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Education and Ethnic Minorities
Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Education of a minority is at the same time both a way of integrating the minority into society and a means of protecting its specificity. The conflictiveness or harmony of these two functions depends also on cultural policies which attempt either to assimilate minority cultures, to transform them into a new quality in contact with others (the melting pot), to recognise them as a special entity (multiculturalism), or to reaffirm them as an active part of society which lasts and enriches the society itself (interculturalism). All these policies are reflected in the educational system (and in the school), which, as an expression of society and a socialisational factor, effects the formation of (individual and group) identity. The minority group differs from others in the light of its identity. By providing an insight into past knowledge (on minority education), by determining the basic concepts (identity, the minority, individual educational strategy), and by offering concrete experiences (from the past Croatian educational system), this paper aims at providing a possible basis for a sociological approach in regard to education and ethnicity (in the context of the national/ethnic minority question).
Ključne riječi
education; ethnic minority; cultural policy; ethnicity; interculturalism
Hrčak ID:
127353
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.1991.
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