The educational integration of Roma children and young people continues to present challenges to member states. These updated guidelines not only provide the reader with an overview of related Council of Europe policy documents but also address the gap between policy and classroom practice by presenting the pedagogical approach and findings from the Organisation’s Romani-Plurilingual Policy Experimentation, which took place in three member states (Greece, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia) over three academic years, from 2022 to 2025. Five general principles to guide the educational inclusion of Roma as well as of learners from other linguistic and cultural minorities are identified, based on the Council of Europe’s concept of plurilingual and intercultural education and the language learner as an autonomous social agent.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. THE EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION OF ROMA CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE: COUNCIL OF EUROPE POLICY
2.THE INTEGRATION OF MINORITIES: A TWO- WAY PROCESS
3. THE VARIABLE STATUS OF THE ROMANI LANGUAGE IN ROMA COMMUNITIES AND THE VARIABLE PROFICIENCY OF ROMA CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE LANGUAGE OF SCHOOLING
4. FROM POLICY TO CLASSROOM PRACTICE
5. THE (LANGUAGE) LEARNER AS AN AUTONOMOUS SOCIAL AGENT
6. PLURILINGUALISM AS AN OVERARCHING EDUCATIONAL GOAL
7. FIVE PRINCIPLES TO GUIDE THE EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION OF ROMA CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
8. RESULTS OF THE ROMANI-PLURILINGUAL POLICY EXPERIMENTATION (2022-2025)