Description
The project is based on the strong effect of personal meeting and personal handing over, the project thus brings to basic schools Romani personalities, Romani culture and history. Twelve month long free-time activities lead by Romani professionals will support personal development of 80 children at 4 basic schools in ethnic mixed groups and will especially support the development of healthy Roma identity of Romani children. 7 seminars for at least 70 teachers will strengthen and develop their abilities to integrate Romani children in class teams and also integrate Romani history and culture into curriculum. This will be supported by reprinting the successful didactic textbook Druhá směna (The second shift will be on how to use Romani history and literature in the basic schools’ curriculum). As a result of the project, joined schools will experience more respect and cooperation among children and teachers and integration of Roma children will become more easy.
Summary of project results
The project showed the public and parents in Prague, Dolní Podluží and Ostrava that the Czech and Romani children are able to consistently work together and get results. Roma children easily lose the motivation to continue their studies. Action Roma mentors, who represent a suitable model, can during regular leisuretime meetings to find out, that the study makes sense. Roma pupils were actively interested in the possibilities of the future education directly by speaking with their Roma trainers. Their example has undoubtedly inspired them, we hope during next years.Czech teachers now have a methodological guide, which can also be used directly as a textbook (exercises, image attachments, poems and short stories, etc.), For their own use in Czech language lessons, history, aesthetic education, environmental education and others. Some were familiarized directly during the seminars with options for using the handbook to attract Romani pupils, most of whom are otherwise not very motivated to study. Czech children can be informed about Roma in an unobtrusive way through the manual’s organic inclusion of immediately usable excerpts of works of Romani literature, etc. We have almost reached the planned number 85 of leisuretime meetings and also the presence of Roma pupils was satisfactory (about 55).
Summary of bilateral results