Roma education

This paper explores the development of the UK Gypsy and Traveller third sector and details factors which have impeded development. This includes a lack of resources and skills but also illustrates how in recent years important progress has been made in community development. The paper concludes that the current cutbacks and reduction in resources for community development, combined with new policies that Gypsies and Travellers perceive as being hostile towards them, could undermine progress made. The paper argues that 'positive action' combined with greater community involvement in service delivery could strengthen the Gypsy and Traveller third sector and foster intercultural dialogue and promote inclusion. Processes evident in other branches of the third sector (McCabe et al., 2010). The paper is relevant to a number of TSRC work streams, particularly 'Below the Radar' which explores the role, function, impact and experiences of small community action groups or organisations.

Socialisation of Roma children which is related to education is one of the most important problems of Roma community. In the recent years an increasing number of Roma children have attended school but only a few Roma have completed the programme of secondary education. The literacy of others is poor, so it is important for their teachers to be aware of their needs and understand the difficulties of their socialisation. The aim of the article is to reveal the socialisation features of Roma children. The article discusses the primary institution of socialisation for Roma children – the ethnic family; it analyses social and educational problems of Roma children which affect the success of socialisation and reveals the features of socialisation of Roma children at school. The results of research literature analysis and empirical results have shown that a Roma family is an institution where ethnical socialisation takes place and which functions to help a child to become a community membe...

Socialisation of Roma children which is related to education is one of the most important problems of Roma community. In the recent years an increasing number of Roma children have attended school but only a few Roma have completed the programme of secondary education. The literacy of others is poor, so it is important for their teachers to be aware of their needs and understand the difficulties of their socialisation. The aim of the article is to reveal the socialisation features of Roma children. The article discusses the primary institution of socialisation for Roma children – the ethnic family; it analyses social and educational problems of Roma children which affect the success of socialisation and reveals the features of socialisation of Roma children at school. The results of research literature analysis and empirical results have shown that a Roma family is an institution where ethnical socialisation takes place and which functions to help a child to become a community membe...

The 'gender gap' in attainment is an issue in Scotland but is also an international phenomenon. In Scotland, this gap continues to be apparent as girls outperform boys in national examinations. This raises challenges for those working in schools and for policymakers in responding to this phenomenon. This article focuses on appraising critically the policy context of gender and, more specifically, attainment within Scotland from the perspective of the national education system, and from the perspective of Scotland being part of the UK, and consequently being subject to UK-wide and European legislation on equality. Attainment data is presented to set this phenomenon in a national and international context and serves to show that the gap is most significant for academically able boys, rather than all boys. The policy examined for this article suggests that the focus has been on all boys rather than considering which groups of boys and girls. In most recent policies in Scotland and the UK there appears to be a 'gender blindness' with gender being subsumed into inclusion and diversity. The article concludes by raising some questions for those influencing and making policy if there is to be a deeper understanding of gender, the gender gap and how this is to inform practice.

cuenta con diversos centros de actividad fuera y dentro de la escuela, en entornos con alto riesgo de exclusión social, y con participantes pertenecientes a minorías culturales entre las que predomina la de los gitanos. Desde una perspectiva propia de la Psicología Cultural, se identifican cinco elementos que dotan de sentido a la participación en las actividades del proyecto y que explican su continuidad a lo largo de los últimos 15 años: adecuación tecnológica, carácter colaborativo, apropiabilidad, narratividad y agentividad.

Our paper is based on a study carried out among students of Hungarian tanodassecond chance educational institutions in Hungaryand their parents. The findings of the interview research did not support deficit models and suggest that schooling is a vital issue for both Roma/Gypsy families and their children. All families have limited resources and opportunities to achieve desired goals, and despite their strong intent and determination, they often seem to lack a clear vision of the steps to be taken. Our results show that children have to cope with negligence, stigmatization, exclusion, discrimination, etc. Turning to tanodas for help has become a sort of coping strategy in and of itself. We could identify, as common parental strategies, the 'squeezing out' of the maximum available scarce opportunities, building on social networks, and monitoring their children's studies. Students' coping mechanisms regarding identity-threats were more varied and ranged from confrontation via proxy control and social support, to disengaging from school and taking on a negative identity or, the opposite, taking up positive roles.

