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Educational policy towards Roma: an application of a theoretical approach social constructions of target populations on a problem of educating Roma pupils in the Czech schools
Jeráčková, Aneta ; Novotný, Vilém (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with educational policy towards Roma pupils in the Czech Republic. This problem is explored on the basis of theoretical approach called social constructions of target populations. Educational policy towards Roma pupils has a provable negative character, because it segregates many Roma pupils from the educational mainstream and thus it prevents them from achieving an adequate level of education. On the opposite side of this "double-track" education system there is a concept of inclusive education, which is considered on the EU level as more effective and beneficial for the whole society. However, there is a polemic in the Czech society, both professional and non-professional, with respect to reforming the education system into more open and inclusive form. Despite of the fact that the concept of inclusive education has been formally accepted as a guideline of the Czech education system, it hasn't brought any real change so far, neither of the system itself, nor of the situation of Roma pupils in it. With an application of theoretical knowledge of the social constructions of target populations approach, this diploma thesis tries to understand a present image of the educational policy towards Roma pupils, in order to answer a question: why it has prevailing negative character...
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The Activities of Roma District Mentor in Český Krumlov District
ŠTINDLOVÁ, Jana
The thesis deals with the activities of Roma mentors in the district of Český Krumlov. The theoretical part descibes the service of Roma Mentor, projects of the Association for Probation and Mediation in Justice - citizens´ associations included in the Roma mentoring, Further, this part highlights the need for services for the target group through topics like criminality of Roma, Roma family/lineage, education and value system. Practical work includes the research methodology and presents the results of semi-structured interviews. The final discussion is devoted to the final evaluation and potential bias research.
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Roma Children and their School Successfulness
DRMOTOVÁ, Adéla
Romanies in the Czech Republic are considered the most numerous national minority. At present time we can percieve especially the gradual diappearance of traditional values of this ethnic and its place on the edge of society. One of the ways out of this situation is considered education of Roma children. The school successfulness is closely related to education. Therefore, the topic of my thesis is called {\clqq}Roma children and their school successfulness.`` The thesis was conceived as qualitative research, the aim of which was to chart school successfulness of Roma children at the begining of school attendance (first and second grades) from the view of Roma children and their parents. In theoretical part I devoted to historical fates of Romany people, their culture and their contemporary position in society. This part contains information on Romanies´ education and describes school successfulness of Roma children. The technique of field data collecting was half-guided dialogue completed with observation and analysis of the documents. The target research group were Roma children from ``Erko``- low-threshold facility for children and youth at District Charity in Jihlava, and for their parents.The research results were processed by form of case study and consequently compared with scientific literature. Following hypotheses resulted from the research: ,,Education of Roma children is important for Roma patente.``,,It is important to be educated for Roma children as well.`` From the results it is evident that ,,Roma parents are interested in school results of their children.`` The research showed: ,,if a child attends pre-school institution, the risk of repetition in the first grade decreases.`` ,,Main reason of first grade repetition is failure in Czech Language.`` ,,Czech Language represents the biggest problem for Roma children at the beginning of school attendance, therefore it turns in the least favourite subjekt.`` {\clqq}Mothers dominate in the sphere of school duties of their own Roma children.`` The research also realised that {\clqq}Roma children don´t know Roma language.`` {\clqq}Parents don´t tell Roma fairy-tales or stories to their children.`` This work gives basic survey on Roma ethnic.The research material can serve as a base for further study or according to offered hypotheses it can become an inspiration for quantitative research.
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Romany child in a preschool education
ŘEHÁKOVÁ, Lenka
The aim of bachelor thesis is to facilitate the progress of implementation of compulsory pre-school attendance of Roma children by providing theoretical information and relevant data for pre-school teachers. The work also provides stories of good practice, which are mainly implemented thanks to cooperation between kindergarten and staff in non-profit institution. The theoretical part focuses on the description of the current state of pre-school education of Roma children and some characteristics of the Roma, especially in connection with their education. The practical part defines two research objectives that build on each other. The first objective is to identify the reasons that lead Roma parents to take their children away from kindergarten. The second objective is to uncover possibilities that will first lead to the adaptation of a child in kindergarten and then to the remaining of the child there. Qualitative research was used to achieve the objectives of the research. There were used case studies as the research method and interview and observation as the research techniques. The research revealed either the well-known reasons, which are associated with low attendance of Roma children in kindergartens, such as financial reasons and mistrust of Roma parents, but also specific factors such as requirements of the kindergarten that the family cannot achieve or no respect for sibling relationships in the kindergarten. As emerged from the research, the factors, which positively affect the admission of Roma child to kindergarten, were mainly activities undertaken by pre-school clubs. Therefore the thesis recommends to promote cooperation among kindergartens and pre-school clubs, non-profit and government institutions, the Department of Social Affairs and Department of Education, as their cooperation could facilitate pre-school education for Roma children.
