{"id":1725,"date":"2014-01-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/24-01-2014-rroma-and-education-policy-in-great-britain\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:48:36","slug":"24-01-2014-rroma-and-education-policy-in-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/24-01-2014-rroma-and-education-policy-in-great-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"24.01.2014 Rroma and education policy in Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Le Bas (2014) takes a critical look at the education policies in Great \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBritain and the integration of Rroma into public educational institutions. He \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnotes that the Rroma are strongly under-represented in public schools: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201eThe mental age of an average adult Gypsy is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthought to be about that of a child of 10, said the 1959 edition of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEncyclopaedia Britannica, 14 years after the end of the Nazi genocide of Romany \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGypsies. This week new analysis of the 2011 census has been released by the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOffice for National Statistics. It revealed that of the 58,000 people who \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tidentified themselves as being of Gypsy\/Traveller ethnicity, 60% had no formal \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tqualifications whatsoever.\u201d<\/em> However, the equation \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof Rroma and travellers as an ethnic group is wrong. Most English travellers \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcan be traced back to Irish travellers who have their own origins. Le Bas \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcontinues on the question of what factors lead to low school enrolment rates \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tamong Rroma. In addition to obvious factors such as discrimination, he also \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdeals with sensitive cultural explanations, but he immediately qualifies these \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto the benefit of individual experiences: As among other ethnic groups, there \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tare some Rroma families who value education more than others. The crucial \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tquestion remains how to integrate the Rroma successfully into society as a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhole.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Le Bas, Damian (2014) Yes, Gypsies lag in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teducation, but the reasons are complex and cultural. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The Guardian online<\/em> vom 22.1.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/jan\/22\/gypsies-lagging-education-gypsies-travellers\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/jan\/22\/gypsies-lagging-education-gypsies-travellers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Bas (2014) takes a critical look at the education policies in Great Britain and the integration of Rroma into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[92,35,63,24,23,649,133,65],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-racism","tag-roma","tag-rroma","tag-schools","tag-stereotypes","tag-travellers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13574,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/13574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}