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Integration Through Education. 1. To Integrate - by Segregating?. National minorities living in Hungary have the r ight to found and to run educational institutions The aims of the schools are: To transmit minority culture To preserve the language and the values of the minority
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1. To Integrate - by Segregating? • National minorities living in Hungary have the rightto found and to run educational institutions • The aims of the schools are: • To transmit minority culture • To preserve the language and the values of the minority • To strengthen self-confidence
3. Roma in Hungary • Linguistico-cultural groups • Romungros (71%) • Beash (6%) • Lovari (23%) • Sedentary way of life • Social status
5. Roma Minority Education: the Aims • TO PRESERVE THE VALUES AND THE LANGUAGE • TO GUARANTEE QUALITY • SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT • SELECTION ON THE BASIS OF CAPACITIES • A SOUND SELF-IMAGE • EMPHASIS ON POSITIVE ELEMENTS
6. Roma minority educationAIM: TO PRESERVE THE VALUES AND THE LANGUAGE • Transmission of the culture • Multiculturalism, multilinguism – an asset • Positive self-image:- Basis for integration - Emphasis on the positive cultural and linguistic elements
7. Roma minority education AIM: TO GUARANTEE QUALITY To know the impact of cultural, linguistic and social disadvantages on learning
8. Roma minority education AIM: SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT • To adapt methods, teaching materials and technology • To expect school achievement .
9. Roma minority education AIM: SELECTION ON THE BASIS OF CAPACITIES • Minority education is not equal to language teaching !
10. Roma minority education – aim:A SOUND SELF-IMAGE EMPHASIS ON POSITIVE ELEMENTS
11. ONCE AGAIN: To integrate – by segregating? • How does a minority school contribute to integration?
12. Integration: Capacities and tools • PREPARING STUDENTS - Competences - Socialisation – participation – common code
13. Integration = capability to lead a life within society • Positive self-image • Knowledge and information • Programmes and opportunities
15. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING SCHOOL • A short history • Principles and school curriculum • Staff members • Students and parents • Results
16. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING SCHOOL • History - 1992 – a foundation - 1993 – Act on the Minorities- 1994 – first class enrolled - 1999 – opening of the sports hall - 2000 – first students completing secondary education - 2002 – opening of the building of the secondary school
17. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING SCHOOL • Principles - To join forces with the parents - Methodological diversity - School achievement - Attention and care - Respect and tolerance
18. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING SCHOOL • Staff members - Co-operation - Continuous self-training - Achievement - Exactitude
19. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING SCHOOL • Students and parents • Enrolment • Contact keeping • The Day of Parents
20. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING SCHOOL • Curriculum - Length of the education • Special subjects • Students’ hostel and afternoon programmes • Projects and festivities
21. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING SCHOOL • Results -136 students with a successful secondary school leaving exam -94 university students -34 students in specialised vocational training
22. What is the role of the language in education? • Strength – positive self-image – preservation ofvalues • Equal ranks – equal rights • Belonging to a community – building a community • Language: travelling and seeing the world, a tool • The Bologna process: an advantage – bilingual minority students + English • International Roma contacts – representation
23. How is language teaching implemented? THE SITUATION OF ROMA LANGUAGES IN HUNGARY: - Standardisation - Teaching the language - Secondary school leaving examination - Language proficiency exams - Schoolbooks - Teachers’ training
24. Why do people learn Roma languages in today’s Hungary? A DEMAND OF THE ROMA: - Native language – language proficiency exam - Bilingualism – in the Bologna process: with English added - At European and international level: representation – common language
25. Why do people learn Roma languages in today’s Hungary? A DEMAND OF THE MEMBERS OF THE MAJORITY SOCIETY: • Language proficiency exam • Langauge teaching as an element of further training courses: - for teachers - for police-officers - in the social and health sector
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Csovcsics Erika:csovcsics@gandhi-gimn.sulinet.hu www.gandhi-gimn.sulinet.hu