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The education experience of Gypsy/Travellers
Maureen Finn, STEP
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How is education experienced?
• The data• The educator• The Gypsy/Traveller
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• 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
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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
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• More competition for traditional jobs
• The theory test• Digital potential in
Business• Good relations with
teachers• Recognition of ethnicity• Pupil motivation
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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
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But why don’t you want to come in? We’re inclusive…we’ll
teach you to be like us!
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‘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.....’
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Government
Exam board
School
Teacher
Curriculum
Mobile learner
International competition
Business and industry
Policy
National targets
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Government
Exam board
School
Teacher
Curriculum
Mobile learner
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Moble learner
Teacher
Flexible curriculum
Family
Culture
Digital media
Communitysupport
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Recognition or inclusion
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What does digital media offer?
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Creative, culturally relevant, skills-based
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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?
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