THE ROMA AND EDUCATION IN SPAIN

Fundación Secretariado Gitano

ROMA COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

• 80% of Roma children begin school at 3 years or earlier.

• Enrollment thanks to their parent´s initiative and without problems associated to it.

PRIMARY EDUCATION

• 93% of Roma children attend school at 6 years old.

• 1 in every 3 students assist regularly to school (absenteeism)

• More than half of Roma students present lower educational achievement than the average.

SECONDARY EDUCATION

• High rates of course repetition

• Curricular delay

• Early drop-out (before

compulsory education fulfillment)

• Low presence of Roma population in post-compulsory studies.

Despite the progresses achieved, the gap between the educational situation of the Roma population and the rest of the population is truly alarming.

FSG AND EDUCATION

30 YEARS WORKING IN THE PROMOTION OF

EDUCATION

SUPPORT SCHOOL ENROLMENT

TACKLING SCHOOL ABSENTEEISM

TACKLING EARLY DROP-OUT

SCHOOL SUCCESS

PROMOTION OF INTERCULTURALISM AT

SCHOOLS

TRAINING AND AWARENESS

PROGRAMMES FOR TEACHERS

UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL REALITY

DEVELOPMENT OF STUDIES AND RESEARCHES

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

AWARENESS

SUPPORT TO PURSUE POST-COMPULSORY

STUDIES

Promociona

Educational support and guidance programme for Roma youth and their families

Facilitate the transition between the primary

and secondary education and support the permanence in the

education system.

Support to obtain their ESO (compulsory

secondary education) qualification

Promote access to post-compulsory

studies.

To achieve higher academic sucess at the end of primary education and throughout the compulsory secondary level of education.

OBJECTIVES

INTERVENTION STAGES

Dissemination and recruitment

Selection of students

Reception and assesment

Design of the individualised Intervention

Plan

INTERVENTION Evaluation Monitoring

Individualised educational counselling:

- Family - Student

Group actions: -Promociona classrooms

- Other actions

Coordination with schools

Coordination with other agents and

services INTERVENTION

Priority

Roma students in the final stages of primary education (5th and 6th grade) and in compulsory secondary education (from 1st to 4th grade) and their families

Student´s regular school attendance

Minimum family involvement in the

educational process

School´s involvement

Profile < 20% school absenteeism. < 2 years of curricular delay Family collaboration

BENEFICIARIES

INDIVIDUAL LEVEL

The work with the student and his/her family should be personalised. This translates into the design of an Individualised Intervention Plan and individualised tutoring and counselling sessions with the student and his/her family.

Priority

Tutoring with students: Educational counselling, routine

strengthening, school rules, crisis and self-confidence support, etc.

Counsellilng sessions with families: Awareness about the importance of education,

information and counselling about the education system, the importance of their

implication in their children education, grants management…

COORDINATION WITH SCHOOLS

The coordination with schools is a key factor in the development of the programme.

School professionals participate in the Individualised Intervention Plan. The aim is to work in coordination. Regular coordination meetings with the specialised personnel of Promociona Programme, for the monitoring and assessment of the educative processes of the students.

Complementary group actions between teachers and students to pay attention on diversity and interculturality at schools.

FSG signs collaboration agreements with the schools involved in the Promociona Programme

Promociona Classrooms

GROUP LEVEL

Academic support and reinforcement Skilled and specialised personnel, reduced groups, adapted

contents, coordination with the school.

Students participation in neighborhood activities, student´s meetings, etc.

Parents involvement at community level. Activities related to the educational process of the students, awareness and neighborhood activities.

SOCIAL-COMMUNITY LEVEL

Focus placed on the environment and on social agents close to students and schools as elements which have an informal influence on their educational process and on the achievement of the Promociona Programme's objectives.

SENSITIVITY AND AWARENESS RAISING CAMPAIGNS

Roma with studies, Roma with a future

(2012-2013)

2800 photos of Roma children converted into the professional

they dream of becoming

When I grow up I want to be… ( 2010-2011)

70 teenage-boys and girls converted in reference

points for their schoolmates and friends

With studies your dreams come true( 2013-2014)

Some days in the profession of their dreams

http://gitanos.org/gitanosconestudios/

ANDALUCÍA

Almería Córdoba Granada Huelva

Jaén Jerez de la Frontera

La Línea Linares Málaga Sevilla

ARAGÓN Zaragoza Huesca

ASTURIAS Gijón

Oviedo Avilés

CANTABRIA Santander CASTILLA LA

MANCHA Albacete

Ciudad Real

CASTILLA Y LEON

León Salamanca

Palencia Valladolid

Burgos

CATALUÑA Badalona Sabadell

COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA

Valencia Alicante Castellón

EXTREMADURA Mérida Cáceres Badajoz

GALICIA

A Coruña Lugo Vigo

Pontevedra

MADRID Madrid ( Latina)

Madrid ( Vallecas) Madrid ( Villaverde)

MURCIA Murcia

NAVARRA Pamplona, Aoiz, Murillo-Carcastillo, Santacara

2009-2014

Figures PROMOCIONA 2009-2014

14 20

27 31

37 38

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20

30

40

Año 2009 Año 2010 Año 2011 Año 2012 Año 2013 Año 2014

Number of municipalities where the programme is being implemented

135 253

710 933

1182 1357

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500

1000

1500

2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014

Number of Promociona students

112 223

617

808

1023 1148

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200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014

Number of families involved in the programme

65 108

224 270

353 385

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100

150

200

250

300

350

400

450

2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014

Number of schools involved

5 18 94 124 125 158

524

Promociona students that obtained their ESO qualification

Total Alumnas Alumnos

77,45% 78,26% 76,40%

Promociona students in 4th grade that obtained their Secondary

Compulsory qualifications. 2013-2014

Total Alumnas Alumnos

88,60%

85,08%

92,60%

Promociona students that pursued their post-compulsory sudies.

2013-2014

Main achievements • Increase of academic success • Higher motivation towards studies • Increased involvement of families and schools • Higher expectations

Potential impact in the mid-term

THANK YOU