Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities [Hardcover]

Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communitiesprovides a thorough examination of up-to-date case studies of educational provision to travelling communities and indigenous people in their homelands 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. For such groups, this results in early school leaving, high school drop-out rates, low school attendance and low success rates. Indeed, indigenous, traveling and nomadic groups often begin their working life at an early age and often experience difficulties 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. A comparative examination of the issues is enabled through the global case studies including the Roma people in Europe; indigenous groups in Malaysia; the Gypsies of England; the Travellers of Ireland; the Sami nomadic people of Scandinavia and Russia as well as the Amazonian Indians of Latin America.

Rosarii Griffinis Director of the Centre for Global Development through Education, Immaculate College, Ireland.

Series Editor's Preface,Colin Brock
Introduction: Educational in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities: A Global Overview,Rosarii Griffin (University College Cork, Ireland) and Piaras MacEinri (University College Cork, Ireland)
1.Cross-Cultural Communication and Change: Travellers and Roma in the Irish Education System,Dr M?ir?n Kenny (Education Consultant, Ireland)
2.Education as Cultural Conflict: The Case of English Gypsies in the South of England,Dr Juliet McCaffery (University of Sussex, UK)
3.A Case Study of Gypsy Travellers in the Eal³,