Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education

ISBN-13: 9780415963565 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 242 str.

Patrick Alan Danaher;Máirín Kenny

Opis

Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education presents international accounts of approaches to educating mobile communities such as circus and fairground people, herders, hunters, Roma and Travellers. The chapters focus on three key dimensions of educational change: the client group moving from school to school; those schools having their demographics changed and seeking to change the mobile learners; and these learners contributing to fundamental change to the nature of schooling. The book brings together decades of research into the challenges and opportunities presented by mobile learners interacting with educational systems predicated on fixed residence. It identifies several obstacles to those learners receiving an equitable education, including negative stereotypes and centuries-old prejudice. Yet the book also explores a number of educational innovations that bring mobility and schooling together, ranging from specialised literacy programs and distance and online education to mobile schools and specially trained teachers. These innovations allow us to think differently about how education can and should be, for mobile and non-mobile learners alike.

This collection presents international case studies of the educational experiences and opportunities of people who travel for cultural reasons or to earn their living. The book examines the relationship between the two worlds of a mobile learner’s home and school. Their mobility means that these people have to change schools regularly (monthly or even weekly). Each case study investigates whether, and how, two other kinds of change occur. One is change to the individual Traveller, nomad or migrant worker, who has to cross the boundary between the two worlds. The other is change to the institution of schooling, which might be encouraged and assisted to bring the two worlds of home and school more closely together. The case studies provide an up to date account of Traveller, nomadic and migrant education, and of educational change in Europe, Italy, England, Scotland, Ireland, Nigeria, India and Australia.

Spis treści

Foreword: Migrant Education as World Model.  Jean-Pierre Liégeois.  Preface.  William Binchy.  Acknowledgments.  Editorial Introduction: Three Dimensions of Changing Schools.  Máirín Kenny and Patrick Alan Danaher  1. Moving Lives: A Reflective Account of a Three Generation Travelling Attractionist Family in Italy  Francesca Gobbo  2. Inclusive Education for Children and Young People with Interrupted Learning in Scotland  Pauline Padfield and Gillian Cameron  3. Itinerant Farm Workers’ Children in Australia: Learning from the Experiences of One Family  Robyn Henderson  4. Cultural Difference or Subversion in England: A Question of Perspective Martin Levinson  5. Promoting Educational Access for the Indigenous Reindeer Herders, Fisherpeople and Hunters in the Nomadic Schools of Yakutia, Russian Federation  Vassily A. Robbek, Feodisia V. Gabysheva, Rozalia S. Nikitina and Natalia V. Sitnikova  6. Australian Romani  Wendy Morrow  7. The Telesis of Nigerian Nomadic Education  Abdurrahman Umar and Gidado Tahir  8. Irish Travellers, Identity and the Education System  Máirín Kenny and Alice Binchy  9. The Revitalisation of a Threatened Indigenous Language: The Case of the Sami People in Norway  Kamil Özerk  10. Paradoxes in Policy: Mixed Messages for Fairground and Gypsy Traveller Families in England  Cathy Kiddle  11. Australian Circus People  Beverley Moriarty  12. Against the Odds: Roma Population Schooling in Spain  Manuel Souto Otero  13. Schooling and the Rabaris of Kachchh in India: The Need for Change Caroline Dyer  14. 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.  Respondent’s Text  Judith A. Gouwens

O autorze

Patrick Alan Danaher is Associate Professor (Education Research) in the Faculty of Education, and Scholarship of Learning and Teaching Program Leader in the Centre for Research in Transformative Pedagogies, at the Toowoomba campus of the University of Southern Queensland University, Australia.

Máirín Kenny was Headmistress until 1998 of a primary school for Traveller children. She now works as a research consultant, and has written and lectured extensively on intercultural school provision and on Travellers’ ethnic identity.

Judith Remy Leder is a writing consultant and retired Director of the California State University, Fullerton, Business Writing Program.