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Peer reviewedJordan, Elizabeth – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2001
Investigated interactions between Travellers (historically known as Gypsies or Tinkers) and school policy toward such children in Europe. Reviews the mismatch between Traveller cultures and their schooling experience. Notes that schools ignore and devalue the children's home learning of interdependence and independence and offer only learned…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
