the education experience of gypsy/travellers maureen finn, step
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The education experience of Gypsy/Travellers
Maureen Finn, STEP
How is education experienced?
• The data• The educator• The Gypsy/Traveller
• Cultural dilution• Interferes with
traditional work patterns
• Not enough time to keep in touch
• No family history of attendance
• Curriculum not relevant-don’t understandits value
• Bullying and discrimination
• Safety• Not welcome in
school• Poverty-related
Issues• Bureaucracy• No role
models
Schooling has never been seen as having an educative function, but simply as offering a possibility – which one may exploit or not…of mastering a code used by non-Gypsies: writing.
Liegeois, 1998
• More competition for traditional jobs
• The theory test• Digital potential in
Business• Good relations with
teachers• Recognition of ethnicity• Pupil motivation
What are we doing?
‘…aim of inclusion is for all learners to be present in mainstream school and of maximising their participation in the life of the school when present.
I am not convinced that presence and participation are, of themselves, enough to address the deep structural inequalities, which many children experience.’
A. Dyson in Clough and Corbett, 2000
But why don’t you want to come in? We’re inclusive…we’ll
teach you to be like us!
‘Education offers the promise of freedom – three freedoms
“from” and five freedoms “to”.
These are: freedom from ignorance; freedom from economic
want; freedom from political, social and economic manipulation.
The others are the freedom to develop intellectual and practical
capacities; to put talents and capacities to the service of society;
to exercise critical and informed judgements; to develop
understanding and personal integrity; to respect fellow humans
and associates in a community of equals.....’
Government
Exam board
School
Teacher
Curriculum
Mobile learner
International competition
Business and industry
Policy
National targets
Government
Exam board
School
Teacher
Curriculum
Mobile learner
Moble learner
Teacher
Flexible curriculum
Family
Culture
Digital media
Communitysupport
Recognition or inclusion
What does digital media offer?
Creative, culturally relevant, skills-based
Key issues
• Supporting young people and families between two worlds.• Tension between policy and accountability (input/output)?• Recognition of the new professional dilemas- working with
uncertainty?• Harnessing digital media as creative pedagogy?
To know more about the work of STEP, get links to our new website materials and receive information feeds contact:Jean.oliver@ed.ac.ukmaureen.finn@ed.ac.uk@mobileandlearn
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