The strategies and measures that target ethnically education and a participation gap in education among Roma in Croatia
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| Název: | The strategies and measures that target ethnically education and a participation gap in education among Roma in Croatia |
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| Autoři: | Petričušić, Antonija |
| Informace o vydavateli: | 2025. |
| Rok vydání: | 2025 |
| Témata: | early integration, Roma, segregated primary schools, access to education for persons belonging to national minorities |
| Popis: | This paper examines the strategies and measures outlined in both the European Union (EU) and Croatian integration frameworks to address the early childhood education participation gap in early childhood education among Roma populations. Such participation gap in EU Member States is elaborated in the 2020 EU strategic framework for Roma equality, inclusion, and participation. The strategic framework sets ambitious targets for 2030 aimed at reducing socio-economic disparities and promoting meaningful inclusion. Among these targets are significant reductions in the participation gap in early childhood education and the elimination of segregated schooling. In alignment with the EU strategic framework, the Croatian National Plan for Roma Inclusion 2021-2027 continues the nation's longstanding commitment to Roma inclusion, initiated with the National Roma Program back in 2003. The Croatian National Plan for Roma Inclusion aims to enhance the socio-economic status of Roma communities through targeted measures in education, employment, social care, and anti-discrimination efforts. Notably, it emphasizes increasing early childhood education participation rates and reducing primary school segregation among Roma children. Roma education as a whole is still far from being equal with the general population. Less than a third of children are involved in pre-school education, and the prescribed duration of pre-school programs (250-550 hours per year) in the year prior to starting primary school does not guarantee mitigation of the impacts of social and material deprivation to which children are exposed. Furthermore, the involvement of primary school children in special programs, particularly of children who participate in such programs due to insufficient knowledge of the Croatian language and the lack of early integration, further narrows the space for their socialization in peer groups. The problem of ethnically segregated classes, in which one fifth of Roma children in the Republic of Croatia and almost half of children in Međimurje County are educated, needs special attention in the coming period in order to fully achieve the goal of inclusive education. Also, in order to prevent primary school leaving, as a prerequisite for later stages of education, adequate, gender-sensitive preventive measures must be taken at key time intervals when school leaving most often occurs (i.e. from the age of 15 when the legal obligation of compulsory education ends). |
| Druh dokumentu: | Conference object |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsair.dris...01492..ec0270eb952fd4a2123d9385a62e087f |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | This paper examines the strategies and measures outlined in both the European Union (EU) and Croatian integration frameworks to address the early childhood education participation gap in early childhood education among Roma populations. Such participation gap in EU Member States is elaborated in the 2020 EU strategic framework for Roma equality, inclusion, and participation. The strategic framework sets ambitious targets for 2030 aimed at reducing socio-economic disparities and promoting meaningful inclusion. Among these targets are significant reductions in the participation gap in early childhood education and the elimination of segregated schooling. In alignment with the EU strategic framework, the Croatian National Plan for Roma Inclusion 2021-2027 continues the nation's longstanding commitment to Roma inclusion, initiated with the National Roma Program back in 2003. The Croatian National Plan for Roma Inclusion aims to enhance the socio-economic status of Roma communities through targeted measures in education, employment, social care, and anti-discrimination efforts. Notably, it emphasizes increasing early childhood education participation rates and reducing primary school segregation among Roma children. Roma education as a whole is still far from being equal with the general population. Less than a third of children are involved in pre-school education, and the prescribed duration of pre-school programs (250-550 hours per year) in the year prior to starting primary school does not guarantee mitigation of the impacts of social and material deprivation to which children are exposed. Furthermore, the involvement of primary school children in special programs, particularly of children who participate in such programs due to insufficient knowledge of the Croatian language and the lack of early integration, further narrows the space for their socialization in peer groups. The problem of ethnically segregated classes, in which one fifth of Roma children in the Republic of Croatia and almost half of children in Međimurje County are educated, needs special attention in the coming period in order to fully achieve the goal of inclusive education. Also, in order to prevent primary school leaving, as a prerequisite for later stages of education, adequate, gender-sensitive preventive measures must be taken at key time intervals when school leaving most often occurs (i.e. from the age of 15 when the legal obligation of compulsory education ends). |
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