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Suggested Readings on Roma Education in Europe
(Roma Education Initiative, last update October 13, 2004)


This section provides an extensive bibliography of readings pertinent to the education of Roma children. Contains links to many of the documents if available online.

International/ European Law
Roma Education General
Country-by-country:
  Bulgaria
  Czech Republic
  Croatia
  Finland
  Germany
  Greece
  Hungary
  Italy
Macedonia
  Poland
  Romania
  Serbia and Montenegro
  Montenegro
  Slovakia
  Spain
  UK

International/ European Law

Convention against Discrimination in Education, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation on 14 December 1960

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with Regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, CETS No 164, entry into force 1.12.1999

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, CETS No. 005, entry into force 3 September 1953

Economic and Social Council. The rights to education (Art. 13): 08/12/99. (E/C.12/1999/10, CESCR General comment 13.)

Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, CETS No. 157, entry into force 2 January 1998

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Adopted and opened for signature and ratification by GA resolution 2106 (XX) of 21 December 1965, entry into force 4 January 1969

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General Recommendation IV, Demographic composition of the population (Art. 9), (Eighth session, 1973)

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Definition of discrimination (art. 1, par. 1): 22/03/93. CERD recom. 14

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "Racial segregation and apartheid (Art. 3): 18/08/95. CERD General recom. 19

A. Roma Education General

Acton Thomas, Gypsy Politics and Social Change, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.

Adelantado, Ana Gimenez, The Education of Gypsy Childhood in Europe, http://opre.roma.uji.es

Aloui Petrovska-Beska, Najcevska,Situation Analysis of Roma Women and Children, UNICEF, 1999.

Altheer David, Roma 'apartheid' censured, Times Educational Supplement, 3/15/2002 Issue 4472, p20, 1/3p.

Avoiding the Dependency Trap: the Roma in Central and Eastern Europe, Bratislava: UNDP, 2003.

Balas Bernard, L'enfant tsigane et la langue ecrite. Reflexion sur les fondements d'une pedagogie interculturelle, Toulouse: DESS, Universite de Toulouse, 1984.

Barriers to the Education of Roma in Europe, UN Special Session on Children, Budapest: ERRC, May 8-10, 2002.

Beldea E., ed. Together: Newsletter of the Program Equal Opportunities for Roma Children Through School and School-Related Activities, May 2000, p. 11, 2000.

Byrt Patrick, The Bigger Picture: A Grassroots Campaign for Human Rights, in Bulletin of Good Practice in Popular Education, Issue 6, p. 59, 2002.

Cahn Claude, Chirico, David, Mc Donald Christina, Mohacsi Viktoria, Peric Tatjana and Szekely Agnes, Roma in the Educational Systems of Central and Eastern Europe, in Cahn, Claude, Roma Rights: Race, Justice and Strategies for Equality, New York: International Debate Education Association, 2002, 71-85.

Chirico David, Eva Sobotka and Alan Bancroft, The Czech Republic, in Denied a Future?, London: Save the Children Fun, UK, 2001, pp. 28-55.

Claver Julio Vargas, Jesùs Gòmez Alonso and Grave Kevin O., Why Roma Do Not Like Mainstream Schools: Voices of a People without Territory, in Harvard Educational Review, Winter2003, Vol. 73 Issue 4, p559, 32p.

Cohen Emil, The Roads before Roma Education: Thoughts after a Public Debate, Roma Rights, Number 2 and 3, 2002, pp. 51-52.

Conference Report: The Desegregation of "Romani Schools" A Condition for an Equal Start for Roma, Budapest: OSI (RPP), Sofia, April 27, 2001.

Council of Europe, The Training of Teachers of Gypsy Children, Strasbourg: Council of Europe, Council for Cultural Co-operation, Doc. DECS/ EGT (83) 63. 1984.

Creating Effective Grassroots Alternatives Foundation and NOVIB. Welcome Pupils or a Gypsy Spring. video, 1999.

Emerson Martin, Roma Education in Eastern and Central Europe: some personal reflections, European Journal of Intercultural Studies, 10 (2), 1999, 183-200.

Equal, Examples of "Promising Practices" received from Member States, Version 2: 05/01/2004.

Erich, Renate, Bericht uber die Lerngruppen des Romano Centro in Wien (Report on the learning groups of the Romano Centro in Vienna)
http://www.gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/romani/lern_hilfe/lernhilfe_rc01.de.html

European Roma Rights Center, Roma Rigths 2/2002.

Gheorghe Nicolae and Liegeois Jean-Pierre, Roma/ Gyspies a European minority, London: MRG, 1995.

Hancock, Ian, The pariah Syndrom, Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers, 1987.

Hardi I. and Hardi A., "There is another Way!" Programme in Mc Donald, Ch., Kovacs, J. and Fenyes Cs., The Roma Education Resource Book, 2001, pp. 231-266.

Inter Project: a practical guide to implement intercultural education, Needs Assessment Report, Socrates Comenius 2.1 nº 106223-CP-1-2002-1-ES-COMENIUS-C21, July 2003.

Kontra, M., Language Discrimination in Education and Gypsy Unemployment, in Mc Donald, Ch., Kovacs, J. and Fenyes Cs., The Roma Education Resource Book, Budapest: Institute for Educational Policy, 2001, pp. 317-325.

Laubeova Laura, Inclusive School - Myth or Reality? In Cahn, Claude, Roma Rights: Race, Justice and Strategies for Equality, New York: International Debate Education Association, 2002, 86-95.

Levin Benjamin, Costs and Effects of the Step by step Roma Special Schools Initiatives, In Roma Rights, Number 2 and 3, 2002, pp. 53-65.

Liegeois Jean-Pierre, School Provision for Ethnic Minorities: The Gypsy Paradigm, Hatfield: Herdfordshire University Press, 1998.

Liegeois Jean-Pierre, School Provision for Roma Children: a European Classrooms, European Journal of Intercultural Studies, 10 (2), 1999, 137-150.

Lynn A. Karoly, M. Rebecca Kilburn, James H. Bigelow, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Jill S. Cannon, James R. Chiesa, Assessing Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Intervention Programs: Overview of the Application of the Starting Early, Starting Smart Program 2001, Seattle: Casey Family Programs, Santa Monica: RAND, 2001.

Milosheva, M. and David Kruse, Pakiv: Learning with Roma Communities (Evaluation of the Community Development Facilitators Program of the Pakiv European Roma Fund (2002-2003), Sofia: CREDA Consulting, 2003.

Mc Donald, Ch. and J. Kovacs, Research on Selected Roma Education Programs in Central and Eastern Europe, Final Report, Budapest: OSI, No date.

Medina Noe, et.al. Research on Selected Roma Education Programs in Central and Eastern Europe: Final Report. Budapest, Hungary. Open Society Institute, (2001). www.osi.hu/iep/equity/rerp.html.

Mohacsi, Viktoria, Discriminatory treatment of Roma children in Education: What can be done about it?, Regional Seminar of Experts for Eastern Europe, Implementation of the Programme of Action adopted at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance: An Exchange of Idea on How to Move Forward, Prague: Office of the UNHCHR, 24-26 September, 2003.

Monitoring the EU - Accession Process- Minority Protection (2001), OSI - EU Accesssion Monitoring: Central University Press, Budapest.

Monitoring the EU - Accession Process- Minority Protection (2002), OSI - EU Accesssion Monitoring: Central University Press, Budapest.

O'Malley Brendan, UN calls for action on Roma children, Times Educational Supplement, 11/30/2001 Issue 4457, p18, 1/2p, 1bw.

Pertusati, L., Beyond Segregation or Integration: A Case Study from Effective native American Education, in Cahn Claude., Roma Rights: Race, Justice and Strategies for Equality, New York: IDEA, 2002, p. 96-111.

Racism and xenophobia in the EU Member States: trends, developments and good practice in 2002, Annual Report - Part 2, Vienna: EUMC, 2002.

