EUCE University of Alberta Workshop March 26-27, 2015 Policy, Inclusion and Education Rights of Roma Children: Challenges and successes in the EU and North America Alumni House, University of Alberta 11515 Saskatchewan Drive Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2C4 Day One Thursday, March 26 9:30-10:00 Morning coffee and muffins 10:00-10:30 Welcome, Opening Comments, and Introductions with Dr. Lori Thorlakson 10:30-11:15 Anna Kirova and Larry Prochner, University of Alberta, Canada The Issue of Other-ness in Pedagogical Theory and Practice: The Case of Roma 11:15-12:00 Vicki Macris, University of Alberta, Canada Romani People’s resistance to mainstream schooling: A focus on Romani girls’ access to state-funded education in Greece. 12:00-1:30 Hot Lunch 1:30-2:15 Andrew Ryder, Bristol University and Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary Collaborative Relationships between Schools and Roma, Gypsy and Traveller Communities at the Margins and Transformative Change 2:15-3:00 Yordanka Valkanova, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Dreaming the impossible and living through it: Slovakian Roma children’s ‘perezhivanie’ of inclusionary education in Britain. 3:00-3:15 Coffee Break 3:15-4:00 Gina Csanyi-Robah, Canadian Romani Alliance, Toronto & Vancouver, Canada 'Safe' Education: Romani Children and Youth of Hungarian Asylum seekers in Canada (via Skype) 1 EUCE University of Alberta Workshop March 26-27, 2015 5:30-7:00 Evening Reception hosted by the Faculty of Education at Alumni House Day Two Friday, March 27 8:30-9:00 Morning coffee and muffins 9:00-9:45 Christian Brüggemann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany A Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005–2015: An analysis of persistent educational segregation (via Skype) 9:45-10:30 Melanie H. Ram, California State University, Fresno, USA International Policy and Roma Education in Europe: Essential Inputs or Centralized Distractions? 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break 10:45-11:30 Mathias Urban, University of Roehampton, UK Suffiently well-informed and seriously concerned? European Union policy responses to marginalisation, structural racism and institutionalised exclusion in early childhood 11:30-12:15 Jan Chovanec, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Migrant minorities in the EU: discursive construction of the immigrant ‘other’ in the media 12:15-1:30 Hot Lunch 1:30-2:45 Student Panel Anya Zoledziowski, University of Alberta Roma policy in Poland Chase McGowan, University of Alberta Roma Education: The effect of school segregation 2 EUCE University of Alberta Workshop March 26-27, 2015 Josephine Doerfler, University of Alberta German minority policy towards Roma: The educational situation of Roma living in Germany 2:45-4:15 Roundtable Policy Discussion & Light Dinner Evening: 5:00-8:30 Film Screening and Reception Telus Centre, Room 150 & Atrium, University of Alberta 5:00-8:30pm Musical Performance & Film Screening 5:00-5:30 Original music performance by: Micheal Butch, lead singer of the Gypsy Rebels 5:30-6:00 Introduction by Dr. Chantal Hilaire and Micheal Butch 6:00-8:00 Film Screening: The Shape of a Heart: A Gypsy Love Story Produced by: David Murray, Chantal Hilaire, Micheal Butch Directed by: David Murray Researcher: Chantal Hilaire Ph.D When the Toronto Romani community undergoes a baffling rise in drug use and divorce Romani leader Micheal Butch is on the case. When his own family begins to break apart Micheal must search for answers in the past. “THE SHAPE OF A HEART – A Gypsy Love Story” is a long form vérité documentary chronicling Micheal Butch’s struggle with the changes taking place within himself and his community. Filmed over three years the documentary is an intensely intimate portrait of a family caught up in the shifting tides of desires and fears within the Romani community of Toronto. The documentary is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork among the Rom Kalderas of Paris, Toronto and New York. 3