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Forray, R. Katalin – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2021
According to our initial assumption, there would be two characteristic strategies for Romani catching up. One strategy is to lift the Romanies out of poverty and bring their living conditions closer to the average living conditions of the majority society. According to the other strategy, Romanies create a national minority in the majority…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Civil Rights, Poverty, Living Standards
Klaus, Sarah – Open Society Foundations, 2020
Since the early 1990s, the Open Society Foundations have supported early childhood development, recognizing it as a prerequisite for sustainable political and social change--with a focus not only on young children, but on parents, caregivers, and the wider community. This report commemorates the Open Society Early Childhood Program, which, from…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Social Change, Childrens Rights
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Ruzicka, Michal – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
The aim of the article is to contribute to existing research and debates on social change associated with the post-socialist transformation in Eastern and Central Europe. It does so by drawing attention to and examining the diversity of ways in which such change has been lived through and reflected upon by members of Roma (Gypsy) communities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Rural Areas
Chisholm, Lynne, Ed.; And Others – 1990
Written for a 1988 bilateral United Kingdom-West German conference, the chapters in this volume examine childhood and youth as socially constructed life stages within the context of contemporary social and cultural change. Following the editors' introduction are 14 papers: "What Does the Future Hold? Youth and Sociocultural Change in the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Welfare, Children, Cultural Differences
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Extra, Guus; Vallen, Ton – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Reviews demographic and linguistic consequences of recent processes of migration and minority group influx in Western Europe and describes the case of the Netherlands to illustrate these effects. Highlights first- and second-language studies of immigrant and ethnic minority groups and notes resulting major demographic trends in Dutch society and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Pluralism, Demography, Dutch
Perotti, Antonio – 1991
This report surveys the steps taken by the Council of Europe's Council for Cultural Cooperation (CDCC) to combat the increasing problem of intolerance and xenophobia in Western Europe. The outbreak of xenophobic sentiment is attributed to two facts: large immigrant communities from outside Europe have settled permanently in Europe, and there has…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Cultural Education, Educational Objectives, Ethnic Bias