Reyniers Alain, Solimano, Nicola and Mori, Tiziana, Gypsies: trapped on the fringes of Europe, UNESCO Courier, Jun2000, Vol. 53 Issue 6, p38, 3p, 1bw.

Rich Vera, Gypsies sue over separate school, in Times Educational Supplement, 10/11/2002 Issue 4502, p18, 1/8p.

Ringold, Dena, Mitchell A.. Orenstein and Erika Wilkens, Roma in an Expanding Europe: Breaking the Poverty Cycle (Executive Summary), Washington: World Bank, June 2003.

Ringold, Dena, Mitchell A.. Orenstein and Erika Wilkens, Roma in an Expanding Europe: Breaking the Poverty Cycle (Conference Edition), Washington: World Bank, June 2003

Ringold Dena, Education and the Roma in Central and Eastern Europe: Trends and Challenges, the World Bank, February 2000

Ringold Dena, Roma and the Transition in Central and Eastern Europe: Trends and Challenges, Washington: The International bank for Reconstruction and Development/ the World Bank, NO PUBLISHING DATE.

Ringold Dena, William Martin Tracy, Anne Revenger, Poverty and Ethnicity: A Cross Country Study of Roma Poverty in Central Europe, Washington: Worold Bank, Technical Paper No. 631, 2002.

Roma and the right to education, Roma Rights, Summer 1998.

Roma Participation Program, RPP Reporter: Special Desegregation Issue, August 2002.

Rona Susan and Linda E. Lee, School Success for Roma Children, New York: OSI, 2001.

Santos, M. Cultural Diversity: Equal Oportunities, in MC Donald, Ch., J. Kovacs and F. Csaba, The Roma Education Resource Book, Budapest: Institute for Educational Policy, 2001, pp. 269-283.

Save the Children Fund, Denied a Future? The Right to Education for Roma / Gypsy and Traveller Children in Europe, 2001

School Provision for Gypsy and Traveller children, European Commission, 22.10.1996, COM(96) 495 final, Brussels, 1997

Seleni, Ivan, Post-communist poverty, Sofia: East-West, 2002.

Stigmata: Segregated Schooling of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest: European Roma Rights Center, 2004.

Strengthening Romany Identity, OSI News, Spring 1998.

The Education of Gypsy Children within Europe, New Perspectives for Learning - Briefing Paper 46, Brussels: European Commission, July 2003.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Report on the Situation of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE Area, The Hague: OSCE, High Commissioner on National Minorities, 2000.

Tomova, Ilona, The Gypsies in the transition period, International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, 1995.

Transition of Students: Roma Special Schools Initiative (Year 4 Evaluation, Final Report), February 2004, Budapest: OSI, REI.

UNICEF. Education for All? Regional Monitoring Report No. 5, 1998.

UNESCO IBE (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation - International Bureau of Education), World Data on Education.

Wilson Duncan, Minority Rights in Education, Right to Education Project, 2002.

World Bank, Trends in Education - Access and Financing during the transition in Central and Eastern Europe, Technical paper No 361, 1997.

World Bank, Hidden challenges to education systems in transition economics, Washington: World Bank, Europe and Central Asia Region, Human Development Sector, 2000.

World Bank, Bulgaria, Poverty Assessment, Report No. 24516-BUL. October 29, 2002.

Zehr Mary Ann, Eastern Europe Pressured to Integrate Roma Students, Education Week, 5/29/2002, Vol. 21 Issue 38, p8, 1p, 1c.

Zoon Ina, On the Margins: Roma and Public Service in Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia, New York: Open Society Institute, 2001.

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B. Country-by-country

Bulgaria

Domestic Law/ Policy

Naredba No6 ot 19.08.2002 za obuchenieto na detsa sas spetsialni obrazovatelni potrebnosti ili s hronichni zaboliavaniha, izdadena ot muinistara na obrazovanieto I naukata, obn, DV, br. 83 ot 30.08.2002 (Decree No. 6 of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science on the Education of Children with Special Educational Needs and/or Chronic Diseases. Official Gazette, No 83, 30, 30 August 2002.)

Zakon za narodnata prosveta. (Bulgarian Public Education Act, last amended in December 2003.)

Zakon za zashtita sreshtu diskriminatsijata, Darzhaven vestnik br. 86 ot 30.09.2003. (Bulgarian Protection against Discrimination Act).

Statistical Sources

Natsionalen Statisticheski Institut. Obrazovanieto v Republika Bulgaria za uchebnata 2000/2001, Sofia, 2001.

Natsionalen Statisticheski Institut. Naselenie kam 01.03.2001 po oblasti I etnicheska grupa.

Publications

1999 Regular Report from the Commission on Bulgaria's Progress towards Accession

2000 Regular Report from the Commission on Bulgaria's Progress towards Accession

2001 Regular Report from the Commission on Bulgaria's Progress towards Accession

2002 Regular Report from the Commission on Bulgaria's Progress towards Accession

2003 Regular Report from the Commission on Bulgaria's Progress towards Accession

Denkov Dimitar, Elitza Stanoeva and Vassil Vidinsky, Roma Schools in Bulgaria 2001, Sofia: OSF, 2001.

Expert Analysis of the Level of the Language Skills of Roma Pupils Receiving Instruction Under the Auspices of the Drom Organisation's Project for Equal Access for Roma Children to All Schools in Vidin, Vidin: Drom, 2002.

Gerganov E. and Chr. Kjuchukov in Educational adjustments of Roma in Bulgaria, S., Tilia, 1999.

Kanev Krasimir, The First Steps: An Evaluation of the Non-governmental Desegregation Project in Six Bulgarian Cities, Budapest: OSI, 2003.

Kanev Kassimir, Changing attitudes towards the ethnic minorities in Bulgaria and the Balkans, 1992-97, in Thanasis Sfikas and Christopher Williams, eds. Ethnicity and Nationalism in East Central Europe and the Balkans, Ashgate, Aldershoot, etc. 1999.

Kyuchukov, Hristo, Transformative education for Roma (Gypsy) children: an insider's view, Intercultural Education, Nov2000, Vol. 11 Issue 3, 273-283.

Kyuchukov, Hristo, Teacher-Pupil Interaction in Bulgarian Romani Classrooms, European Journal for Intercultural Studies, 10 (2), 1999, 151-162.

Kyuchukov, Christo, Bulgarian language written speech if Roma pupils in the third-fifth grade., Balkan Foundation - Diversity, 2002.

Kyuchukov, Christo, The Education of the Roma Children - Current State and Problems, in Pedagigika magazine, No. I, 2001.

Marushiakova, E. and Popov V., The Gypsy Minority in Bulgaria, in Mc Donald, Ch., Kovacs, J. and Fenyes Cs., The Roma Education Resource Book, Budapest: Institute for Educational Policy, 2001, pp. 63-106.

Michajlov D., Quantitative Study of the Child Welfare, commisioned by the UNDP, ASA, 2000, http:asa.dir.bg/resumes5.htm;

Millennium Development Goals - Bulgaria, UNDP, Sofia, 2003.

Nunev, Josif, Roma Children and Their Family Environment, Sofia: IMIR, 1998.

Nunev, Josif, Desegregation in the education of the Roma community (social-pedagogical aspects), Sofia: Library of the Sofia University "St. Climent Ohridski".

Nunev, Josif, Analiz na sastoianieto na uchilishtata, v koito se obuchavat romski detsa, In Strategii na obrazovatelnata politika, Ministerstvo na obrazovanieto i naukata, Sofia, 2001.

Nunev, Josif., Analysis of the current situation of schools in which study Roma children, in Perspectives Magazine, special issue, 2002.

Panayotova, Donka and Evgeni Evgeniev, Successful Romani School Desegregation: The Vidim Case, Roma Rights, Number 2 and 3, 2002, pp. 44-50.

Romani Children Denied Enrollment in Bulgarian Schools, in Roma Rights 3-4.

State of the Society, Foundation "Open Society", 2003.

