Perception of Roma people by prospective secondary school teachers in the context of generalized ethnicization of problems related to non-assimilated part of the Roma population
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences |
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| Web | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187704281203978X |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.516 |
| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | attitude; ethnicization; inappropriate generalization; popular discourse; Roma people; secondary school teachers; social exclusion; symbolic exclusion |
| Description | The paper deals with the perception of Roma people by Czech students of education expected to perform future work with students where it is necessary to create equal opportunities for all students, regardless of affiliation to any group. In this short research we tried to capture the pedagogy students' degree of ethnicization of problems associated with the non-assimilated part of the Roma population. These values were compared to similar studies that capture the attitudes towards the Roma people not in terms of certain occupational groups, but in terms of population of the Czech Republic. Our research found significant differences in perception of the Roma in cases where the respondent evaluates the Roma simulacrum which s/he created by means of generalized ethnicization of problematic situations associated with the Roma and disseminated through the popular discourse of the Czech population, compared to cases in which the Roma are evaluated after a previous separation of character features which they are attributed by popular discourse, regardless of whether they are Roma who have adopted the values of the majority or not. |