Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities

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Rosarii Griffin
A&C Black, Jun 26, 2014 - Education - 216 pages
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.
 

Contents

A Global Overview
1
Travellers and Roma and the Irish Education System
23
Gypsies and Travellers in Southern England
45
3 A Case Study of Educational Experiences of Gypsies and Travellers in the East Riding of Yorkshire UK
71
Towards CultureSensitive Policies
93
Why Informal Education is Winning
111
A Country Case Study
135
The Case of North America
149
8 Intercultural Bilingual Education SelfDetermination and Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon Basin
169
Index
189
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Rosarii Griffin is Director of the Centre for Global Development through Education, Immaculate College, Ireland.

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