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This presentation deals with my ethnographical research among Dassikané Roma children and youth, resident in a “nomadic” camp in the suburb of Turin and attending a primary school in the closest suburban area. The participant observation took place in a school during Roma students’ classes and the laboratory class for “nomadic students”. I analysed how the “culture of school” (see Gobbo, 2000) shapes the students’ experiences of schooling and how Roma students have managed to use some features of the institutional setting to maintain their own cultural practices, as well as to develop new cultural code and practices above all with their Roma peers but also with their non-Roma peers, teachers and researchers. I followed the concept of propriospective (see Goodenough, 1981 and Wolcott, 2004) as key to interpret the subjects strategies, actions, behaviours and feelings. The use of this concept is an innovative feature in cultural anthropology and in anthropology of education. In the final part of my ethnographic test, I described six case studies (see Wolcott, 2004). The attention for the individual subject allows to delve into personal histories and realities of Roma children and youth, to trace deeply and with more precision to the description of Roma students target group. As well, the focus on case studies offers the possibility to better describe and show the complexity of what was observed. My research was possible thanks to the experimentation of European Comenius Project INSETRom in the school observed (see Symeou, Luciak and Gobbo, 2009). Therefore, my fieldwork is important for a comparative perspective on relationships between main societies and Roma minorities and the consequent experience of schooling for the minority. This comparative focus is referred not only to the seven countries, which participated to the Project, but also to a more global perspective, considering the asymmetric power relationships between minorities and the main societies, e. g. the experiences for native communities in U.S.A. and Canada with main societies and school institutions (see Dick Zatta, 1988 and Wolcott, 2004).
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