The book presents the authorial model of the psychologist's work at school which assumes that this work should include monitoring of the educational process taking place at school, followed by extensive promotional activities, prevention and, in the event of problems, intervention. The model allows holistic approaches to the psychologist's activity in the school environment, including planning and checking the effectiveness of his/her actions, which were described with reference to school realities.

During the last years, in Romania and Bulgaria, an acceleration of existent disparities took place compared to the European Union countries as regards the occupational labor structures and an decreased evolution of the active population migration to other EU states. Starting from these considerations, the present paper shows an analysis of general and specific aspects of the labor market in the two neighbouring countries, starting from the general analysis, at national level, continuing with the regional analysis until the local analysis of the labor market, at cross border level. In Romania, in 2016, an employment rate of the population at work age (15-64 years old) was of 61.6%, to an active population of 8,979 thousand persons, of which 8,449 thousand employed persons and 530 thousand were unemployed. In Bulgaria, in 2016 the active population was of 3,264 thousand persons, respectively, 53.3%, of which 3,199.6 thousand employed persons and 64.4 thousand unemployed. The employmen...

Auf einem Glückwunschtelegramm des Verbands der Deutschen Sinti e. V. vom 6. Oktober 1980 zur gewonnenen Bundestagswahl, gerichtet an den wiedergewählten Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt, hat ein unbekannter Mitarbeiter den Absender Verband der Sinti e. V. durchgestrichen und durch den Ausdruck Verband der deutschen Zigeuner ersetzt. (Telegramm an BK Schmidt. In: Archiv der sozialen Demokratie, Helmut-Schmidt-Depositum 1/HSAA009825). Offenkundig konnten 1980 im Bundeskanzleramt noch nicht alle Mitarbeiter mit dem Ausdruck Sinti etwas anfangen und ersetzten ihn mit dem bis dahin tradierten Ausdruck Zigeuner. Der folgende Beitrag untersucht exemplarisch, wie die Prozesse der politischen Anerkennung der Sinti und Roma dazu beigetragen haben, die Sprachpraxis staatlicher Stellen zu verändern. Dies wird anhand verschiedener politischer Akteure untersucht, unter anderem mit dem Ergebnis, dass es Politiker und staatliche Stellen heute vermeiden, den Ausdruck Zigeuner verwenden. Weiterhin ist zu hinterfragen, wer der maßgebliche Akteur des Sprachwandels war. Gleichfalls wird nach den Motiven des eingeleiteten Sprachwandels gefragt, bzw. ob die gesetzten Ziele erreicht wurden. Dieser Artikel ist im Rahmen der Forschungen zu meinem Promotionsvorhaben entstanden. Mein Ziel ist es, die historischen Diskurse nachzuzeichnen, die um politische Anerkennung, finanzielle Entschädigung und die wissenschaftliche Deutungshoheit den Völkermord an Sinti und Roma betreffend in der Bundesrepublik in Bezug auf die Sinti und Roma 1 , vor allem zu Beginn der 1980er Jahre, geführt wurden. Dabei ist aus heutiger Perspektive in der Öffentlichkeit unumstritten, dass der massenhafte Mord an den Sinti und Roma im || 1 Mir ist bewusst, dass alle Begriffe problematisch sind, doch benutze ich aus Respekt die Eigenbezeichnung "Sinti und Roma", auch wenn ich auf Probleme dieser Sammelbezeichnung im Text hinweise.

List of photographs List of Tables List of Figures List of Maps Bibliography Appendices Chapter One-introduction and background Introduction Rationale for this study-Why is Attachment to People and Place for members of the Traveller Communities, an important and relevant topic for research Development of the Thesis Previous research On a personal level Structure of the Thesis Chapter Two-Policy overview community Psychological Cost of the Eviction of Dale Farm on the Travellers' Was the eviction of Dale Farm worth it in the end? Conclusion Chapter Three-Conceptual Framework-Introduction.

This paper consists of discussion of findings from a series of empirical studies conducted in London and southern England. A central concern of these studies was to explore the collective responses and adaptations of Gypsies and Travellers to post-war (1945) government legislation which has aimed to eradicate nomadic lifestyles and in so doing, to settle and assimilate this group into the general population. Despite these policy objectives Gypsies and Travellers through utilising forms of cultural resilience have resisted enormous pressures to assimilate, managing to live within a wider culture while rejecting its values and social institutions and recreating traditional collective lifestyles (as far as possible) within 'bricks and mortar' accommodation. The authors outline contemporary forms of resistance to assimilation and, by drawing on qualitative and ethnographic data, demonstrate how relations between the state and Gypsies and Travellers is characterised by a cyclical...

