Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education

by Danaher; Patrick Alan

• ISBN13: 9780415963565
• ISBN10: 0415963567
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Educationpresents 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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Acronyms

Foreword

Migrant Education as World Model

Preface

Acknowledgments

Editorial Introduction: Three Dimensions of Changing Schools

Moving Lives: A Reflective Account of a Three Generation Travelling Attractionist Family in Italy

Inclusive Education for Children and Young People with Interrupted Learning in Scotland

Itinerant Farm Workers' Children in Australia: Learning from the Experiences of One Family

Cultural Difference or Subversion in England: A Question of Perspective

Promoting Educational Access for the Indigenous Reindeer Herders, Fisherpeople and Hunters in the Nomadic Schools of Yakutia, Russian Federation

Australian Romani

The Telesis of Nigerian Nomadic Education

Irish Travellers, Identity and the Education System

The Revitalisation of a Threatened Indigenous Language: The Case of the Sami People in Norway

Paradoxes in Policy: Mixed Messages for Fairground and Gypsy Traveller Families in England

Australian Circus People

Against the Odds: Roma Population Schooling in Spain

Schooling and the Rabaris of Kachchh in India: The Need for Change

Inclusion Versus Specialisation: Issues in Transforming the Education of Australian Show Children

Conclusion: Whither Changing Schools?

LederRespondent's Text

Notes on Contributors

Index

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