirín Kenny and Patrick Alan Danaher -- Moving lives: a reflective account of a three generation travelling attractionist family in Italy / Francesca Gobbo -- Inclusive education for children and young people with interrupted learning in Scotland / Pauline Padfield and Gillian Cameron -- Itinerant farm workers' children in Australia: learning from the experiences of one family / Robyn Henderson -- Cultural difference or subversion among gypsy traveller youngsters in schools in England: a question of perspective / Martin Levinson -- Promoting educational access for the indigenous reindeer herders, fisherpeople, and hunters in the Nomadic schools of Yakutia, Russian Federation / Vassily A. Robbek [and others] -- Australian Romani / Wendy Morrow -- The telesis of Nigerian nomadic education / Abdurrahman Umar and Gidado Tahir -- Irish travellers, identity, and the education system / Máirín Kenny and Alice Binchy -- The revitalisation of a threatened indigenous language: the case of the Sami people in Norway / Kamil Özerk -- Paradoxes in policy: mixed messages for fairground and gypsy traveller families in England / Cathy Kiddle -- Australian circus people / Beverley Moriarty -- Against the odds: Roma population schooling in Spain / Manuel Souto Otero -- Schooling and the Rabaris of Kachchh in India: the need for change / Caroline Dyer -- Inclusion versus specialisation: issues in transforming the education of Australian show children / Geoff Danaher and Patrick Alan Danaher -- Conclusion: whither changing schools? / Judith Remy Leder |
| Summary |
This edited collection explores the challenges and innovations in providing education for mobile communities across the world. While obstacles such as negative stereotypes and centuries-old prejudice remain problematic, the book also shows how educational innovations such as online education and mobile schools are bringing mobility and schooling together |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children of migrant laborers -- Education -- Cross-cultural studies
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Nomads -- Education -- Cross-cultural studies
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EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life.
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Children of migrant laborers -- Education
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Nomads -- Education
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Danaher, Patrick Alan, 1959-
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Kenny, Máirín.
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Leder, Judith Remy.
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| LC no. |
2008049323 |
| ISBN |
9780203878675 |
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0203878671 |
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