“What is the problem represented to be?” Two decades of research on Roma and education in Europe

Lauritzen, Solvor Mjøberg; Nodeland, Tuva Skjelbred

doi:10.1016/j.edurev.2018.04.002

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“…A two-stage process was used to select the material for the analysis that follows in this article. First, 151 peer-reviewed journal articles were identified for review (Lauritzen and Nodeland 2018). These papers were gathered through digital searches combining the terms Gyps*, Roma*, or Traveller*, with education* or school*.…”

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Nomadism in Research on Roma Education

Lauritzen

2019

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This paper analyzes to what degree and how educational research from a European context explains Roma disadvantage in education by referring to nomadism. Three thematic areas emerged from an analysis of 55 research papers. First, that Roma are closely associated with nomadism in the literature, creating an essentialist discourse. Second, that anti-nomadism contributes to explaining and justifying Roma exclusion. Third, that this impacts how the relationship between Roma and education is uderstood. Nomadism is seen as both incompatible with and in opposition to education, and nomadic learning is seen as a distinct learning style. All in all, the analysis shows that knowledge production on Roma and education has established a discourse where it is legitimate to use nomadism to explain Roma disadvantage ineducation. This understanding builds on an essentialist view of Romani culture, and it elaborates and sustains key tropes of antigypsyist discourses.

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“…This included papers primarily grounded in a different subject area. SeeLauritzen and Nodeland (2018) for a more detailed description.2 These were: anti-education, anti-nomadism, assimilation, comparisons, definitions, discriminatory practices, education, forced sedentarization, identity, nomadic essentialism, nomadic lifestyle, and nomadic practices.…”

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Nomadism in Research on Roma Education

Lauritzen

2019

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“…(Kyuchukov 2011) Numerous further studies were conducted on Roma society. There is also an analysis on the subject that reviews studies on Roma and education, covering the period 1997-2016. (Lauritzen -Nodeland 2018 In 2019, there are still 68% of Roma in Europe who leave education early, while the Europe 2020 early school leavers target is 10%.…”

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Bari Shej Case Study – Mentoring Program to Reduce School Drop-Out Rates for Teenage Roma Girls

Pupek¹

2020

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The programs for disadvantaged Roma (Gipsy) girls are aimed at catching up, talent development, and integration into the labor market and society. The Bari Shej (Big Girl) project aims to reduce the school drop-out rate of disadvantaged Roma girls and to increase their chances of further education through a mentoring system. The Bari Shej case study is an evaluation of a mentoring system, the exchange of practical experiences by analyzing the views of participants and stakeholders. The research included an analysis of the monthly data reporting of the mentors, with focus group studies. Mentees' opinions were collected through a questionnaire. A questionnaire and in-depth interviews were conducted with stakeholders from the wider environment. The organizations involved in the project filled out a template for structured collection of good practices. In-depth interviews were conducted with the decision makers defining the framework of the project. Through document analysis, various scientific results, mentoring methods, statistical indicators and trends were analyzed. This study presents good practices that have been implemented in Hungary by a number of non-governmental organizations under the coordination of an authority with the support of the European Union.

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“…Such stigmatisation bears little relation to actual lives but is readily supported within political and media discourses (Kroon et al., 2016; Richardson, 2014). Surveying 20 years of research, Lauritzen and Nodeland (2018) note that Roma education is often problematised in deficit terms and that cultural problems are prioritised over socio-economic issues. Aikman et al.…”

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An inheritance of exclusion: Roma education, genetics and the turn to biosocial solutions

Myers

2019

Research in Education

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Since the 1990s an increasing body of genetic studies of Roma people has been conducted and used to understand their lives. This includes research on health issues such as genetic predispositions to obesity or high cholesterol levels and the migration of European Roma from the Indian subcontinent. Such work needs to be contextualised within the wide-ranging historical oppression of Roma people including their enslavement, the Holocaust, denial of human rights and a lack of access to education. Aligning genetics research to educational policy has often been problematic in the context of discredited, ‘race’ science; recently more nuanced arguments have promoted ‘post-genomic’ solutions, such as biosocial strategies, that address social justice issues. This article argues that an economy of knowledge emerges in the ‘postgenomic era’ that privileges predominantly White European, majority populations and this is particularly apparent in the context of the Roma. The promotion of educational solutions framed by genetics research underpins how cultural capital, in this case scientific knowledge and its framing within social theory such as Deleuzian assemblage will, in all likelihood, maintain the status quo for the Roma.

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“What is the problem represented to be?” Two decades of research on Roma and education in Europe

Cited by 45 publications

References 141 publications

Nomadism in Research on Roma Education

Nomadism in Research on Roma Education

Bari Shej Case Study – Mentoring Program to Reduce School Drop-Out Rates for Teenage Roma Girls

An inheritance of exclusion: Roma education, genetics and the turn to biosocial solutions

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