Optimism despite disappointment: Irish traveller parents’ reports of their own school experiences and their views on education

Boyle, Anne; Flynn, Marie; Hanafin, Joan

doi:10.1080/13603116.2018.1530805

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“…Similarly, research shows that Travellers experience lower levels of belonging and higher levels of negative stereotyping, exclusion and bullying specifically as a result of their ethnic identity (Biggart, O'Hare, and Connolly 2013;Bloomer, Hamilton, and Potter 2014;MacNeela 2004, 2008). This racial discrimination, in addition to Traveller parents' previous experiences of schooling, helps to explain high levels of Traveller parental anxiety and Traveller children hiding their ethnic identities form peers (Boyle, Hanafin, and Flynn 2018;Devine, Kenny, and MacNeela 2004). Research shows that 62% of Travellers feel that they had been discriminated against in school (AITHS 2010) and when compared to majority group children, Traveller children (aged 10-17) were more likely to report that they were bullied at school (Department of Children and Youth Affairs 2012).…”

Section: Travellers Prejudice and Interpersonal Racismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, research with second level students, early school leavers and Traveller parents (reflecting on their experiences of education in the 1980s and 1990s) reveals several factors influencing decisions with regard to school completion. Specifically, Travellers identify: discrimination by teachers, bullying and name-calling, peer pressure, feeling isolated, low teacher expectations, and differences between the social and family lives of Traveller and settled children as factors contributing to their decision to leave school early (Bhopal 2018;Boyle, Hanafin, and Flynn 2018;Byrne and Smyth 2010). It is also relevant that research shows that racism perpetuated against Travellers in school contexts is often downplayed or ignored (Bhopal 2018).…”

Section: School Completionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research indicates that Travellers highly value and are immensely proud of their distinct identity and culture (Boyle, Hanafin, and Flynn 2018). In her address to Seanad Éireann, Senator Kelleher argued that the uniqueness of Traveller culture had led to academic interest in disciplines such as anthropology and folklore studies and therefore inclusion of Traveller culture and history in the curriculum would help to recognise and validate Travellers' distinct culture and enable students and teachers to learn about Ireland's diverse cultural heritage (Houses of the Oireachtas 2018).…”

Section: Recognition and Validation Of Travellers' Distinct Culture?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Making the invisible visible: managing tensions around including Traveller culture and history in the curriculum at primary and post-primary levels

Kavanagh

Dupont

2021

Irish Educational Studies

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Section: Travellers Prejudice and Interpersonal Racismmentioning

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Kavanagh

Dupont

2021

Irish Educational Studies

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“…The rich ideological and political education of college students contains the three outlooks education, moral education, legal education, and ideal and belief education ( Boyle et al, 2020 ). The three outlooks include world outlook, outlook on life, and values.…”

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Positive Guidance Effect of Ideological and Political Education Integrated With Mental Health Education on the Negative Emotions of College Students

Gao

Jia

2022

Front. Psychol.

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This exploration aims to solve the problems of imperfect psychological health education system and poor educational effects on college students. Here, ideological and political education is integrated with mental health education to investigate the role of collaborative intervention in guiding college students to resist negative emotions. First, an overview is offered of research on ideological and political education, mental health education, and negative emotions by the literature survey method. Moreover, a comprehensive investigation is also conducted on research objects, through the questionnaire, to understand the current situation of negative emotions of college students. And finally, an intervention experiment is taken on the negative emotions of college students by combining ideological and political education with mental health education. The results show that after 10 weeks of intervention experiment by combining ideological and political education with mental health education, there are significant differences in depression, negative emotions, somatization symptoms, and interpersonal problems between the treatment group and the control group (P < 0.01). Besides, there are significant differences in depression, negative emotions, somatization symptoms, and interpersonal problems between sophomores in the treatment group and the control group (P < 0.01). Moreover, there are significant differences in depression, negative emotions, somatization symptoms, and interpersonal problems between male participants in the treatment group and the control group (P < 0.01). In summary, ideological and political education integrated with mental health education has a positive guidance effect on the negative emotions of college students, greatly improving the negative emotions of the students, helping the students to regulate their emotions, and benefiting their study and life a lot. The purpose of integrating ideological and political education with mental health education is to provide reference for refining the mental health education system of college students and strengthening the positive guidance of negative emotions of college students.

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“…Несмотря на собственный негативный опыт ряд родителей выразили оптимизм в отношении тех образовательных возможностей, которые получают сегодня их дети. Речь идет о дошкольном образовании, и авторы исследования полагают, что здесь важна позиция даже самых небольших этнокультурных групп [10].…”

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Ethnopedagogical practices of preservation and reproduction of the traditional culture of the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North and Siberia (the case of Krasnoyarsk region)

Koptseva¹,

Berezyuk²,

Khrebtov³

2021

P Sci Edu

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Introduction. The relevance of the study is determined by the search for new pedagogical technologies for the formation, preservation and reproduction of traditional cultural values in the socio-cultural space of the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North and Siberia. The social transformation processes experienced today by these nations predetermine the need to change the main pedagogical approaches to preservation of their traditional culture. The purpose of the article is the analysis of modern ethnopedagogical practices aimed at formation of favourable educational environment for children belonging to indigenous minorities of the North and Siberia living in Krasnoyarsk region. Materials and methods: 1) fieldwork in places of compact residence of Dolgans, Selkups, Evenks, 2) quantitative analysis of the content of 14 web resources devoted to the traditional culture of Evenks, Dolgans, Selkups; 3) organisation of 12 semi-structured interviews with experts in the field of education and culture of small-numbered indigenous peoples of the North and Siberia; 4) questioning of 650 Evenks living in Krasnoyarsk region; 5) comparative analysis of the factual survey results. Results. A survey of 7 northern settlements of Krasnoyarsk region inhabited by indigenous minorities of the North and Siberia was carried out; the survey revealed a low degree of native language proficiency among the Evenks in the age group under 19 years old (in 1997, the Evenk language was considered native by 6.7% of the Evenks in this group; in 2017, the Evenk language was not deemed by this group participants to be their native language; in 1997, the Russian language was considered to be the native language by 88.2% of the Evenks aged 10 to 19, in 2017 – by 91.7%). Over the 10 years, the share of Evenks who are fluent in the Evenk language decreased twofold (from 31.1% in 1997 to 15.1% in 2017). The overall expert assessment formed through analysis of 12 semi-structured interviews makes it possible to conclude on the change in the ethnopedagogical practices of the indigenous peoples of the North and Siberia in studying the native languages, in connection with “retirement” of the native language from the practice of everyday communication. All of the 12 experts recorded the shift of the educational practices of the indigenous minorities, as to the study of their native languages, to the similar practice involving the mastery of foreign languages. The overwhelming majority of experts (10 out of 12) believe that the observed efficiency of school education in the North and the Arctic is connected with the development of online education and increased availability of federal educational platforms for schoolchildren of northern settlements. Some of the ethnopedagogical practices are being transferred to cyberspace. The traditional culture of the indigenous minorities of the North and Siberia assumes virtual forms characteristic of the modern informational Internet environment.

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Optimism despite disappointment: Irish traveller parents’ reports of their own school experiences and their views on education

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

Making the invisible visible: managing tensions around including Traveller culture and history in the curriculum at primary and post-primary levels

Making the invisible visible: managing tensions around including Traveller culture and history in the curriculum at primary and post-primary levels

Positive Guidance Effect of Ideological and Political Education Integrated With Mental Health Education on the Negative Emotions of College Students

Ethnopedagogical practices of preservation and reproduction of the traditional culture of the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North and Siberia (the case of Krasnoyarsk region)

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