IVp005 The Education for the Roma: Surveillance vs. Empowerment

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Victoria Shmidt, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pančocha, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PhDr. Lenka Gajzlerová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
IVp005/01: Fri 29. 9. 8:25–14:25 učebna 24, Fri 10. 11. 8:25–14:25 učebna 24, V. Shmidt
Prerequisites
The course expects the readiness of the students to apply interdisciplinary approach to such sensitive issues as segregation, whiteness, racism.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
Course objectives
By the end of the course students will become familiar with wide range of possible methodological approaches to recognize the the issues around the education for the Roma people: comparative historicala analysis, critical psychology, whiteness studeis, and etc; get the knowledge about the impact of past policies on the contemporary limits and options in implementing the educational rights for the Roma; experience critical analysis for deconstructing the discurses and policies aroudn the Roma.
Syllabus
  • This course unit aims to introduce the students into ‘the issue of the Roma’, the ways of thinking about the Roma, the history of policies, practices and discourses around them, and contemporary attempts to implement the educational rights of Roma people – with the particular focus on the countries in Central Eastern Europe but not only. The central concept of this course is communication: how do the past and present communicate as well as the course offers to recognize not the history and state of arts of the Roma, but the multiple communication between the Roma and non-Roma population, professionals, scholars and institutions. The course puts forward the idea that it is not meaningless but dangerous trend to separate the issue of education for the Roma from wider historical, cultural and social contexts of CEE countries. The retrospective analysis focuses on the continuities between the imperial, interwar, WWII, socialist and post-socialist periods in favor of recognizing the reproduction of the ideas and practices targeted to segregation against the Roma. The course pays special attention to the current academic and cultural practices of collective memories regarding the various historical narratives about the segregation against the Roma and the history of their life in CEE countries in general. The course consists of two parts, and combines various types of interactive learning methods including online methods. Part 1 Historical overview of the policies around the Roma in the CEE countries Imperial period: the comparative analysis of the educational policies around the Roma in Osman and Habsburg empires Interwar period: the education for the Roma as a part of building the nations WWII: the extermination by Nazi and practices of resistance Socialist period: the diversity of forcible assimilation across the countries and over the five socialist decades Post-socialist period: indelible whiteness and other colors of the EU policies around the Roma Part 2 Ways of thinking about “the Roma issue” Roma as an object of academic studies: the scientific metaphors around the Roma children over last three centuries Constructing the educational and other rights of the Roma people in strategic litigation (the judgements of European Court of Human Rights) Collective memories and cultural practices around the Roma as core of informal education of tolerance: the project Preservation of Gypsy/Roma historical and cultural heritage in Bulgaria; the Museum of Romani culture; The Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism in Berlin The Roma in movies: the reflections of political vicissitudes and the resistance to social pressure
Literature
    recommended literature
  • SHMIDT, Victoria. The Violence of Knowledge in Practices Toward Roma in the Czech Republic The Historical Echo of Surveillance During Socialism. Global Humanities. Německo: Neofelis Verlag, 2016, vol. 2016, No 4, p. 117-138. ISSN 2199-3939. info
  • SHMIDT, Victoria. Child welfare discourses and practices in the Czech lands: the segregation of Roma and disabled children during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Online. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 130 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7834-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-7834-2015. URL info
  • SHMIDT, Victoria. The eugenicsfication of child protection during the First Republic: recognising the segregation of disabled and Roma children in the Czech lands. In annual conference of ESPAnet. 2013. URL info
Teaching methods
group work, online learning, seminars
Assessment methods
participation in the workshops and seminars (30%); participation in online sessions (30%); essay (English, Czech) or review on book of relevant topic (40%)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Výuka v bloku – 2x 8 hodin --> celkem 16 hod.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2017, recent)
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