ODGOJ I IZOBRAZBA ROMA U HRVATSKOJ
THE EDUCATION OF GYPSIES IN CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: The education of Gypsy children in Croatia has not been organized in the past according to the importance it holds in the process of integration of Gypsies. This means that practical (school) realization as well as theoretical (scientific research) contributions were modest. In the new context of the Croatian state (the past ten years) school and education have become the possible intercultural media in function of the social, cultural and economic promotion of Gypsies (integrative concept, avoidance of assimilation, a means in the process of cultural autonomy of Gypsies…). In the process of conceptualization of the education system for members of the Gypsy national community one should have in mind the socioeconomic, religious, regional and local status and position of Gypsies in Croatia, as well as of particular Gypsy groups. In outlining the specific forms and models of education for Gypsies there have been several scientific research projects in Croatia (Genealogy and transfer of the models of interculturalism; School curriculum and characteristics of Croatian national culture; Social and developmental position of Gypsies in Croatia), as well as experimental verifications on a conceptual and more specific teaching, didactic level. The Summer school of Gypsy children in Croatia, the Gypsy education community and Gypsy pre-school center “Ceferino Jimenez Malla” represent a foundation towards a gradual constitution of elements for a specific school system for Gypsies in Croatia.

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