Educating Gypsy children

Françoise Malique

Pedagogical Advisor

Coordinator of a Socrates European project

How many gypsies ?

• - in France : 280 000/400 000

• - in Europe : 5,3 /10 millions

• - in the world : 15/30 millions

Who are they ?

XVIII° Centurie

GYPSIE WOMAN

Picasso

Rom coming from Poland

First migrationFrom India to Europe

Migration throw Europe

3th migration

Mayflower history

How did they live ?How do they live now in

France ?

XIX th century

Around PARIS

In ASIA

Life Philosophy

• Horizontality

• Romanipe

• Pure and impure notions

• Relations with time and space

• The family

School Education

• 90% illiterate

• 60% under 20 years

The European project

contents

• TRAVELLER CULTURE. S. SPINELLI 17 INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION 22 Analysis of intercultural teaching practices. F. Malique (translation) 24

• WHAT LEARNING MEANS TO A CHILD OF THE 21 ST CENTURY

• Life experiences: what use do we make of them in the educational system? H. Trocme Fabre (summary) 29

contents

• Learning for the individual and in the present H. Trocme Fabre (summary) 32

• Introducing children from an oral culture to writing through a process of dictation by a learner to an expert F. Malique (translation) 38

• TEACHING METHODS – PRACTICAL EXAMPLES

• History and local history (summary) 44 Geography and local geography (summary) 52

• Other subjects (summary) 57 Runaround (translation) 58

remember

• Questions for the adults

• Questions for the pupils– Open the knowledge paradigm– Use the operating question word– Prepare the answer with complexes

sentences

Library

• Journal of the gypsy lore society-ISSN : 0017-6087 - David J. Neweth

• Anne Sutherland : Rom in California

• Sheila Salo : The flight into Mexico

• Michael Stewart : tsigane orality