Stigmata: Segregated Schooling of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe,
Budapest: European Roma Rights Centre, 2004.

Tagliabue, John, Bulgaria Opens School Doors for Gypsy Children, New York Times, July 12, 2001.

Tanaka, J. and Mc Donald Ch., Roma in the Educational System of Bulgaria - a problem analysis, in Mc Donald, Ch., Kovacs, J. and Fenyes Cs., The Roma Education Resource Book, pp. 119-161.

The Children in the Institutions, Volume 6: Schools for mentally retarded children, Sofia: Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, December 2002.

Vassileva, S. Things a teacher can't forget - Notes by a Romani teacher in a majority-dominated Bulgarian school. In Roma Rights, Summer, 1998.

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Czech Republic

Domestic Law/ Policy

Metodologický pokyn k zajištení prerazení úspešných žáku zvláštních škol do základních škol c. 28.498/99-24. (Methodological Instruction about the Transfer of Successful Children from Remedial Special Schools to Regular Primary Schools No. 28.498/99-24 of the Czech Ministry of Education.)

Zákon c. 19, ze dne 12. Ledna 2000, kterým se mení zákon c. 29/1984 Sb., o soustave základních škol, stredních a vyšších odborných škol (školský zákon), e znení pozdejších predpisu (Czech Law no 19/2000 Coll. Amending Law on Schools No. 29/1984.)

Council of the Government for National Minorities (CGNM) (2002). Report on the Situation of National Minorities in the Czech Republic in 2002.

Strategie pro zlepšení vzdelávání romských detí verze 2001

Statistical sources

Czech Statistical Office (CSO), Školy a školská zarízení za školní rok 2003/2004, Prague: CSO, 2004

Ústav pro informace ve vzdelávání, Statistická rocenka školství CR 2001/2002, Praha, 2001.

Ceský statistický úrad, Scítání lidu, domu a bytu. Obyvatelsvo podle národnosti a kraju k 1,3,2001.

Publications

A Special Remedy: Roma and Schools for the Mentally Handicapped in the Czech Republic, Budapest: European Roma Rights Center, 1999.

Balabánová, Helena (1999). 'Romské deti v systému ceského základního školství a jejich následná profesionální príprava a uplatnení' in Romové v Ceské republice (Prague: Socioklub), 333-351.

Chitnis, Rajendra, The Roma in Czech Elementary Education: Towards a New Approach, unpublished dissertation for Master's degree, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, 1997.

Closs, A. Proces vzdelávácí inkluze v Ceské republice. Srovnání detí s poruchami ucení a romských detí: pohled "odjinud", In Pedagogika roc. LI, 2001, Praha: Universita Karlova, Pedagogická fakulta.

Comments on the Joint Inclusion Memorandum of Czech Republic,
Budapest: European Roma Rights Centre, 2004.

Conway Laura, Report on the Status of Romani Education in the Czech Republic, Prague: Citizens Solidarity and Tolerance Movement - HOST, March 1996.

Canek, David (1999). Roma and Other Ethnic Minorities in Czech and Slovak Schools: 1945-1990s.

Frištenská, H. and P. Víšek, Závery a doporucení, in Analýza sociálne ekonomické situace romské populace v CR s návrhy na opatrení, Praha: Socioklub, 2004.

Gjuricová, Jitka, Dobré zkušenosti z realizace projektu zamerených na zlepšení situace Romu v Ceské republice, Analýza sociálne ekonomické situace romské populace v Ceské republice s návrhy na opatrení, Víšek, P., Praha: Socioklub, 2003, pp. 369-377.

Historie komunitních center v CR, available [Online]

Hradecná Marie, Právo na vzdelání a pyšní romští asistenti, in Lidská Práva, Praha: Czech Helsinki Committee, 2/ 1999, p. 16

Klíma Petr, PhDr. Psychologické vyšetrení romského dítete v poradenském systému, in Výchovné poradenství, no. 13. November 1997, 5-14.

Laubeova, Laura, Diskuse k projektu Varianty - Interkulturní vzdelávání, 11.10.2003.

Manuál pro romské pedagogické asistenty, [Manual for Romani teaching assistants] Humanitas -Profes, o.p.s.

Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a telovýchovy (MŠMT) (2004a). Analýza soucasné situace vcasné péce v oblasti vzdelávání o deti ze sociokulturne znevýhodnujícího prostredí.

Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a telovýchovy (MŠMT) (2004b). Zpráva o výsledcích programu Podpora romských žáku stredních škol.

Nová Škola (1997). The Romani Education Programme of the New School Foundation, Patrin Web Journal.

Nová Škola (2003a). Podpora integrace Romu v základním vzdelávání, Výzkumná zpráva.

Nová Škola (2003b). Tandem.

Overview of financial contribution for Romani Secondary Social School in Kolin from a budget line Support of projects of integration of Romani community, [Unpublished material of the Council for Roma Community Affairs] 2002.

Partners for Democratic Change International (2003). Co se osvedcilo: Úspešné romské projekty ve strední a východní Evrope (Partners for Democratic Change International: Prague).

Povinná školní docházka cikánské mládeže v CSR v letech 1970-1971, 1972.
Vychovatel - asistent ucitele aneb romský pedagogický asistent v ceské škole, [Pedagogical worker - teaching assistant or Romani teaching assistant in Czech school] Nová škola, o.p.s, 2001

Prípadová studie 1, Modranská základní škola s rozšíreným vyucováním jazyku.

Prípadová studie 2 5.ZS - Most-Rudolice,

Spolupráce s vychovatelem - asistentem ucitele, aneb jak ve škole vytvorit tandem, [Working together with pedagogical worker - teacher assistant, or how crate a tandem in school] Nová škola, o.p.s., 2003

Srb, Vladimír (2003). 'Školní vzdelání obyvatelstva staršího 15 let podle národnosti a scítáni k 1. breznu 2001,' Demografie 45(3), 197-200.

Stigmata: Segregated Schooling of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe,
Budapest: European Roma Rights Centre, 2004.

Syrovátka, Tomáš, Aleš Burjanek, Pavel Navrátil, Jitka Navrátilová, and Jozef Vorobel (2002). The Human Development Challenge of Roma Integration: Romany people in Czech Republic, National Report (Brno: Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University).

Šotolová Eva, Kurz speciální pedagogiky pro romské pedagogické asistenty. [Special Education Course of Teachers Rom Assistants]. Praha, 2001, 9 hod., (2x), 22.3. a 8.11.2001, nepublikovaná prednáška, pro: MŠMT a Humanitas - Profes, o.p.s.

Šotolová Eva, Romové - prístupy ke vzdelání v CR. [Roma - attitudes toward education in the Czech Republic]. PedF1 UK Praha, 2001, 60 min., 21.2.2001, nepublikovaná prednáška, pro: IW FM Centra d'Arras France

Šotolová Eva (prednášející), Romští pedagogictí asistenti ve vzdelávací soustave MŠMT [Teachers Roma Assistants within the Czech education system]. Praha (CR), 2001, 30 min., 13.12.2001, nepublikovaná prednáška, pro: MŠMT a HUMANITAS - PROFES, o.s.p.

Šotolová Eva, Studie o Romech. [Roma Studies]. Praha, 2001, 90 min., 1.3.2001, nepublikovaná prednáška, pro: Program Erasmus.

Šotolová Eva, Vzdelávání Romu. [Roma Education]. 2. rozšír. vyd., Praha, Grada Publishing, 2001, 84 s., ISBN: 80-247-0277-0, monografie.

Švarcová, I.,Vzdelávání detí romského etnika (Pacov), 1999.

The ERRC Legal Strategy to Challenge Racil Segregation and Discrimination in Czech Schools, In Roma Rights 3-4/2002.

Zoon, Ina, On the Margins, Budapest: Open Society Institute, 2001.

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Croatia

Domestic Law/ Policy

Ivankovic, M., Predškolski odgoj i naobrazba u Republici Hrvatskoj u 2004. godini. [Preschool Education in the Republic of Croatia in 2004] Zagreb: The Ministry of Science, Education and Sport, 2004.

