Introduction

 At Helsinki’s Congress (ECER-2010) and Berlin (2011) we presented a new model of development of culture and education of gypsy’s communities, and to promote the environment to accommodate gypsies (Medina, Domínguez y Medina, 2011) in urban environments.

 The research tries to offer and innovation model and criteria to improve gypsy students’ education, to implement programs of education and research on case studies and individual attention to each personal and family.

 The central question is: does the educational systems and suburban schools respond and are accommodated to gypsy students’ needs and to their Roma culture?

State of the question

Previous research programmes were dedicated to adaptation Gypsy’s communities to the today’s urban social context.

The present programme is dedicated to answering demands of Roma Associations and to the needs of school and methods used by teachers. New ideas, didactic models and interaction strategies are implemented in order to promote a better educational impulse to these communities in collaboration with University Professors, Teachers’ Trainers and member of Roma communities. Characteristic of that programme are:

Educative and scholar support.

Ø  -Emergency and development of Roma culture.

Ø  -Collaboration with Gypsy’s Communities

Ø  Consolidation of Gypsy’s Communities

Ø  Improvement of family’s internal atmosphere able to help children’s study.

The programme tries to train teachers for them to be able of implementing educational programmes accommodated to gypsy students. Contents introduced in such in service training programmes include aspects such as:

  )      Culture and enculturation.

b)      Roma history, culture, language and traditions.

c)      Stereotypes and prejudices.

d)     Teacher-parents relationship and inter-communication.

e)      Intercultural and multicultural education.

f)       Curriculum design and adaption.

Objectives of the research:

Ø  To design programmes fort of gypsy students and families.

Ø  To experiment accommodated programmes.

Ø  To prepare the students and families to respond the challenges of knowledge society.

Ø  To improve the key competences (communicative, mathematical, digital, etc.).

Ø  To maintain Roma culture

Ø  To prepare students for long life learning.

Ø  To evaluate the formative potentiality of the programme to promote integral education of students and families.

The context

Gypsy communities living in the Shantytown borrows of Madrid’s West area.

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