The Roma Population in Romania and its Education
The Roma Population in Romania and its Education

Summary/Abstract: The analysis is focused on the educational system of the Roma minority, which is only a small part of the larger issue of the Roma population. Romania is the country with the highest number of Roma people in Europe. The international institutions estimate the number of Roma in Romania to be somewhere inbetween 1 and 1.5 million persons, while Roma activists agree on a figure of 2.5 to 3 million persons. The Roma origin has been one of the most controversial problems in the history of peoples but the Indian origin theory has come into general use. In history, they had a bad social and material status. Also in the period of the communist regime in Romania, the Roma minority wasn’t officially recognized as a minority group. After the fall of communism in 1989, the process of transition towards market economy has equally affected all the Romanians but especially the Roma minority, which suffers from poverty, social exclusion and the degradation of the educational act. The European answer to these problems was promoting an educational policy meant to encourage multiculturalism and antiracism, as well as implementing intercultural education. Romania is trying to introduce this pattern in its educational system.

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