Kriteriji za utvrdivanje financijske pomoci za programe nevladinih udruga i ustanova nacionalnih manjina. [Criteria for determining financial help for programs of nongovernmental organizations and institutions of national minorities] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 111/03.

Metodologija pracenja ostvarivanja programa nevladinih udruga i ustanova nacionalnih manjina. [Methodology for monitoring the realization of programs of nongovernmental organizations and institutions of national minorities] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 111/03.

Nacionalni program za Rome [National Program for the Roma] (2003)

Nacionalni program za djelovanje mladih [National Program of Action for Youth] (2002)

Odluka o rasporedu sredstava osiguranih u Državnom proracunu Republike Hrvatske za 2004. godinu [Decision on the distribution of means from the State Budget of the Republic of Croatia for 2004] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 31/04. U razdjelu 020 Vlada Republike Hrvatske, Glavi 21 Aktivnost: 3811: Tekuce donacije u novcu [Section 020 Government of the Republic of Croatia, Heading 21 Activity: 3811: Liquid donations in money], NN [Official Gazette] 57/04

Odluka o izmjenama i dopunama kriterija za utvrdivanje financijske pomoci za programe nevladinih udruga i ustanova nacionalnih manjina. [Decision on changes and amendments of criteria for determining financial help for programs of nongovernmental organizations and institutions of national minorities] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 25/04.

Odluka o kriterijima i mjerilima za utvrdivanje bilancnih prava za financiranje minimalnog financijskog standarda javnih potreba osnovnog školstva u 2004. godini. [Decision on criteria and propositions for determining balance rights for financing the minimal financial standard of public needs of primary education in 2004] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 48/04.

Odluka o kriterijima i mjerilima za utvrdivanje bilancnih prava za financiranje minimalnog financijskog standarda javnih potreba srednjih škola i ucenickih domova u 2004. godini. [Decision on criteria and propositions for determining balance rights for financing the minimal financial standard of public needs of secondary education and dormitories in 2004] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 48/04.

Pravilnik o nacinu raspolaganja sredstvima Državnog proracuna i mjerilima sufinanciranja programa predškolskog odgoja. [Regulation on the manner of dispensing means of the State Budget and the propositions of co-financing of preschool education programs] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 133/97.

Pregled financijske pomoci udrugama i ustanovama nacionalnih manjina iz Državnog proracuna Republike Hrvatske za razdoblje od 2000.-2003. godine [Review of financial help to organizations and institutions of national minorities from the State Budget of the Republic of Croatia for the 2000-2003 period], 2004.

Pregled programa nacionalnih manjina koji su tijekom 2003. godine realizirani uz potporu Ministarstva kulture [Review of national minorities' programs realized in 2003 with the support of the Ministry of Culture], 2004.

Program of Integration of Romany Children in the Educational and School System of the Republic of Croatia (Activities Display). Zagreb: Government of the Republic of Croatia, 1998.

"Projekt hrvatskog odgojno-obrazovnog sustava za 21. Stoljece" [Project of the Croatian education system for the 21st century]

Strategija za razvoj odgojno-obrazovnog sustava u RH [Strategy for the development of the education system in the Republic of Croatia]

Uredba o Uredu za ljudska prava. [Decree on the Office for Human Rights] Narodne novine [Official Gazette] 22/01.

Ustav Republike Hrvatske. [The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 41/01.

Ustavni zakon o pravima nacionalnih manjina. [The Constitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 155/02.

Zakon o odgoju i obrazovanju na jeziku i pismu nacionalnih manjina. [Act on Education in the Language and Scripts of National Minorities] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 51/00.

Zakon o strancima. [Law on foreigners] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 109/03.

Zakon o Popisu stanovništva, kucanstva i stanova 2001. [Act on the Population, Houses and Apartment 2001 Census] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 64/00.

Zakon o predškolskom odgoju i naobrazbi. [Preschool education act] Narodne novine [Official Gazette], 10/97.

Statistical Sources

Statisticki ljetopis Republike Hrvatske [Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Croatia], Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics, 2003.

Publications

Elaboracija istraživanja "Struktura romskih obitelji i poimanje sadržaja roditeljstva u njima" [Elaboration of the research project "The Structure of Roma Families and the Concept of Parenthood in them"] Zagreb: State Institute for the Protection of Family, Maternity and Youth, 2003, unpublished.

Hrvatic, Neven, Odgoj i obrazovanje Roma u Hrvatskoj. [Education of Roma in Croatia] In: Društvena istraživanja, 2000, 9 (2-3), pp. 267-290.

Jakšic, Božidar, Ljudi bez krova - Život izbjeglica i raseljenih Roma sa Kosova u Crnoj Gori. [People without a roof - The life of refugee and displaced Roma from Kosovo in Montenegro] Beograd - Republika, 2002.

Mitovic, Aleksandar, Romi na granicama siromaštva. [Roma at the boarders of poverty] In: Razvitak Roma u Jugoslaviji - Problemi i tendencije. [The development of Roma in Yugoslavia - Problems and tendencies] Beograd - SANU, 1992.

Perotti, Antonio, Pledoaje za interkulturalni odgoj i obrazovanje. [A plea for intercultural education] Zagreb-Educa, 1995.

Plese Branimir, Racial Segregation in Croatian Primary Schools: Romani Students take Legal Action, in Roma Rights, Number 2 and 3, 2002, pp. 129-137.

Posavec, Koraljka; Hrvatic, Neven, Intercultural education and Roma in Croatia. In Intercultural Education, Apr2000, Vol. 11 Issue 1, 7, pp.93-113.

Sucur, Zoran, Romi kao marginalna skupina. [Roma as a marginal group] In: Društvena istraživanja. [Social research] 9 (2-3), 2000, pp. 221-27.

Štambuk, Maja, Romi u društvenom prostoru Hrvatske. [Roma in Croatian social space] In: Društvena istraživanja. [Social research] 9 (2-3), 2000, pp. 197-210.

UNDP, Human Development Report - Croatia, Zagreb: UNDP Croatia and the Economic Institute in Zagreb, 2003.

World Bank, Croatia: Economic Vulnerability and Welfare Study. Volume I and Volume II. Document of the World Bank. Washington D.C.: World Bank, 2000.


Finland

Publications

National Board of Education, Romany Education Unit, Education for Romanies in Finland, in Mc Donald, Ch., Kovacs, J. and Fenyes Cs., The Roma Education Resource Book, pp. 107-117.

Germany

Publications

Bremer Volkshochschule/ Sinti HausBremen, L'elaboration et la mise en oeuvre d'un curriculum adaptable relative a l'alphabesisation des Sinti ainsi que l'elaboration et la realisation d'un programme deformation professionnelle specifiquemnet adapte aux Sinti, Final report to European Social Fund by Project EP 200/80, 1983

Ortmeyer Christoph, Elke Peters and Daniel Strauss, Antiziganismus: Geschichte und Gegenwart deutscher Sinti und Roma, Wiesbaden: Hessisches Landesinstitut fur Pedagogik.

 

Greece

Publications

Cleaning Operations: Excluding Roma in Greece, Budapest: ERRC, 2003.

Nakajo-Widder, O., Greece, in Denied a Future?, London: Save the Children Fund, UK, 2001, pp. 74-107.

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Hungary

Domestic Law/Policy

1993 évi LXXIX. Törvény a közoktatásról (Hungarian Public Education Act.)

2003. évi CXXV. Törvény az egzenlobánásmódról és az esélyegzenloség elomozditásáról (Hungarian Act on Equal Treatment and the Furtherance of Equality of Opportunities.)

14/1994. VI. 24 MKM rendelet a képzési kötelezettségrol és a pedagógiai szakszolgálatokról
(Hungarian Ministry of Education Decree 14/1994 (VI.24).)