Armut und Ausgrenzung in Ungarn Was ist Armut? Vor einigen Jahren erschien in Ungarn in der Zeitschrift "Pedagógiai Szemle" (Pädagogische Rundschau) eine Artikelreihe, in der auszugsweise Gespräche in Klassenlehrerstunden veröffentlicht wurden. In einem Beitrag wurde die Diskussion einer Gymnasialklasse über die Armut abgedruckt. Die 15-bis 16-jährigen Schülerinnen und Schüler definierten Armut unterschiedlich: "Peter C.: Armut beginnt dort, wenn es in der Familie nicht genug zu essen gibt, und wenn das Geld nicht ausreicht, um die Nebenkosten zu bezahlen. Sonja L.: Armut ist, wenn man kein Geld hat für normale Möbel, Schuhe, Kleider, und vor allem, wenn die Eltern ihre Kinder nicht anständig kleiden können. Blasius N.: Satt werden reicht nicht aus, denn wenn man noch nicht einmal an den Wochenenden bessere Mahlzeiten hat, wie Fleisch, Cola für die Kinder, Bier für die Eltern, dann ist es schon Armut. Thomas K.: Nach meiner Meinung ist es bereits Armut, wenn man sich keine Bücher kaufen kann, kein einziges Mal im Jahr ins Theater gehen oder Ferien machen kann. Wenn schon nicht im Ausland, dann wenigstens am Plattensee oder auf dem Lande, mindestens für eine Woche. Maria M.: Ich glaube, was du sagst, das ist schon Luxus. Armut ist, wenn man kein Geld für normales Essen hat und nicht einmal gebrauchte Kleider an der Turi (Kleiderbörse) kaufen kann. Und vor allem, wenn man eine Woche vor dem Zahltag ein Darlehen aufnehmen muss, das sofort zurückbezahlt werden muss, wenn der Lohn kommt. Elisabeth S.: Arbeitslosigkeit ist Armut! Vor allem, wenn die Eltern keine Jobs haben, und vielleicht ein Elternteil nicht einmal Arbeitslosengeld bekommt, sondern nur Sozialhilfe". 1

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This article describes the basics of sustainability of Shere Rom's Project, a network of practice communities based on Fifth Dimension model. This network, coordinated by a service of Applied Psychology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, has several activity centers in and outside school, in environments with high risk of social exclusion, with participants from cultural minorities-being Roma community the predominant group-. From a cultural psychology perspective, are identified five elements that give meaning to participation in project activities and explain its continuity over the last 15 years: technological adaptation, collaborative nature, appropriability, narrativity and agentivity.

This paper is an attempt to offer a specific perspective on the interrelation and complex ity of the spatial and social mobility trajectory and its multilayered effects on habitus. This family case study is based on two semistructured family history interviews. Its protagonist is a return migrant who is deeply embedded in the periphery (tanyavilág) of a Hungarian rural town. After spending almost fifteen years in the UK, she moved back to this relatively marginalised microplace and bought an old farmhouse. The interpreta tion of her periodical migration trajectory focuses on the process of change in habitus and interprets the question of the 'emotional cost' of migration through the interrelation of spatial and social mobility. This perspective emphasises the spatial aspects of how mo bility can dynamize the practical and emotional aspects of dislocation and belonging, while offering an insight into the adaptation of habitus. It is primarily examined through a homemaking process, which reveals the reconciliation of different placebased, family inherited, and newly developed (migrationrelated) dispositions. This Bourdieusian inter pretation shows that this home is a materialised reality as well as a symbol of social and spatial position. This harmonious 'sense of (social) place' (Hillier & Rocksby, 2002) can be grasped in terms of taste and lifestyle, revealing that 'freedom of choice' is the lived meaning of this intergenerational social mobility trajectory, which was fuelled by trans national migration.

