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LIFELONG LEARNING AND THE ROMA MINORITY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

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LIFELONG LEARNING AND THE ROMA MINORITY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

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ANDREA ÓHIDY AND KATALIN R. FORRAY

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Contents

Lists of Figures and Tables

About the Contributors

Dana Bittnerová (Czech Republic) is a Teacher and a Researcher at the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Education and Department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. She focusses on research of Roma and the relationship between Roma and majority from the point of view of cognitive anthropology, cultural psychology and philosophy of education.

Julianna Boros (Hungary) is Assistant Lecturer at University of Pécs. Main focus of her PhD thesis was the educational and social opportunities of young Roma/Gypsy people. She is a Romungro Gypsy woman; her husband is a Boyash Gypsy man, both first-generation Roma intellectuals and parents of two children, Anna and Matthew.

Aurora Adina Colomeischi (Romania) is an Associate Professor at Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava. Her main research and academic interests are counselling and emotional education, promoting social and emotional competence at school. She coordinates master studies programs in education. She is a Member of the international and national professional associations and participates in developing international educational projects.

Maria Diacon (Republic of Moldova) holds a Phd in Political Science and an Associate Professor. Her teaching area: European Economic Integration (bachelor level), European Sistems of Education in Lifelong Learning Centre (Tiraspol State University); research area: political parties, European Integration process, European sistemes of education, good practices in teaching (Institute of Legal, Political and Sociological Research); and the project activity: Jean Monnet Professor, Coordinator of Jean Monnet Module, ERASMUS+ Programme. The title of the project: Formation of Competences for Teaching the Course of European Integration for You in Modern School.

David Doubek (Czech Republic) is a Teacher and a Researcher at the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague. He focusses on research of Roma and the relationship between Roma and majority from the point of view of cognitive anthropology, cultural psychology and philosophy of education.

Katalin R. Forray (Hungary), is a Doctor of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Founder of the Doctoral School for Education and of the Department of Romani Studies at the University Pécs. She is also a member of Hungarian and International Organisations for Roma. Her research interests include integration of minorities, multiculturalism, social and regional factors of education and women in education.

Eszter Gergye (Hungary) is a PhD student at the ‘Education and Society’ Doctoral School of Education and Assistant at the Department of Romology and Sociology of Education at University of Pécs. Her PhD dissertation topic is: ‘Linguistic landscape – Schools-cape focussing on Gypsy languages in Hungary’, mainly focussing on Boyash Gypsy language appearance.

Natascha Hofmann (Germany) lectures at IES Abroad EU Centre and the University of Education in Freiburg focussing on pedagogy of migration, mechanisms of discrimination and diversity. Furthermore, she is engaged in a qualification programme for Sinti and Roma educational advisors. She is currently writing her dissertation on Romnja educational biographies.

Milena Ivova Ilieva (Bulgaria) is an Associate Professor for Theory of Education and Didactics (Multicultural Educational Environment) at the Trakia University, and has a PhD in Theory of Education and Didactics. Her scientific interests are in the field of multicultural education, inclusive education, juvenile and juvenile delinquency, health education and social education services for marginalised communities.

Goran Lapat (Croatia) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb. His research interest is in the field of school pedagogy, didactics and andragogy. He presented papers at international conferences and wrote various scientific papers.

Markéta Levínská (Czech Republic) is a Teacher and a Researcher at the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of Hradec Králové. She focusses on research of Roma and the relationship between Roma and majority from the point of view of cognitive anthropology, cultural psychology and philosophy of education.

Renata Miljević-Riđički (Croatia) is a Full Professor of Developmental Psychology and Education for Development at the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Zagreb. She has presented her papers at numerous international conferences and wrote various scientific books and papers. She is a member of the Crisis Intervention Team – Society for Psychological Assistance.

Andrea Óhidy (Germany), Dipl. Päd. Dr phil. habil., is a Professor and Head of the Institute of Education Sciences at the University of Education in Freiburg. Her research interests include educational policy in the European Union, Lifelong Learning and educational participation of Roma. She has published in these areas in German, Hungarian and English.

Wiktor Osuch (Poland) holds a Phd and an Associate Professor and Vice Dean of the Faculty for Geography and Biology at the Pedagogical University of Cracow, Institute of Geography, Department of Didactics of Geography. His major research interests are in the field of didactic geography: teacher’s education, teaching practice, geography teacher’s professional competences, key competences, teaching methods, geography curriculum and school-books, national and ethnic minority education, and local and regional economic development and sustainable development.

Rastislav Rosinský (Slovakia), PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. In his research studies, he focusses on the issues of children from socially excluded communities, particularly Roma, and their problems related to education.

Agnieszka Świętek (Poland), holds a PhD in Geography (titled Education as an Element of the Standard of Living of the Roma Ethnic Minority). She was born in Cracow and graduated from the Faculty of Geography at the Pedagogical University of Cracow. She is a University Lecturer employed in the Didactics of Geography Department, Institute of Geography at the Pedagogical University of Cracow. Her major research interests: Roma ethnic minority, national and ethnic minority education, and didactic of geography. She is the Author of two scientific monographs on the Roma minority in southern Poland: The Standard of Living of Roma in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship and Education of Roma Students in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship based on own research carried out among the Roma community. Experienced at working in Erasmus+ Programmes (related to the Roma minority): 2012–2015 – Transfer of innovation, multilateral projects ‘Common Goals – Common Ways’ and 2014–2017 – ‘Reaching the Lost Generation’.

Acknowledgements

English proofreading:

Michael Forrest Baxter, Lia Boldt, Mary Carmody, Robin Valerie Cathey, Matthias Eickhoff, Nina Ortmann, Eva-Maria Strittmatter and John Ziesemer.

Layout: Kerstin Wedekämper

Special thanks to: Michael Forrest Baxter, Lia Boldt, Mary Carmody, Robin Valerie Cathey, Carmel Cefai, Matthias Eickhoff, Katarzyna Jagielska, Solvejg Jobst, Tamás Kozma, Nina Ortmann, Ludmila Rigova, Eva-Maria Strittmatter, Kerstin Wedekämper and John Ziesemer.