32/1997, (XI.5.) MKM rendélet a Nemzeti, etnikai kisebbség óvodai nevelésének iránzelve és a nemzeti, etnikai kisebbség iskolai oktatésénak irénzelve kiadásáról. (Hungarian Ministry of Education Decree on the issuance of the guideline on the educaiton of children of national and ethnic minoritie sin kindergarten and the guideline on the education of members of national and ethnic minorities in school.)

Decree OM 57/ 2002 (XI 18) of the Minister of Education

Tudományszervezési és Informatikai Intézet, Cigány tanulók az alsó- és középfokú oktatási intézményekben (1981/82. tanév) [Gipsy pupils in the elementary schools schoolyear 1981/82] Budapest: Tudományszervezési és Informatikai Intézet, 1982.

Tudományszervezési és Informatikai Intézet, Cigány tanulók az alsó- és középfokú oktatási intézményekben (1985/86. tanév) [Gipsy pupils in the elementary schools schoolyear 1985/86], Budapest: Tudományszervezési és Informatikai Intézet, 1986.

Statistical Sources

Népszámlálás 2001, Kozponti sztatisztikai hivatal, 2002.

Publications

Aáry-Tamás L, A Kisebbségi Ombudsman jelentése a kisebbségek oktatásának átfogó vizsgálatáról (Report of the Minority Ombudsman about the comprehensive research of minority education), Budapest: Kaltenbach Jeno, Nemzeti és Etnikai Kisebbségi Jogok Országgyulési Biztosa, 1998.

Agovino Theresa, Hungarian Educators Try to Get Gypsies Into the Mainstream--and Into College, in Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/18/2000, Vol. 46 Issue 24, pA68.

Alternative Schools and Roma Education: A Review of Alternative Secondary school models for the education of Roma children in Hungary, Budapest: World Bank Regional office, NO PUBLICATION DATE.

Andor, Miklos, Ciganyvizsgalatok, Budapest: Muvelodesi Kozpont, 1985.

Bábosik I., A cigány tanulók oktatási-nevelési kirekesztodésének okai és a kirekesztés megelozésének lehetoségei (The reasons of the exclusion of Roma pupils and the possibilities protecting the exclusion) Romapedagógia -Pedagógiai tanulmányok ( 31-35. p) Budapest: ELTE BTK Neveléstudományi Tanszék & Pro Educatione Gentis Hungariae Alapítvány, 1999.

Babusik Ferenc: Késoi kezdés, lemorzsolódás - cigány fiatalok az általános iskolában, In: Új Pedagógiai Szemle, 2003/10

Babusik, Ferenc, Survey of Elementary Schools Educating Romani Children, Delphoi Consulting, Budapest, 2000.

Babus E., Gati Z. and Meszaros A., A ciganysag helyzete egy magyar faluban, in Szocialpolotokai Ertesito 2, 1984, pp. 80-126.

Balogh Miklós, Drahos Péter, Péteri Gábor: Fenntartható-e a közoktatás? Hatékonysági szempontok érvényesítése a közoktatásban, Az Oktatáspolitkai Elemzések Központja nyilvános közpolitikai elemzése, Oszágos Közoktatási Intézet, 2004

Ban Gabor and Gabor Pogany, A magyarorszagi ciganysag helyzeterol, Budapest, Munkaugyi Miniszterium, Stencilezett szoveg, 1957.

Csalog Zsuzsa, Kilenc Cigany, Budapest: Kozmosz, 1976.

Csalog Zsuzsa, Ciganyfalu Baranyaban - Jegyzetek a ciganysag helyzeterol, in Kritika, 10, 1979.

Csalog Zsuzsa, Jegyzetek a ciganysag tamogatasanak kerdeseirol, in Szocialpolitikai Ertesito, 2, 1984, pp. 36-79.

Csapó Beno: Az iskolai osztályok közötti különbségek és az oktatási rendszer demokratizálása, In: Iskolakultúra. 2003/8

Demszky Gabor, "Cs" in Kritika 10, 1980, pp. 18-21.

Driel Barry van, The Gandhi Secondary School: an experiment in Roma Education, European Journal of Intercultural Studies, 10 (2), 1999, 173-182.

Egyetemi Számítóközpont, Cigány tanulók az általános iskolában ( 1977/78. tanév). (Gipsy pupils in the elementary schools (school year 1977/78) Budapest: Egyetemi Számítóközpont, 1978.

Esélyteremtés az óvodától a diplomáig, OM Sajtóiroda, 23. September 2003

Forray K. Az iskola és a cigány család ellentétei. (Opposition between schools and Roma families). In Kritika, 7, 1997.

Girán J., Kardos, L. A cigány gyerekek iskolai sikertelenségének háttere (What is behind Gypsy children's failure at school). In Az Iskolakultúra, 10, 1997.

Guide on the "developmental program of short vocational training schools"

Hablicsek László: Kísérlet a roma népesség eloreszámítására 2050-ig, In: Horváth, Landau, Szalai (eds): Cigánynak születni, tanulmányok, dokumentumok, Új Mandátum, Budapest 2000.

Havas, Gábor, The revised program of Romaversitas, Budapest, January 5, 2004.

Havas Gábor, Kemény Istvánm Liskó Ilona: Szegregáció a cigánygyermekek oktatásában, Bp., 2001

Havas Gábor, Kemény István, Liskó Ilona: Cigány gyerekek az általános iskolában, Oktatáskutató Intézet, Új Mandátum Kiadó, 2002

Hegyesine Orsos Eva, Bohn Katalin, Fleck Gabor and Imre Anna, Modell Programok koezepiskolas Roma Fiatalok Koereben, Villagbank Magyarorszagi Regionalis kepviselet, NGO Tanulmayok, 3. szam, NO DATE.

Hétszeres forrás felnottképzésre, Magyarország.hu, 8. February 2004.

Kállai Erno, Törzsök Erika: Cigánynak lenni Magyarországon, Report 2000. Európai Összehasonlító Kisebbségkuatások Programiroda, Budapest 2000.

Kemény István. A Romák és az iskola (Roma and School), In Education, 1, 1996.

Kemény István. Beszámoló a magyarországi cigányok helyzetével foglalkozó, 1971-ben végzett kutatásról. (Report on a survey of Gypsies in Hungary conducted in 1971) Budapest, 1976.

Kemény István - Liskó, Ilona - Havas, Gábor, Report of schools in the school year 1999-2000, 2001.

Kemény István, Janky Béla: National Roma Research of 2003.

Kende Anna: Együtt vagy külön? A szegregált iskolarendszer és a speciális oktatási szükségletek megállapításának problémái, In: Iskolakultúra, 2004/1.

Kertesi Gábor, Roma children in schools, Roma adults on the labour market. Budapest: 1st edition of the Közgazdasági Szemle, 1995.

Kertesi Gábor. & Kézdi, Gábor., Szakértoi jelentés egy országos cigány középiskolai kollégiumi és tehetséggondozó hálózat tervéhez (Experimental report to the plan about a national Gipsy secondary boarding school and talent welfare system) Budapest: MKM Etnikai és Nemzetiségi Foosztálya, 1995.

Kertesi Gábor., Kézdi, G. Cigány tanulók az általános iskolában (Gypsy students in elementary school). in Educatio Füzetek, 3, 1996.

Kertesi Gábor. Cigány gyerekek az iskolában, cigány felnõttek a munkaerõpiacon (Gypsy children at school, adult Gypsies in the labour market), in Közgazdasági Szemle, January, 1995.

Kocze, A., Havas G., Daroczi A., Romaversitas Invisible College, Budapest: Romaversitas Invisible College, No publication date.

Ladanyi, Janos, Paterns of Residential Segregation and the Gypsy Minority in Budapest, In International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Vol. 17, No. 1, 1993.

Lazar, Péter. The pedagogy of KEDVES - house: The outlines of a pedagogic trend presented in conversation and subject pictures, in Mc Donald, Ch., Kovacs, J. and Fenyes Cs., The Roma Education Resource Book, 2001, pp. 189-215.

