ECMI panel on Roma and Education

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ECMI panel on Roma and Education

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From: "McKinney" <[email protected]>
 
ECMI Panel on Roma and Education
 
The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) is organising a panel
on "Education Policies for Roma Children in Europe" at the
international conference "Tolerance, Respect and Human Rights" (Second
International Seminar of the Teachers for Tolerance/GSFI Initiative,
Prague, 20-22 January 2000).

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The aim of this panel is to evaluate the ongoing policies and actions
in Europe regarding the education of Roma children and to contribute
to the development of adequate education programmes for Roma children.
Various models of education policy will be presented, with an emphasis
on best-practice and those developed by Roma themselves. The panel
will deal with questions of integrated vs. segregated education,
linguistic issues and will draw on theory as well as practical
experiences from several countries including Finland, Macedonia,
Hungary and the Czech Republic. In conclusion, the panel will attempt
to identify the conditions which might contribute to the success of a
given model. The discussions and conclusions of the panel will be
published in the ECMI reports series.
 
Programme:

- Keynote speech: Ms. Josephine VERSPAGET (Chair of the Specialist
Group on Roma/Gypsies at the Council of Europe)
 
- Dr. Tove SKUTNABB-KANGAS (Institute for Language and Culture,
Roskilde University, Denmark)

- Ms. Miranda VUOLASRANTA (Advisory Board on Romani Affairs, Ministry
of Social Affairs, Helsinki, Finland)

- Mr. Sejdo JASAROV (Roma Participation Program, Open Society
Institute, Budapest)
 
- Ms. Dimitrina PETROVNA (Executive Director, European Roma Rights
Center, Budapest)
 
- Co-Chairs: Dr. Francois Grin (ECMI Acting Director) and Ms. Farimah
Daftary (ECMI Research Associate)
 
For more information, please contact ECMI Research Associate Farimah
Daftary at [email protected].

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European Centre for Minority Issues
William McKinney
Librarian
Schiffbruecke 12
D-24939 Flensburg, Germany

e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.ecmi.de

Tel: +49 461 1414970
Fax: +49 461 1414969
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