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Transparent flexible capacitors are important in the development of advanced future electronics devices like transparent sensors, electronic devices, high pixel displays, thin film multilayer solar cells and transparent circuit. Transparent conducting films has a composite structure of Aluminium doped zinc Oxide - silver nanowire (AgNWs) is deposited using pulsed laser deposition technique. The resistance of transparent conducting films is 120 Ω/mm when ITO and AgNW network were involved. Transparent capacitors with the dielectric structure of AhO3-TiO2- AI2O3 were fabricated on the composite electrodes, with a capacitance density of 10.1fF μm-2. The broad frequency ranges from 3 kHz to 1 MHz. The flexibility is found to be a maximum of 25mm without changing the capacitance. Transparency of capacitor is demonstrated at an average optical transmittance of over 75–80% in the visible range, and thus the practical application of transparent devices and integrated circuits is obtained.

This research question arose though the lead practitioner's professional practice, which is focused upon the transfer and retention of Traveller children from primary to secondary school. The research project involved two contrasting areas of Cambridgeshire ...

School issues have become increasingly important in public elections and political debates, leading to increased focus on the results students achieve in international large-scale assessments and in the rankings of the involved countries. One of the most important studies of scholastic performance is the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which has gained a good deal of attention since the first study was published in 2000. This article analyses to what extent examples from international assessments and other countries’ results have been used as arguments for school policy change in Germany and Sweden. The conclusion is that both countries, after undergoing a “PISA shock”, found justification for changes in their education policy by referring to other countries. Their views of how to solve the problem (i.e., the drop in results) were also similar: increased management and control of parts of the education system, albeit by different means.

The paper aims to contribute to the assessment of the contextual relevance of various educational policies through an analysis of three aspects of the performance profiles of European countries: participation, the quality of learning outcomes and the equity of learning outcomes. Comparative analysis of international student achievement assessment surveys and statistical data reveals three European performance patterns: the compensative education systems of North and Northwest Europe, the selective education systems of Central Europe and the attritional education systems of Southeast Europe. On the basis of the identified performance patterns, the paper provides a brief outline of major trends within the Central and Southeast European regions, shares reflections on the alignment of policies that fit the distinct context of the two regions and offers a conceptual framework for further comparative research.

This chapter explores the upward social mobility trajectories, and the corollary prices of them for those 45, first-in-family college educated Roma in Hungary who come from socially disadvantaged and marginalised family and community background. We argue that among the academically high-achieving participants of our study the most common upward mobility trajectory, contrary to the common belief of assimilation, is their distinctive minority mobility path which leads to their selective acculturation into the majority society. This distinctive incorporation into the mainstream is close to what the related academic scholarship calls the ‘minority culture of mobility’. The three main elements of this distinct mobility trajectory among the Roma are (1) The construction of a Roma middle class identity that takes belonging to the Roma community as a source of pride, in contrast of the widespread racial stereotypes in Hungary (and all over Europe) that are closely tied to the perception of ...

Thema des Beitrags ist die Frage, wie in einer quantitativen Herangehensweise die Spracheinstellungen von linguistischen Laien erfasst werden konnen. Das IDS hat 2017/18 im Rahmen des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) des Deutschen Instituts fur Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) eine neue bundesweite Reprasentativerhebung zu Spracheinstellungen durchgefuhrt. Im Beitrag prasentieren wir erste Ergebnisse dieser Erhebung und verknupfen sie mit fruheren Erhebungen. In drei Abschnitten befassen wir uns mit der Bewertung von regionalen Varietaten des Deutschen und der Bewertung des Standards, mit Meinungen zu sprachlichem Gendern sowie, aus einer methodischen Perspektive, mit der Erhebung von sprachlichen Daten im deutschen Mikrozensus.

Seit über einem Jahrzehnt plädieren transkulturelle Arbeiten für die Einbindung von mehr-/anders-und fremdsprachiger Literatur in der Schule. Dennoch konzentriert sich die Mehrheit der literaturdidaktischen Forschung hierzu bisher auf die klassische "Migranten-/Minderheitenliteratur" oder auf den Einbezug von literarischen Werken aus unseren europäischen Nachbarländern. Ganz am Rande erscheinen beispielsweise (in zunehmender Anzahl) Publikationen zur Literatur deutscher Sprachinseln im Ausland (z.B. Russlanddeutsche) und (leider in noch immer zu geringem Maße) zur Literatur der Roma und Sinti. Mag dies vielleicht auch der geringeren Verfügbarkeit von derartigen Werken geschuldet sein, so erscheint es doch bemerkenswert, dass die deutschsprachige Literatur der Roma und Sinti nach wie vor von allen germanistischen Disziplinen marginalisiert, wenn nicht gar ignoriert wird-obwohl diese Bevölkerungsgruppen seit dem Mittelalter im deutschsprachigen Raum gegenwärtig sind. Dabei s...