Liskó Ilona: A hátrányos helyzetu tanulók oktatásának minosége, Új Pedagógiai Szemle, 2002/11.

Mayer József: "Kémiát és fizikát oktatni szakiskolásoknak, az fából vaskarika!" Hátrányos helyzetu tanulók a szakiskolákban, Új Pedagógiai Szemle, 2003/10.

Mezey B. (szerk.), A magyarországi cigánykérdés dokumentumokban, 1422-1985, Budapest: Kossuth, 1986.

Mohacsi, Viktoria, Discriminatory treatment of Roma children in Education: What can be done about it?, Regional Seminar of Experts for Eastern Europe, Implementation of the Programmeme of Action adopted at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance: An Exchange of Idea on How to Move Forward, Prague: Office of the UNHCHR, 24-26 September, 2003.

Muvelodésügyi Minisztérium Statisztikai Osztály, Cigány tanulók az általános iskolában (1970/71. tanév). [Gipsy pupils in the elementary schools, schoolyear 1970/71], Budapest: Muvelodésügyi Minisztérium Statisztikai Osztály, 1971.

Pik Katalin Roma children and special schools, in Educatio, summer edition pages, 1999, 297-311.

Pik Katalin, A cigány gyerekek és az óvoda esete In: Esély 2000/6.

Private Schools in Hungary Declared Unlawful, in Roma Rights 3-4/2002.

Radó Péter, Report about the education of Romani students living in Hungary. unpublished paper, 1997.

Radó Péter, A kisebbségi oktatás fejlesztése (The development of minority education) Új Katedra Budapest. 1995.

Radó Péter, A leszakadó, hátrányos helyzetu társdalmi csoportok oktatásának, képzésének lehetoségei a tudásalapú társadalomban.

Rado, Peter, Roma Education Policies in Hungary, in Mc Donald, Ch., Kovacs, J. and Fenyes Cs., The Roma Education Resource Book, Budapest: Institute for Educational Policy, 2001, pp. 43-61.

Radó Péter, A Humán Eroforrás Fejlesztési Operatív Program (HEFOP) értékelése a roma tanulók oktatásának fejlesztése szempontjából, IFM Humán Eroforrás Háttértanulmányok, TÁRKI, Budapest, March 2003.

Réger Zita, Cigány gyerekek nyelvi problémái és iskolai esélyei (Gipsy children's Language problems and chanceis in schools) Iskolakultúra Budapest: Pécsi Tudományegyetem, 1997.

Réger Zita, Cigány osztaly, "vegyes" osztály - a tények tükrében, in Váloság 8, 1978, pp. 77-88

Réger Zita, A cigányság helyzetének nyelvi és iskolai vonakozásai - Álláspontok és viták, in Szociálpolitikai Értesíto 2, 1984, pp. 140-173.

Report on the Activities of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities, 2000.

Rigó Rozália, Experiences in the institutes working with Roma children, Iskolakultúra, 5th edition, 1995, pp. 89-93.

Rozgonyi Krisztina, A kisebbségi oktatás támogatási rendszere (The support system of the minority education) Budapest: Expanzió Humán Tanácsadó, 1997.

Setényi János, Felzárkóztató programok az alapfokú oktatásban (Gaining programs in the elementary education) Regio (2 edition) Budapest, 1996.

Stigmata: Segregated Schooling of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe,
Budapest: European Roma Rights Centre, 2004, www.errc.org

Szekelyi Maria, Csepeli Gyorgy and Orkeny Antal, Ambitious education: the role of family, school and friends in the development of successful Romany life courses, in Romani Studies, Jun2003, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p53, 20p.

Szoke, Judit. The Jozsefvaros Day School, in Mc Donald, Ch., Kovacs, J. and Fenyes Cs., The Roma Education Resource Book, 2001, pp. 173-188.

Tomasz Gábor: Felzárkóztató oktatás ma, vizsgálati beszámoló, Nemzeti Szakképzési Intézet, 2004.

Vámos Ágnes, Kisebbségi Oktatás, cigány tanulók oktatása [Minority Education, Gipsy pupil's education], Budapest: ELTE BTK Neveléstudományi Tanszék & Pro Educatione Gentis Hungariae Alapítvány, 1999, pp.19-31.

Van Driel, B. V., The Gandhi Secondary School: An experiment in Roma Education, in Mc Donald, Ch., Kovacs, J. and Fenyes Cs., The Roma Education Resource Book, 2001, pp. 217-229.

Vaneeta D'Andrea, Review of Romaversitas - Budapest: 2003, Critical Change Consultants for higher education, Budapest: OSI, July 8, 2003.

Varga Júlia Az oktatás megtérülése és finanszírozása Magyarországon [The refundation and finance of the education in Hungary] Budapest: Budapesti Közgazdaságtudományi Egyetem emberi eroforrások tanszéke, 1994.

Zachár László: A felnottképzés rendszere és fobb mutatói

Zolnay János: Szakítópróbák, A roma tanulók közoktatási integrációjának esélyei, manuscript, 2004.

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Italy

Publications

Gomes, Ana-Maria, Gypsy Children and the Italian School System: a closer look, in European Journal of Intercultural Studies, 10 (2), 1999, pp. 163-172.

 

Macedonia

Domestic Law/ Policy

Vlada na R.M., Nacionalna strategija za namaluvawe na siroma{tijata vo RM, Profili na siromantija, 2002.

Publications

Lj. M. Demir and F. Demir, E Roma, 2000.

Demirovski Martin, Roma in the Stredorek Settlement, in Managing Multiethnic Local Communities in the countries of the Former Yugoslavia, Budapest: OSI, 2001, pp. 157-162.

Friedman Victor, Educational Language Rights and Romani Participation in Macedonian Education, ERIC document ED 428 021, 1998.

Izveshtaj od Workd Bank Konferencijata 17-18 July, 2003, DROM, Kumanovo, 2003.

Lakinska - Popovska, D. Vulnerability of Roma children in the Municipality of Shuto Orizari. United Nations Children's Fund and the World Bank, 2000.

Lakinska - Popovska, D. -2. Analysis of 'The Scope of Roma Pupils in Primary Schools in Republic of Macedonia, unpublished document, 2000.

Najcevska Mirjana, Bilingualism in a Kumanovo Kindergarten, in Nenad Dimitrijevic (ed.), Managing Multiethnic Local Communities in the countries of the Former Yugoslavia, Budapest: OSI, 2001, pp. 87-102.

Tanaka Jennifer, Roma in the Educational System of Macedonia: A Problem Analysis. Institute for Educational Policy, OSI-Budapest, publication forthcoming, 2000.

 

Poland

Publications

Mirga Andrzej, Addressing the Challenges of Roma Children's Education in Poland - Past and Current Trends and Possible Solutions, OSCE, 2001

The Limits of Solidarity: Roma in Poland After 1989, Budapest: ERRC, 2002.

 

Romania

Domestic Law/ Policy

Dr. Barzea, Cesar, The reform of education in Romania - Institute for Educational Sciences - Ministry of Education, Conditions and prospects, Bucharest, 1993.

Lege nr. 84 din 24 iulie 1995. Lega înv ata mâantului (Romanian Education Act 84/ 1995.).

Ministerul Educatiei Nationale, Directia Generala a Invatamantului pentru Minoritatile Nationale, Ethosul invatamantului pentru minoritatile nationale din Romania (The ethos of the education for national minorities), Studium Servicii, Cluj-Napoca, 2000.

Ministerul Educatiei, Directia Generala a Invatamantului pentru Minoritatile Nationale, Strategia privind invatamantul rom (Strategy for Roma education).

Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, Institute for Education Sciences, Institute for the Research of Life Quality, UNICEF, Participation to Education of Romani Children, Bucharest, 2002.

Publications

Achim, Viorel, Tihanii in Istoria Romaniei, Buchuresti: Editura Enciclopedica, 1998.

