Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education
by Danaher, Patrick Alan; Kenny, Mairin; Remy Leder, JudithPub. Date: 2009-04-21
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
This edited collection explores the challenges and innovations in providing education for mobile communities across the world. While obstacles such as negative stereotypes and centuries-old prejudice remain problematic, the book also shows how educational innovations such as online education and mobile schools are bringing mobility and schooling together.
Table of Contents
| Foreword: Migrant Education as World Model | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Editorial Introduction: Three Dimensions of Changing Schools | |
| Moving Lives: A Reflective Account of a Three Generation Travelling Attractionist Family in Italy | |
| Inclusive Education for Children and Young People with Interrupted Learning in Scotland | |
| Itinerant Farm Workers' Children in Australia: Learning from the Experiences of One Family | |
| Cultural Difference or Subversion in England: A Question of Perspective | |
| Promoting Educational Access for the Indigenous Reindeer Herders, Fisherpeople and Hunters in the Nomadic Schools of Yakutia, Russian Federation | |
| Australian Romani | |
| The Telesis of Nigerian Nomadic Education | |
| Irish Travellers, Identity and the Education System | |
| The Revitalisation of a Threatened Indigenous Language: The Case of the Sami People in Norway | |
| Paradoxes in Policy: Mixed Messages for Fairground and Gypsy Traveller Families in England | |
| Australian Circus People | |
| Against the Odds: Roma Population Schooling in Spain | |
| Schooling and the Rabaris of Kachchh in India: The Need for Change | |
| Inclusion Versus Specialisation: Issues in Transforming the Education of Australian Show Children | |
| Conclusion: Whither Changing Schools? | |
| Respondent's Text | |
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