Education in indigenous, nomadic and travelling communities

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Rosarii Griffin, Colin Brock
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Education in indigenous, nomadic and travelling communities

"Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities provides a thorough examination of up-to-date case studies of educational provision to travelling communities and indigenous people in their homeland or in host countries. Education is usually under-utilised during phases of transition. In many instances, indigenous groups and travelling people, including nomads, do not have educational opportunities equal to that of their settled counterpart-citizens of their country resulting in early school leaving, high school drop-out rates, low school attendance and low success rates resulting in such groups beginning their working life at an early age and finding difficulty penetrating the formal employment arena. In this volume international researchers analyse the internal and external factors affecting educational provision to travelling, nomadic and indigenous groups. Global case studies including the Roma people in Europe; indigenous groups in Malaysia; the nomadic tribes of Afghanistan as well as the Amazonian Indians of Latin America enable a comparative examination of the issues"--

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Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities
2014, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Education in indigenous, nomadic and travelling communities
2014, Bloomsbury Academic
in English
Cover of: Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities
Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities
2014, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
Cover of: Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities
Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities
2014, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Series Editor's Preface, Colin BrockIntroduction: Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities: A Global Overview, Rosarii Griffin (University College Cork, Ireland) and Piaras MacEinri (University College Cork, Ireland)1. Gypsies in the South of England: A Case Study, Juliet McCaffery (University of Sussex, UK)2. Travellers in East Yorkshire: A Case Study, Judith Smith (Minority Ethnic and Traveller Attainment Service, (METAS), UK) and Helen Worrsell (Family and Early Years Learning Officer, UK)3. Travellers and the Irish Education System: Cross-Cultural Communication and Change, Kenny (Independent Researcher, Ireland)4. Multi-dimensional Sámi Education: Educating Indigenous People in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia, Pigga Keskitalo (Sámi University College, Norway) Kaarina Määttä; (University of Lapland, Finland) and Satu Uusiautti (University of Lapland, Finland)5. The Education of Travelling Communities within the EU: A Closer Examination of the Roma Community, Christine O'Hanlon (University of East Anglia, UK)6. Indigenous Groups' Education: A Case Study from North America, Lorenzo Cherubini (Brock University, Canada)7. Education and 'Orang Asli' in Malaysia: A Country Case Study, Hema Letchamanan (Taylor's University, Malaysia) and Firdaus Ramli (Taylor's University, Malaysia)8. The Education of Nomadic Peoples in Afghanistan: Current Issues, Future Prospects, Caroline Dyer (University of Leeds, UK) and Rafat Nabi (University of Cambridge, UK)9. Intercultural Education, Self-Determination and Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon Basin, Sheila Aikman (University of East Anglia, UK)Index.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Series
Education as a humanitarian response

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Dewey Decimal Class
371.829
Library of Congress
LC3715 .E378 2014, LC3715

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xiv, 202 pages
Number of pages
202

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OL31183978M
ISBN 13
9781472513144, 9781472513601
LCCN
2013048782

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