Aven Amentza, Istoria romilor din Romania [The history of Roma from Romania], Editura Centrului romilor pentru politici publice "Aven Amentza", Bucuresti, 1993.

Beck P. and Gheorghe N., From Slavery to Co-inhabiting nationality: The Political Economy of Romanian Gypsies, Paper presented to the Symposium on he Social Anthropology of Europe I.U.A.E.S. Interongress, Amsterdam, 1981.

Burtea, Vasile, Marginalizare istorica si cooperare sociala in cazul populatiei de romi [Historical exclusion and social co-operation in the case of Roma population] in Revista de Cercetari Sociale, nr. 3, IMAS SA, Bucuresti, 1996.

Cace, Sorin; Bleahu, Ana; Costin Sima, Dana; Manole, Alina; Surdu, Mihai, Copiii romi din Romania [Rroma children in Romania], Organizatia "Salvati Copiii", Bucuresti, 1999.

Cace, Sorin; Costin, Sima, Dana; Stanescu, Mircea; Surdu, Mihai, Studiu de caz privind problemele sociale ale comunitatii romilor din comuna Calvini - jud. Buzau (Case study regarding the social problems of Roma community from Calvini - Buzau County) in Than Romano - Studii despre romi, nr 4-5, Editura Centrului romilor pentru politici publice "Aven Amentza", Bucuresti, 2000.

Costin Sima, Dana, Copiii romi intre marginalizare si integrare (Rroma children between marginalisation and ignoring) in Mihailescu, Ioan (coord.), Un deceniu de tranzitie - situatia copilului si a familiei in Romania (A decade of transition - the situation of child and family in Romania), UNICEF, Bucuresti, 2000.

Culic, Irina; Horvath, Istvan; Lazar, Marius, Ethnobarometer - Interethnic Relations in Romania, Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center, Risoprint, Cluj-Napoca, 2000.

Eurydice European Network, The Structure of the Education System in Romania, 1997.

Destroying Ethnic Identity: the persecution of Gypsies in Romania, Helsinki Watch, 1991.

Grigore, Delia, Rom anipen-ul (rromani dharma) si mistica familiei. Familia traditionala in comunitatile de romi din arealul romanesc and Family Mystique. Traditional Family in Roma Community from Romanian Region), MINIPRINT, Bucuresti.

Institute for Quality of Live, Indicators regarding roma comunities in Romania, Ed. Expert, Bucuresti, 2002.

Ionescu, Mariea; Cace, Sorin, Practici pozitive in comunitatile de rom; English version: Best practicies in Roma communities, Agency for community development "Together", 2000

Laudatu, Ecaterina, Protectia drepturilor copilului [Protection of the child right] - Raport Special, Ombudsman Institution, Bucharest, 2000.

Merfea, Mihai, Integrarea sociala a romilor (Social integration of Roma), Barsa, Brasov, 1991.

Mc Donald Christina, Roma in the Romanian Educational System: barriers and leaps of faith, in European Journal of Intercultural Studies, 10 (2), 1999, pp. 183-200.

Murvai, Laszlo, Minorities and Education 2000 - 2001 -school year, Ministry of Public Information, Bucharest: Minstry of Education and Research, 2001.

Preda, Marian, Grupurile sociale excluse/ignorate de politicile sociale in Romania (Excluded/ignored social groups by social policy in Romania) in Zamfir, Catalin; Zamfir, Elena (coord.), Politici sociale in Romania (Social Policy in Romania), Editura Expert, Bucuresti, 1999

Remmel, F., Die Roma Romanien: Volk ohne Hinterland, Wien: Picus, 1993.

Save the Children Romania. Roma children in Romania, Research Report. Bucharest: Save the Children, 1998.

State of Impunity: Human Rights Abuse of Roma in Romania, Budapest: ERRC, 2001.

Sudden Rage at Dawn: violence against Roma in Romania, Budapest: ERRC, 1996.

Surdu, Mihai, Education Policy for the Gypsy (Roma) Population in Romania, Research Support Scheme, Sociological Institute, Bucharest, 2000.

Surdu, Mihai, The Quality of Education in Romanian Schools with High Percentage of Romani Pupils, Roma Rights 3-4/ 2002, http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/noteb1.shtml.

Temple, Charles, "Life Took Me Elsewhere" The Roma Tutoring Project in Romania, in Mc Donald, Ch., Kovacs, J. and Fenyes Cs., The Roma Education Resource Book, 2001, pp. 165-172.

The Romanian law on Education: a critical approach from the viewpoint of minorities, Minority Protection Association, Minority Protection Series 2, 1996.

Zamfir Elena and Zamfir C. Children at Risk in Romania: Problems Old and New. Florence: Unicef Child Development Center, 1996.

Zamfir, Elena and Preda, Marian (coord.), Diagnoza problemelor sociale comunitare. Studii de caz [Diagnosis of community social problems. Case studies], Editura Expert, Bucuresti, 2000.

Zamfir, Catalin; Zamfir, Elena (coord.); Burtea, Vasile; Gheorghe, Viorel; Marginean, Ioan; Potolea, Dan; Preda, Marian; Voinea, Maria, Tiganii intre ignorare si ingrijorare (Gypsies between ignoring and disregard), Alternative, Bucuresti, 1993.

Zamfir, Elena; Zamfir, Catalin (coord.), Populatia Roma. Situatia socio-economica si coordonatele unui program de suport (Rroma population. Socio-economic situation and co-ordinates of a support program), Centrul de Informare si Documentare Economica, Bucuresti, 1993.

Zamfir, Elena; Zamfir, Catalin, Children at risk in Romania: Problems old and new, UNICEF, International Child Development Centre, Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic Policy Series, No.56, Florence, 1996.

 

Serbia and Montenegro

Domestic Law/ Policy

Serbia and Montenegro, Draft Strategy for the Integration of the Roma, Beograd: Ministry of Human Rights and Minority Rights: Serbia and Montenegro, 2002.

Publications

ERRC & UN OHCHR, Memorandum: The Protection of Roma Rights in SaM, 2003.

UNICEF Belgrade, Comprehensive Analysis of Primary Education in FRY, 2001.

UNICEF Belgrade, The Many Faces of Poverty, Research on Child Poverty in Serbia, Belgrade, 2004.

Oxfam GB, Belgrade Office, Roma Health, Final Report, 2003.

Humanitarian Law Center, Report Roma in Serbia, Belgrade, 2003.

UNDP, The Situation of Roma in SaM Compared to Roma in Central and Eastern Europe.

Roma Information Center, Report from Regional Conference of Roma NGOs, Kragujevac, 2003.

Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Almanac of presentations and reports Educational Policy for National Communities, Belgrade, 2002.

Kocic Rakocevic Nataša and Miljevic Andelka, Roma and Education - Between the Needs, Wishes and Possibilities, Belgrade, 2003.

Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, Almanac of reports from the scientific meeting: Development of Roma in Yugoslavia - Problems and Tendencies, Belgrade, 1992.

Božídar, J. and Goran Bašic, Romany Settlements: Living Conditions and Possibilities of Integration of the Roma in Serbia, Belgrad: Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, December 30, 2002.

Comprehensive Analysis of Primary Education System in Serbia and Montenegro .- Belgrade: UNICEF, 2001.

Pešic, M. et al.: Preschool Education in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.- Belgrade: Catholic Relief Services, 2001.

 

Montenegro

Domestic Law/ Policy

Position of the Roma in Montenegro, Podgorica: Government of the Republic of Montenegro, 2003.

The Book of Changes of the Education System of the Republic of Montenegro. Podgorica: Ministry of Education and Science of Montenegro, 2001.

Publications

Ðurovic, G., Roma in Educational System, Podgorica: Magazine "Gradanin" vol.27, November 2003.

Household Survey of Roma, Ashkaelia and Egyptians, Refugees and Internaly Displaced Persons. Podgorica: Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses, 2003.

Interethnical Distance in Montenegro. Podgorica: CEDEM - Center for democracy and human rights in Montenegro, June 2004.

