Our work in education[editar]
Since the creation of the FSG, one of its priorities, and hence strategic line of action, has been the educational promotion of the Roma community at all levels and at all ages, placing a particular emphasis on the most difficult stages of formal schooling, including secondary education.
To this purpose, the FSG implements actions in collaboration with various administrations and organisations of local, provincial or regional scope both with the Spanish or immigrant Roma population, the latter coming primarily from Eastern Europe.
Workshop on study techniques
The principal lines of action of the FSG in education can be summarised as follows:
- Promote and facilitate the incorporation of Roma boys and girls in Early Childhood Education and Care.
- Promote the educational mainstreaming of the Roma student body in the compulsory stages of schooling.
- Promote the involvement of Roma families in the educational process of their children, and more broadly of the whole educational community.
- Produce basic diagnoses and the continued monitoring of the school situation of the Roma student body through research and studies.
- Development of publications.
- Promote the basic training of Roma adults.
- Provide training, support and technical assistance to professionals of the social and educational fields.
- Develop and participate in actions of an international scope.
- Develop awareness-raising campaigns.
Promociona Classroom, Valencia
Some FSG publications on education (in Spanish)
- Challenges in multicultural contexts. Intercultural competencies and conflict resolution.
- Roma Students in Secondary Education in Spain. A comparative study.
- Teach and learn from the point of view of cultural diversity: Orientations and strategies for education centres
- Education for tolerance and communication among cultures. Material on mutual knowledge, tolerance, and bringing cultures together
- Schools of colours, where do we start?
- Pedagogical box
- Our cultures: programme to work on tolerance and the respect for diversity in compulsory secondary education.
- Book 50 Roma women in Spanish society
Gitanos magazine (in Spanish):
- Gitanos, pensamiento y cultura. Nº56. Dossier Educación (nº5). “Normalización educativa en Primaria. Programa Promociona”
- Gitanos, pensamiento y cultura. Nº 55. Dossier Educación (nº13). “Campaña de sensibilización: “De mayor quiero ser”
- Gitanos, pensamiento y cultura. Nº 34-35. Dossier Educación (nº4). Investigación: El acceso del alumnado gitano a la educación secundaria.
- Gitanos, pensamiento y cultura. Nº 21. Dossier Educación (nº3). Aprender siendo adultos y adultas gitanos
- Gitanos, pensamiento y cultura. Nº 11. Dossier Educación (nº2). Evaluación de la normalización educativa del alumnado gitano en E. Primaria
- Gitanos, pensamiento y cultura. Nº 7-8. Dossier Educación (nº1). El pueblo gitano y la educación
Promoting the educational mainstreaming of the Roma student body in the compulsory stages of education
Promotion of Roma families’ involvement in the educational process
- Informational leaflet
- `Roma Families Get involved´ Methodological Guide The Guide aims to provide guidance for professionals working on the ground to involve Roma families in the educational processes of their children. It includes aspects such as the working phases, strategies, key messages, warnings, and examples of good practices and the profile and competences needed for professionals, among others. For other languages www.https://www.gitanos.org/que-hacemos/areas/international/roma_families_get_involved.html
Basic diagnosis and continued monitoring (In Spanish)
- Evaluation of the educational mainstreaming of Roma pupils in the Primary Education stage Fundación Secretariado Gitano/IFFIE/Instituto de la Mujer (2010)
- Study "Incorporation and trajectory of Roma girlds in compulsory secondary education" Fundación Secretariado Gitano/CIDE (MEC)/ Instituto de la mujer. Madrid (2006)
- School Failure and Early School Leaving in SpainMariano Fernández Enguita, Luis Mena Martínez y Jaime Riviere Gómez. Colección estudios Sociales de La Caixa. (2010)
- Youth and School Failure in SpainDirección: Lorenzo Navarrete (2007). Edición Injuve and online.
Other documents and links of interest
- Ministry of Education, Culture and SportsWebpage of education and informational resources
- Grupo Eleuterio Quintanilla WebsiteWebsite on anti-racist education, with articles and educational resources.
- Intercultural ClassroomWebsite related to Intercultural Education (contains didactic tools).
- Practical guide “Growing as fathers and mothers”Save the Children (2009)
- Awareness-raising projects in education centres (FSG-Asturias)Basic information on an awareness-raising Project developed by the FSG in Asturias
- We learn Romanés. FSG Zaragoza. 2007 Material with basic vocabulary and expressions in Romanes-spanish