Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities

by Griffin, Rosarii; MacEinri, Piaras; Brock, Colin

• ISBN13: 9781472513601
• ISBN10: 1472513606
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-08-14
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities provides a thorough examination of up-to-date case studies of educational provision to travelling communities and indigenous people in their homelands or in host countries. Education is usually under-utilised during phases of transition. In many instances, indigenous groups and travelling people, including nomads, do not have educational opportunities equal to that of their settled counterpart-citizens. For such groups, this results in early school leaving, high school drop-out rates, low school attendance and low success rates. Indeed, indigenous, traveling and nomadic groups often begin their working life at an early age and often experience difficulties penetrating the formal employment arena.

In this volume international researchers analyse the internal and external factors affecting educational provision to travelling, nomadic and indigenous groups. A comparative examination of the issues is enabled through the global case studies including the Roma people in Europe; indigenous groups in Malaysia; the Gypsies of England; the Travellers of Ireland; the Sami nomadic people of Scandinavia and Russia as well as the Amazonian Indians of Latin America.

Author Biography

Rosarii Griffin is Director of the Centre for Global Development through Education, Immaculate College, Ireland, and publishes widely on international education.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface, Colin Brock
Introduction: Educational in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities: A Global Overview, Rosarii Griffin (University College Cork, Ireland) and Piaras MacEinri (University College Cork, Ireland)
1.Cross-Cultural Communication and Change: Travellers and Roma in the Irish Education System, Dr Máirín Kenny (Education Consultant, Ireland)
2.Education as Cultural Conflict: The Case of English Gypsies in the South of England, Dr Juliet McCaffery (University of Sussex, UK)
3. A Case Study of Gypsy Travellers in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, Judith Smith (Minority Ethnic and Traveller Attainment Service (METAS), UK) and Helen Worrsell (Family and Early Years Learning Officer, UK)
4.Multi-Dimensional Sámi Education: Towards Culture Sensitive Policies, Pigga Keskitalo (Sámi University College, Norway), Kaarina Määttä (University of Lapland, Finland) and Satu Uusiautti (University of Lapland, Finland)
5.Roma/Traveller Inclusion in Europe: Why Informal Education is Winning, Christine O'Hanlon (University of East Anglia, UK)
6.Education and ‘Orang Asli’ in Malaysia: A Country Case Study,, Hema Letchamanan (Taylor’s University, Malaysia) and Firdaus Ramli (Taylor’s University, Malaysia)
7.Indigenous Groups’ Education: The Case of North America, Lorenzo Cherubini (Brock University, Canada)
8.Intercultural Bilingual Education, Self-Determination and Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon Basin, Sheila Aikman (University of East Anglia, UK)
Index