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Sound media usage in education of Roma drug users
PODZIMEK, Kamil
The essay is focused on transmission of information about harmfulness of drug abusing between Roma{\crq}s users and its efficiency. The work is pointing the alternative way of education the Roma{\crq}s abusers through sound media. The first chapter of theoretical part is about outreach social programme with drug abusers, its principles, target groups and aims. The second chapter describe application of theoretical base to the real successfully running outreach programme. In the third part are described the circumstances leading to existence of drug problem in Roma{\crq}s community and is focused on its specific aspects. Further more is introduced Roma{\crq}s traditional music as the part of their traditions. The practical part comes out with results of exploratory study based on interview with professionals, who work with drug abusers in different organizations in south bohemia region. The aim of the essay is on theoretical base discover the possibility of usage the sound media as a tool in education of Roma{\crq}s drug abusers. The outputs of this essay can be use in a future as a base for further research of practical usage of sound media as a tool in social services focused on drug abusers.
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Gypsies in our society in the kontext with the majority
Kůtková, Markéta ; Šotolová, Eva (advisor) ; Mlčková, Marie (referee)
The thesis deals with the relations between the Gypsies and the majority of companies. Briefly describes the history of Gypsies in the world and in our country, explores key points in history, when they first appear splits between the majority and the Gypsies minority. It also describes possible partial solution to this problem in multicultural education and awareness among the Roma and the majority society. There is mention of a key idea that a large part of the conflict between the two companies stems from a mutual lack of understanding of both cultures. The practical part deals with the attitudes and relationships of the majority of the Roma, which is directly experienced in every day life.
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Leading of the counselling dialogue by streetworkers of the communities in the Usti Region
Brožková, Lucie ; Lorenzová, Jitka (advisor) ; Charyparová, Michaela (referee)
This thesis has a theoretical and empirical nature of the study. Its aim is to determine whether methodological material (DVD model and control the form of interviews) focused on management consultancy interview with clients is applicable for field workers villages in the Ústí Region. The first chapter of this thesis is focused on putting in the current issue of municipal field workers in the Usti region. It deals with the functions of the Government Council for Roma minority, personalities coordinator of field staff and its functions. Furthermore, given the qualifying assumptions and education outreach worker, his work include and description of activities. The second chapter deals with the typology of clients, traits of clients from socially excluded localities, the analysis of socially excluded localities in the Ústí region and represents the work of the Agency for Social Inclusion. The third chapter describes and discusses the stages of the counseling inter view, including his methodological elaboration. Other chapters describe the application of methodical materials, dedicated to the analysis of its use in practice, formulate recommendations for working with clients through discussion and suggest other options considering the theme.
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The Roma minority by view of Vimperk's majority
MISTROVÁ, Jaroslava
Romanies are the most numerous ethnic minority in the Czech Republic. The Romany minority is very often connected with the problem of social exclusion. Excluded Romanies have got a lower level of education, high unemployment, high criminality, a worse state of health, a shorter average length of life, a low level of eating and housing. The majority socially dissociates themselvesfrom them. The bachelor´s thesis titled The Romany Minority in Vimperk from the Point of View of the Majority is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part deals with social exclusion, describes Romanies, sub-ethnic groups of Romanies and their origin. It also describes the current situation of Romanies in the Czech Republic and in the town of Vimperk based on the data obtained from the Czech statistical office. The next chapters address selected social problems of Romanies and the related problem of discrimination. They namely focus on the topic of housing, unemployment, and education. Discrimination can usually be understood as differentiation or as a different approach to groups of people of certain age, gender, racial or ethnic origin; to people adhering to a specific culture and religion, or to groups which have got a specific disadvantage, alternatively a marginal social position; and who differ in this characteristic from other people. The last chapter deals with selected socially pathological phenomena concerning the Romany minority, such as criminality, gambling, drugs, and prostitution. The goal of this thesis is to chart the view of the majority inhabitants on the Romany minority in the town of Vimperk using the concept of social distance. Furthermore, its aim is to find out the cause of the negative view using quantitative research. The quantitative research was conducted through the method of questioning - the technique of standardized questionnaire. Two research questions have been determined for the purpose of thethesis: VO 1: What is the social distance of the majority against the Romany minority in Vimperk? VO 2: What are the sources of the negative view of the majority on the Romany minority in Vimperk? Following hypotheses were set based on the research questions: H1a: The social distance towards the Romany minority is growing with age. H1b: The social distance towards the Romany minority is higher in case of men than women. H1c: The social distance to the Romany minority is decreasing with higher education of the majority. H1d: The people who experienced a direct conflict with the Romanies evince higher rate of social distance compared to the people who have not experiences any direct conflict. The whole aggregate includes 133 majority inhabitants who live in the town of Vimperk from the age of 18 over 65 years of age. The obtained data have been processed through descriptive statistics in the programme Excel and set hypotheses have been evaluated statistically in the programme SPSS. The results have shown that the social distance of the majority inhabitants against the Romany minority in the town of Vimperk is not significantly influenced by gender, age, or education. The majority society dissociate themselves the most from the Romany minority in the relation of near kinship through marriage and a near friend, according to Bogardus´s scale of social distance. The Bogardus´s social distance scale is most often used to measure racism and other ethnic prejudice. It is a scale which consists of statements that are supposed to show what social distances feel the respondents among themselves and other groups. Among the most common problems connected to the Romany minority in the town of Vimperk is the disturbance of the peace at night, criminality, prostitution, drugs, and gambling. Other problems which appear in connection to the Romanies is unemployment, venereal diseases, maladjusted behaviour in the society, and polluting the town.
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