Hinter der öffentlichen Debatte um die sprachliche Vielfalt in Deutschland verbirgt sich oft ein Sprachverständnis, in dem der Begriff Sprache anstelle von Inhalten oder ethnischen oder sozialen Zuordnungen verwendet wird, oder der Wunsch nach der Messbarkeit der persönlichen Integrationsleistung des Zuwanderers oder der Zuwanderin die Sprache zum "Schlüssel" instrumentalisiert. Diesem problematischen Sprachverständnis setze ich eine Beschreibung der gesellschaftlichen Mehrsprachigkeit in Deutschland und der daraus bereits gezogenen bildungspolitischen Konsequenzen entgegen, gemeint als Beitrag zur Entspannung der Diskussion um die sprachliche Vielfalt in Deutschland. Verhandlung von Sprache im Kontext von Migration und Integration: Vier Beispiele Erstes Beispiel: In Berlin-Neukölln hat vor einigen Jahren ein Laden für islamische Bekleidung aufgemacht. Das ist an sich nichts Besonderes; diese Läden gibt es allerorten, meist erkennt man sie gar nicht, weil sie recht unscheinbar sind und nur auf Türkisch oder in arabischer Schrift eine kleine Inschrift darauf hinweist, was verkauft wird. Bei diesem Laden war es etwas anderes: "Islamische Boutique" stand in großen Lettern über dem Eingangund zwischen den Schaufenstern war die Koransure 24:31 zitiert, die den Frauen gebietet, sich gegenüber dem Mann zu verhüllen: in deutscher Sprache, auf großen Lettern, Gold auf Schwarz. Heinz Buschkowsky, bekannter (inzwischen ehemaliger) Bezirksbürgermeister von Neukölln, fand das problematisch. Mit der Koransure werde, ich zitiere aus der Berliner Zeitung vom 5. September 2011, eine "sehr orthodoxe Sichtweise des Korans plakativ in den öffentlichen Raum getragen", und das sei der Integration "nicht dienlich". Dass das Koranzitat in deutscher Sprache widergegeben wird, das setzt für ihn "noch einen drauf". Nicht dass Deutsch verwendet wird, ist das Problem, sondern was auf Deutsch verhandelt wird. Daraus spricht die enttäuschte Hoffnung, dass mit dem Sprachwechsel zum Deutschen bei den Zugewanderten möglichst auch eine Akkulturalisierung einhergehe.

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The purpose of the paper is to enrich the policy discourse in Serbia on one of the most striking features of primary and secondary education: the high proportion of students who are failing in many different ways. The findings are mainly based on international comparative analysis that leads to the distinction among three European equity patterns: compensative education systems that are characterized by a high level of equity (low impact of background, weak selection) and high quality (above average student performance), selective education systems, in which low level of equity and high selection results in a below average overall student performance and attritive education systems (to which Serbia belongs together with most SouthEast European countries) that are characterized by high inequities and relatively poor average quality that at the same time results in a high proportion of failing students both in terms of participation and learning outcomes. The paper attempts to orient ...

This chapter explores the upward social mobility trajectories, and the corollary prices of them for those 45, first-in-family college educated Roma in Hungary who come from socially disadvantaged and marginalised family and community background. We argue that among the academically high-achieving participants of our study the most common upward mobility trajectory, contrary to the common belief of assimilation, is their distinctive minority mobility path which leads to their selective acculturation into the majority society. This distinctive incorporation into the mainstream is close to what the related academic scholarship calls the 'minority culture of mobility'. The three main elements of this distinct mobility trajectory among the Roma are (1) The construction of a Roma middle class identity that takes belonging to the Roma community as a source of pride, in contrast of the widespread racial stereotypes in Hungary (and all over Europe) that are closely tied to the percep...

