Integration Through Education

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Integration Through Education
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1. To Integrate - by Segregating?

• National minorities living in Hungary have the
  right to found and to run educational
  institutions
• The aims of the schools are
• To transmit minority culture
• To preserve the language and the values  of the
  minority
• To strengthen self-confidence

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2. Size of National Minority Communities in
Hungary
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3. Roma in Hungary

• Linguistico-cultural groups
•     Romungros (71)
•     Beash (6)
•     Lovari (23)
• Sedentary way of life
• Social status

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4. Member of a Minority and a Citizen
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5. Roma Minority Education the Aims

• TO PRESERVE THE VALUES AND THE LANGUAGE
• TO GUARANTEE QUALITY
• SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT
• SELECTION ON THE BASIS OF CAPACITIES
• A SOUND SELF-IMAGE
• EMPHASIS ON POSITIVE ELEMENTS

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6. Roma minority educationAIM  TO PRESERVE
THE VALUES AND THE LANGUAGE

• Transmission of the culture
• Multiculturalism, multilinguism an asset
• Positive self-image -     Basis for integration
  -     Emphasis on the positive cultural and
  linguistic elements

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7. Roma minority education AIM  TO GUARANTEE
QUALITY

•   To know the impact of cultural, linguistic and
  social disadvantages on learning

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8. Roma minority education AIM SCHOOL
ACHIEVEMENT

• To adapt methods, teaching materials and
  technology
• To expect school achievement .

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9. Roma minority education AIM SELECTION ON THE
BASIS OF CAPACITIES

• Minority education is not equal to language
  teaching !

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10. Roma minority education aim A SOUND
SELF-IMAGE EMPHASIS ON POSITIVE ELEMENTS
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11. ONCE AGAIN To integrate by segregating?

• How does a minority school contribute to
  integration?

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12. Integration Capacities and tools     

• PREPARING STUDENTS -     Competences
• - Socialisation
• participation
• common code

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13. Integration capability to lead a life
within society

•     Positive self-image
•     Knowledge and information
• Programmes and opportunities

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14. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING
SCHOOL
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15. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING
SCHOOL

• A short history
• Principles and school curriculum
• Staff members
• Students and parents
• Results

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16. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING
SCHOOL

• History -     1992 a foundation
• - 1993 Act on the Minorities-     1994
  first class enrolled -     1999 opening of the
  sports hall -     2000 first students
  completing secondary education -     2002
  opening of the building of the secondary school
  

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17. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING
SCHOOL

• Principles -     To join forces with the parents
  -     Methodological diversity -     School
  achievement -     Attention and care -
      Respect and tolerance

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18. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING
SCHOOL

•   Staff members -     Co-operation -
      Continuous self-training -     Achievement
  -     Exactitude

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19. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING
SCHOOL

• Students and parents
• Enrolment
• Contact keeping
• The Day of Parents

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20. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING
SCHOOL

• Curriculum
• - Length of the education
• Special subjects
• Students hostel and afternoon programmes
• Projects and festivities

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21. GANDHI PUBLIC FOUNDATION SECONDARY BOARDING
SCHOOL

• Results -136 students with a successful
  secondary school leaving exam -94 university
  students -34 students in specialised vocational
  training

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22. What is the role of the language in
education?

• Strength positive self-image preservation of
  values
• Equal ranks equal rights
• Belonging to a community building a community
• Language travelling and seeing the world, a tool
• The Bologna process an advantage bilingual
  minority students English
• International Roma contacts representation

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23. How is language teaching implemented?

• THE SITUATION OF ROMA LANGUAGES IN HUNGARY -
      Standardisation -     Teaching the language
  -     Secondary school leaving examination -
      Language proficiency exams -     Schoolbooks
  -     Teachers training

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24. Why do people learn Roma languages in todays
Hungary?

• A DEMAND OF THE ROMA - Native language
  language proficiency exam - Bilingualism in
  the Bologna process with English added - At
  European and international level representation
  common language

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25. Why do people learn Roma languages in todays
Hungary?

• A DEMAND OF THE MEMBERS OF THE MAJORITY SOCIETY
      Language proficiency exam     Langauge
  teaching as an element of further training
  courses -     for teachers -     for
  police-officers -     in the social and health
  sector

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