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ENAR ERIO Conference Brussels, 28th-29th April
2006

• The Roma and Equal Access to Education
• From Segregation to Integrated Schooling

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Feeling Wanted, Respected and Valued Curriculum
Inclusion is Important for Happy and Successful
LearningA.Ivatts_at_ukgateway.net

• Welcome to the most important debate/discussion
  in Europe!
• You will be part of it!

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Feeling Wanted, Respected and Valued
Curriculum Inclusion is Important

• CONTENTS
• Introductions
• Knowledge Infected by Nationalism
• How Children Experience Happy and Successful
  Learning
• Models of Roma/Gypsy and Traveller Curriculum
  Inclusion, Exposure and Exclusion
• Best Practice Cross-Curricular Models
• Looking at Materials/Books/Toys
• Discussion Structure

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Knowledge Infected by Nationalism

• Role of schools to transmit knowledge
• State curriculum influences on the school
• Knowledge delivery linked to money
• Slow curriculum change to diversity
• Curriculum always as battlefield!

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How Children Experience Happy and Successful
Learning

• Clear statements of individual acceptance
• Clear expectations that they can and well learn
• Careful preparation of interesting and relevant
  material matched to individual needs
• Good teaching with high expectations and respect
  for equality issues
• Knowledge content that affirms personal and group
  identity and individual worth
• Achievement that boosts self-respect and
  self-esteem

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Models of Rome/Gypsy and Traveller Curriculum
Inclusion, Exposure and Exclusion

• Curriculum exclusion and negative results
• Curriculum negative inclusion with negative
  results
• Curriculum inclusion as tokenism and or
  exotic
• Curriculum inclusion as permeation of knowledge
  for all children which embraces ethnic and
  cultural diversity

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Best Practice Cross-Curricular Models (1)

• Early years (toys/clothes/books/pictures/language/
  family-home references etc)
• Primary education (cross curricular knowledge
  content to reflect population/pupil diversity
  ethnicity/culture/language/religion and
  books/pictures/works of art/toys/artefacts/visits/
  family-home and community references)
• Open and free Extra Curricular activities/clubs/ho
  bbies etc. with possible cultural orientation

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Best Practice Cross-Curricular Models (2)

• Secondary and further education knowledge
  reflective of ethnic and cultural/language
  diversity.
• Options of specialist course selection