Dieser Beitrag ist ein Pladoyer fur die Aufnahme von Daten uber die Verwendung von Sprachen in schulbezogene Untersuchungen und Statistiken. Vor allem gilt diese Forderung dann, wenn in solchen Untersuchungen die Verwendung von Sprachen als Indikator fur andere Fragestellungen oder als Parameter fur Bildungsplanung gesehen wird.

This study’s purpose was to examine SES-related mathematics achievement gaps among Turkish middle-school students as compared to achievement gaps in the European Union (EU) countries. The data used belonged to 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). The sample of the countries included Turkey and the EU countries that provided the necessary variables: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, and Slovenia. Results showed substantial achievement gaps between low- and highSES students in Turkey. Correlations between students’ SES levels and their mathematics achievement were the largest in Turkey compared to the sample EU countries. Among the sample countries, only Hungary had as large or even somewhat larger disparities as Turkey between low- and high-SES students’ mathematics achievement.

Mentoring, Counselling and Mediator Models to Improve the Educational Situation of Sinti and Roma in Germany (zusammen mit Natascha Hofmann). In: International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 5/2018. Verfügbar unter: http://www.ide-journal.org/article/2018-volume-5-number-1-mentoring-counselling-and-mediator-models-to-improve-the-educational-situation-of-sinti-and-roma-in-germany/

Die historische Forschung hat der gesellschaftlichen Organisation des Aufwachsens und der Rolle von Heranwachsenden erst vergleichsweise spät Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten haben sich Jugend-und Kindheitsgeschichte jedoch zu dynamischen Forschungsbereichen entwickelt. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über wichtige Felder, methodische Zugänge und neuere Tendenzen der Forschung und arbeitet Widersprüche von Jugend und Kindheit in der Zeitgeschichte heraus.

... London bombs Robin Richardson ... The journalists and politicians mentioned above would maintain that they are poles away from the BNP. There was nevertheless an eerie similarity between BNP propaganda and the musings of certain mainstream commentators. ...

PISA or the Programme for International Student Assessment of OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) is one of the most famous educational events of the last decades. Thousands of students from sixty-two different countries (the OECD countries plus country partners which signed a contract with this institution) have been recently involved in its tests for the 2009 PISA (the fourth report of this kind was presented in December 2010) (see Fig. 1).

The aim of this paper is to define to which conditions Sinti and Roma in Germany are subjected to in these days. For this reason, the following guiding question is posed: in which way were the victims of the Porajmos denied the acknowledgement of their state as persecuted and what parallels this in the context of the European Union's eastern enlargement? An analysis of literature showed that post-1945 as well as post-1990 antiziganism played a crucial part in political decisions concerning Sinti and Roma until today.

The authors of this paper were participants in both the International Teacher Leadership project and the APREME (Advancing the Participation and Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Education) project from which research evidence is drawn. The analysis highlights the role of teachers as agents of change and shows how teachers can be empowered to address major social and educational problems. The linkages between the two projects enabled the researchers and activists to develop strategies and techniques for supporting teacher leadership. The paper shows how teachers were able to mobilise communities in pursuit of social justice by drawing minority families into the life of the school which contributed to overcoming cultural and ethnic conflict.

Richard Florida, an American theorist has argued that in the future we need to develop three things: Talent, Technology and Tolerance. Using this framework to inform our discussion, we examine key issues concerning policy and practice to support education for the future. This will be informed by perspectives drawing on British and Irish contexts and what these two States tell us about current issues. Global concerns over raising the academic attainment of all children for employability; responding to cultural diversity in the classroom; and having access to knowledge which informs young peoples choices are the three underpinning themes. We problematise aspirations contained in education rhetoric and suggest an agenda which reflects a flexible, equitable and imaginative way forward in providing for future generations of learners.

Foster care institutions are badly understaffed and operate on the lowest expected standards in terms of human resources in Hungary. In many cases, child protection personnel working with children in foster care do not have the necessary qualifications, and even those that do are often so overloaded with tasks that they cannot routinely engage in meaningful social interactions with the children. This paper introduces a unique and easily adaptable model of volunteer ,,work in university settings that aims to improve the situation of children in foster care. The Students for Children Volunteer Programme was founded in 2010 in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pécs, Hungary, and is now part of the curriculum there both as an elective course and as a cross-faculty programme. From the outset, the primary goal of this initiative has been to improve the situation of children in foster care through student mentoring by empowering them to manage everyday challenges and develop meaningf...