Search results for "Anthropology of Education"

Childhood in a rom/gypsy camp in southern-Italy:an anthropological perspective.

2007

The object of the study is the Rom/gypsy/ camp in Palermo, Sicily, in the south of Italy, where three groups of so-called “gypsies” or "travellers” live together; they originally came from the Balkans and have been settled in this zone for twenty years. Out of a population of about 300 individuals, as many as 55 children go to 7 different schools. The study is carried out using the anthropological method of participant observation. The aim of the research, which is still going on, is to monitor the progress of their schooling and to study their parents’ roles; particular attention is given to the fundamental interplay of relationships and socioeducational intervention in the capable hands o…

The analysis of migration flows between anthropological and educational processes

2011