There are many research data that prove the correlation between poverty and bad results in education. However, deprivation in education is only one dimension of social exclusion. When children, who experience exclusion in educational system, become adults, they are also more exposed to exclusion in employment, political patrticipation, etc. Often, the vicious circle of social exclusion continues from one generation to another. One of socially excluded social groups, who face deprivation also in educational system, are Roma children. The article focuses on some dimensions, which help understand their deprivation in the filed of education, and also focuses on some suggestions, how can exsisting school system tackle the marginalization of Roma children.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 1612412The current contribution focuses on evaluation research as a process of learning and development for practice, by looking at conditions of collaboration between practice and research in two examples. We will exemplify that learning from evaluation in complex program settings is related to the nature of the collaboration between social work agencies and researchers. Findings are based on two similar cases of evaluation research for interagency collaboration in Germany and Slovenia. Results show that a symbiotic collaboration between research and practice enhances the learning and development potential for practice, but also that the balance between organising the collaboration process and leaving room for experimental and ad hoc decisions needs to be guarded. Both advantages and disadvantages of planning and stability need to be taken into account when doing practitioner evaluation research.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 3632229The achievement had important socio-economic effects for four reasons: first, the author of the paper was also co-organizer of the international conference where it was presented; second, the conference was attended by professors and researchers from ex-Yugoslav countries who are experts in the field, as well as researchers from Austria and UK; third, the conference was interdisciplinary and trans-institutional - in addition to researchers at Faculty of Social Work, the presenters were relevant experts from Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Art (SAZU), Peace Institute and Institute for Ethic Studies, as well as two other social sciences faculties. One of the outcomes of the conference was publication of relevant scientific papers from the conference in the indexed international journal Two Homelands (SAZU) in the autumn 2011. The conference co-organizer and author presented a paper focused on the mental health of members of ethnic minorities in current migration flows. The author presented an interesting ambivalence: today's migrant workers are pathologised, but simultaneously, they are migrant care workers - the ones doing care work for health and mental health of populations in economically developed world. The author analyses a few ethnographic examples of this paradox and advocated for an anti-discriminatory orientation in this field.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 3613285