Educating the Roma: The Struggle for Cultural Autonomy in a Seminomadic Group in Norway
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Resumo: | This paper will discuss the rationale of a group of Norwegian Roma who have resisted the government’s attempts to educate them since the early 1960s. Behind the scenes these Roma claim that a school education is irrelevant for their children yet, when faced with school authorities, they comply. The authorities have used different approaches to promote education for Rom children however, their success is questionable. So what is at stake here? What is wrong with education from the Roma’s point of view and how do the authorities respond? This article opens with a presentation of the history and background of the Norwegian Roma. It then presents the Norwegian system of public primary and lower secondary education and their attempts to accommodate Rom children. It critically examines the concept of education and the unquestioned and self-evident understanding of schooling as a liberating force per se. It further makes use of Bourdieu’s analysis of symbolic capital and habitus and discusses the Roma’s resistance to education and why symbolic capital developed through public school education is not converted to the Rom field. |
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Educating the Roma: The Struggle for Cultural Autonomy in a Seminomadic Group in Norwayeducation; habitus; Norway; resistance; Roma; symbolic capitalThis paper will discuss the rationale of a group of Norwegian Roma who have resisted the government’s attempts to educate them since the early 1960s. Behind the scenes these Roma claim that a school education is irrelevant for their children yet, when faced with school authorities, they comply. The authorities have used different approaches to promote education for Rom children however, their success is questionable. So what is at stake here? What is wrong with education from the Roma’s point of view and how do the authorities respond? This article opens with a presentation of the history and background of the Norwegian Roma. It then presents the Norwegian system of public primary and lower secondary education and their attempts to accommodate Rom children. It critically examines the concept of education and the unquestioned and self-evident understanding of schooling as a liberating force per se. It further makes use of Bourdieu’s analysis of symbolic capital and habitus and discusses the Roma’s resistance to education and why symbolic capital developed through public school education is not converted to the Rom field.Cogitatio2015-09-29info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.17645/si.v3i5.275oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/275Social Inclusion; Vol 3, No 5 (2015): Talking about Roma: Implications for Social Inclusion; 115-1252183-2803reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/275https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v3i5.275https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/275/275Copyright (c) 2015 Ada I. Engebrigtsenhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEngebrigtsen, Ada I.2022-12-20T11:00:29Zoai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/275Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:22:00.073604Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Educating the Roma: The Struggle for Cultural Autonomy in a Seminomadic Group in Norway |
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Educating the Roma: The Struggle for Cultural Autonomy in a Seminomadic Group in Norway |
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Educating the Roma: The Struggle for Cultural Autonomy in a Seminomadic Group in Norway Engebrigtsen, Ada I. education; habitus; Norway; resistance; Roma; symbolic capital |
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Educating the Roma: The Struggle for Cultural Autonomy in a Seminomadic Group in Norway |
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Educating the Roma: The Struggle for Cultural Autonomy in a Seminomadic Group in Norway |
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Educating the Roma: The Struggle for Cultural Autonomy in a Seminomadic Group in Norway |
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Educating the Roma: The Struggle for Cultural Autonomy in a Seminomadic Group in Norway |
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Educating the Roma: The Struggle for Cultural Autonomy in a Seminomadic Group in Norway |
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Engebrigtsen, Ada I. |
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Engebrigtsen, Ada I. |
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Engebrigtsen, Ada I. |
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education; habitus; Norway; resistance; Roma; symbolic capital |
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education; habitus; Norway; resistance; Roma; symbolic capital |
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This paper will discuss the rationale of a group of Norwegian Roma who have resisted the government’s attempts to educate them since the early 1960s. Behind the scenes these Roma claim that a school education is irrelevant for their children yet, when faced with school authorities, they comply. The authorities have used different approaches to promote education for Rom children however, their success is questionable. So what is at stake here? What is wrong with education from the Roma’s point of view and how do the authorities respond? This article opens with a presentation of the history and background of the Norwegian Roma. It then presents the Norwegian system of public primary and lower secondary education and their attempts to accommodate Rom children. It critically examines the concept of education and the unquestioned and self-evident understanding of schooling as a liberating force per se. It further makes use of Bourdieu’s analysis of symbolic capital and habitus and discusses the Roma’s resistance to education and why symbolic capital developed through public school education is not converted to the Rom field. |
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