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Roma Identity and Ritual in the Classroom

The Institutional Embeddedness of Ethnicity

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Authors:
  1. Jana Obrovská

    1. Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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  • Examines the perceptions of identity of minority youth in the classroom
  • Explores the reality and dynamics of interethnic relationships in the classroom
  • Illuminates the lived perspectives of the students themselves in post-socialist classrooms

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Roma Education in Post-socialist Classrooms: Between Segregation and Inclusion

    • Jana Obrovská
    Pages 1-25

  3. Everyday Ethnicity and Ritual

    • Jana Obrovská
    Pages 27-58

  4. The Methodological Aspects of Educational Ethnography in Ethnically Diverse Classrooms

    • Jana Obrovská
    Pages 59-82

  5. The World of the Town and the School: The Institutional Embeddedness of Ethnicity

    • Jana Obrovská
    Pages 83-99

  6. Ethnicity in Breaktime Interaction Rituals

    • Jana Obrovská
    Pages 101-143

  7. Ethnicity in Classtime Rituals

    • Jana Obrovská
    Pages 145-169

  8. The Future of Roma Education in the Czech Republic: From Homogenization to Diversification?

    • Jana Obrovská
    Pages 171-191

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 193-199
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About this book

This book addresses the dynamics of interethnic relationships in ethnically mixed classrooms in the Czech Republic. The classroom is a space in which the boundaries and meanings of facets of identity such as ethnicity, class and gender are negotiated on a daily basis: using rich ethnographic data, the author grounds the analysis in a novel theoretical framework which uses the traditional concept of ritual to examine peer cultures. Highlighting the perspectives of the students themselves, their own peer cultures and the agency of the minority youth present in the classroom, the book reinforces the idea that the dynamics of peer culture can be the scene for successful peer inclusion strategies as well as a stage for the reproduction of inequalities. The author offers a rich array of data from post-socialist classrooms, which are almost invisible in the dominant debates surrounding ethnicity. This revelatory book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of social anthropology, the sociology of education and race and ethnicity in education, as well as practitioners working with minority youth.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Jana Obrovská

About the author

Jana Obrovská is Assistant Professor at the Department of Education and Junior Researcher at the Institute for Research in Inclusive Education at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Her research interests centre around the sociology of education and school ethnography.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Roma Identity and Ritual in the Classroom

  • Book Subtitle: The Institutional Embeddedness of Ethnicity

  • Authors: Jana Obrovská

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94514-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94513-2Published: 02 October 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06865-3Published: 05 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94514-9Published: 21 September 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 199

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Ethnicity in Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education

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