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The schooling of Roma children in Belgium. The parents' voice

Document number
2080
Date
2009
Title
The schooling of Roma children in Belgium. The parents' voice
Author/publisher
King Baudouin Foundation
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Economy in transition, Youth employment, State socialism, Socio-Economic transition, Discrimination, Unemployment, Poverty, Community development, Social security, Social exclusion, Health care, Drugs abuse, Health, HIV/AIDS, Globalisation;
Summary

Given the angle assumed, this study is characterized by a somewhat original bias: the desire to hear the Roma’s own voice, to get Roma parents to express their own point of view concerning their children’s and their own schooling, the difficulties they face in life and their vision of the world. This may seem rather obvious, but this is not what happens in reality: the Roma’s own voice is all too rarely heard. Not only regarding this subject, but on other issues too. The very essence of this project is thus in the methodology adopted: a study conducted among Roma mothers, and later Roma fathers, in order to better understand the Roma’s relationship with schooling, so that the findings could be based on their perceptions and experience

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