Roma and Non-Roma Views about Their Children's Learning Difficulties

Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association. Web site: http://www.nrmera.org/educational-research-theory-practice/

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Migrants; Population Groups; Minority Groups; Migration; Migrant Children; Migrant Education; Foreign Countries; Social Bias; Equal Education; Learning Problems; Books; Academic Achievement; Parent Attitudes; Parent Participation; Public Schools; Social Services

Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Kosovo; Macedonia; Moldova; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia

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Roma have been described as the most hated minority in Europe. Particularly in Southeastern Europe (SEE), this bias is reflected in how Roma children are treated and segregated in schools. Anecdotal evidence shows that Roma parents may give permission for their children to be included in segregated programs in order to benefit from payments, food and other compensations. This pattern may explain the overrepresentation of Roma children in segregated settings for children with disabilities in the region. In this analysis of parent survey data from ten SEE countries, with oversampling of the Roma minority, we found that Roma parents were no more likely to report that their children had learning difficulties than non-Roma parents. Instead, books in the home was the strongest single predictor of whether parents in either group reported that their children had learning problems.

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2020

EJ1248639