Lutovac, M.: Roma in Montenegro, 2001. Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Montenegro, Podgorica: Government of Montenegro, 2003.

Report on Primary Education for Internally Displaced Children in Montenegro: Emergency Assistance in 1999 in Education, in Iliff, H., Montenegro: Needs Assessment, Budapest: Institute for Educational Policy, February 2000.

Roma Education Initiative Project, Foundation Open Society Institute - Montenegro and Pedagogical Center of Montenegro, Podgorica, 2003.

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Slovakia

Domestic Law/ Policy

Vyhláška MŠMT c. 127/97 Sb.o speciálních materských školách. (Decree No. 127/97 Coll., on Special Schools and Special kindergartens of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.

Ministry of Education, Strategy of Education and Training of Roma Children and Pupils, 2001.

Ministry of Health, Program ozdravenia životného prostredia, zlepšenia hygienických podmienok a prevencie infekcných ochorení u obyvatelov, žijúcich v rómskych osadách, 3998/2002.

Szigeti, L., Slovensko a rómovia - Partnerstvo a spoluúcast, speech by deputy minister of education, May 2, 1999.

Zákon o sústave základných a stredných škôl (školský zákon). (Law No 29/1984 Coll. On primary and secondary schools amended and supplemented by Slovak Law no 229/2000 Coll.

Statistical Sources

Ústav informácií a prognóz školstva. Separát štatistickej rocenky školstva SR 2001, Bratislava, 2001.

Ústav informácií a prognóz školstva, mládeže a telovýchovy, Separát štatistickej rocenky školstva SR 1990, Bratislava, 1990.

Infostat - inštitút informatiky a štatistiky výskumné demografické centrum, Prognóza vývoja školstva SR do roku 2050. Edícia: Akty, Bratislava, November 2002.

Publications

Adamovic K. and P. Kurec, eds. Problem vychovy a vzdelavania ciganskej mladeze, [Problems of raising and education of Gypsy Youth] Bratislava: Psychodiagnosticke a didakticke testy, 1976.

Annual Report on Groups at a Low Social and Cultural Level - Roma settlements - for the year 2001.

Bulir Michal, Skolni dochazka cikanskych deti v letech 1980-1985 [School attendance of gypsy children in 1980-1985], in Demografie, No. 1, 1987, 86-96.

Canek D., Roma and Other Ethnic Minorities in Czech and Slovak Schools (1945 - 1998), unpublished.

Ginter, E. et al., Health status of Romanies (Gypsies) in the Slovak Republic and in the neighboring countries, Bratislavské lekárske listy, vol. 102 (10), 2001, pp. 479-484.

Hušová, M., Interface 7 - Language Barrier, INEKO, Nadácia Milana Šimecku, SGI, RPA, Bratislava 2004.

Hvozdovic, L., Lehoczká, S., Pavlov, I., Skoumalová, V., Šimcíková, E., Celodenné výchovné pôsobenie, MPC Prešov 2003.

Instructions on Pedagogical Organisational Issues for 2003/2004, Ministry of Education, 2003.

Infostat - VDC, Prognóza vývoja rómskeho obyvatelstva v SR do roku 2025, Bratislava, November 2002.

Interim Evaluation Report No. R/SK/JHA/03.044, 10 March 2003, EMS Slovakia, annex 6, pp 68 -69.

Koncoková, Eva, Step by Step to Desegregation of Romany Children in Slovakia, 2002, Unpublished Paper.

Koncoková E., Šimcáková L. and Kriglerová E., Alternativne projekty vzdelávania rómskych žiakov, Vašecka, Michal (ed.), Cacipen pal o Roma, Bratislava: Institut pre verejné otázky, 2002, pp. 725-744.

Koupilova, I. et al., 2001, Health needs of the Roma population in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Social Science &Medicine, vol. 53, pp. 1191 -1204

Kušnieriková N., Prístupy k vzdelaniu Rómov v minulosti, Vašecka, Michal (ed.), Cacipen pal o Roma, Bratislava: Institut pre verejné otázky, 2002, pp. 679-693.

Lawson Tony, Livingston Kay and Mistrik Erich, Teacher training and multiculturalism in a transitional society: the case of the Slovak Republic, in Intercultural Education, Dec 2003, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p409, 13p.

Maczejková, M., Rigová, S., in: Vašecka, M., Cacipen pal o Roma, IVO, Bratislava 2003.

Marušiaková, J., 1988,: "Vztahy medzi skupinami Cigánov", In: Slovenský národopis, Vol. 36, No. 1., pp. 58 - 78.

Metodické centrum Prešov, Vyhodnotenie preiskumu o postavení rómskeho dietata a žiaka vo výchovno-vzdelávacom systéme SR, Prešov 2002.

information material UV-1438/2002 submitted for government review

Partners for Democratic Change Slovakia, Co sa osvedcilo? Výber z rómskych projektov v strednej a východnej Európe, 2003.

Radicová, I., Hic sunt Romales, Bratislava, S.P.A.C.E. 2000.

Repová I. and Harakal M., Tretí sektor a Rómovia, in Vašecka, Michal (ed.), Cacipen pal o Roma, Bratislava: Institut pre verejné otázky, 2002, pp. 313-323.

Rigová S. And Maczejková, M. Vzdelávací systém a Rómovia in Vašecka, Michal (ed.), Cacipen pal o Roma, Bratislava: Institut pre verejné otázky, 2002, pp. 695-724.

Rusnáková, J., Co je nové na "našej" katedre, in: Romano Nevo Lil, 613-615, November 5, 2003.

Sobotka, Eva, 1+1=3: Roma in the Slovak Educational System. In Central Europe Review, 2001a, 3, (2), www.ce-review.org.

Teaching Plans for the 1st-9th Grades of Primary Schools approved by the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic on May 14, 2003, no. 520/2003-41, valid as of September 1, 2003.

Stigmata: Segregated Schooling of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe,
Budapest: European Roma Rights Centre, 2004.

Tomatova Jana, Na vedlajsej kolaji: je proces zaradovania romskych deti do specialnych zakladnych skol znevyhodnujicim cinitelom? [Sidetracked: is the process of placement of Romani children into Special schools a disadvantage factor?] Bratislava: Institut pre dobre spravovanu spolocnost, 2004. http://www.governance.sk/

Valachová, D. et al., Vzdelávanie Rómov, SPN, Bratislava 2002; Kušnieriková, N., Approaches to Educating the Roma in the Past, in: Vašecka, M., Cacipen pal o Roma, IVO, Bratislava 2003.

World Bank, Poverty and Welfare of Roma in the Slovak Republic, The World Bank, Foundation S.P.A.C.E., Ineko, The Open Society Institute, Bratislava 2002.


Spain

Publications

Auxiliadora Sales Ciges and Rafaela Garcia Lopez, Gypsy Children's Schooling and Intercultural Attitudes in Spain, in European Journal of Intercultural Studies, 10 (2), 1999, pp. 207-18.

Auxiliadora Sales Ciges and Rafaela Garcia Lopez, Teacher's Attitudes about the Integration of Roma: the Case of Spain, in European Journal of Intercultural Studies, 10 (2), 1999, 219-32.

Etxeberria, Felix, Education and Roma Children in the Basque Region of Spain, in Intercultural Education, Vol. 13 No. 3, Sep 2002.

Etxeberria, F., New Challenges for Bilingual Education in the Basque Country, in Intercultural Education, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2003.


UK

Publications

Acton Thomas, Educational Policy and Language Use Among English Romanies and Irish Travellers (Tinkers) in England and Wales in Traveller Education, no. 17, London: Romanestan Publications, 1982.

Acton Thomas, Gypsy Education: At the Crossroads in British Journal of Special Education, vol. 12, No. 1, London: National Association for Special Education, 1985.

Acton, Thomas, The Romani language in Educational Work in Acton, Thomas and Kenrick Donald (eds.), Romani Rokkeripen To-Divvus, London: Romanestan Publications, 1984.

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