Abstract
No quadro europeu de uma aposta estratégica em sociedades cada vez mais escolarizadas e inclusivas, o desafio da presença de diferentes culturas nas escolas requer a implementação de políticas que promovam a não discriminação. No entanto, os ciganos Portugueses constituem-se ainda como um grupo cultural e étnico aparentemente imune aos objetivos destas políticas, em virtude do enorme preconceito social e histórico que impende sobre os seus membros. Neste sentido, foi realizada uma investigação visando colocar à prova um conjunto de possibilidades relativas à melhor forma de acolher estudantes ciganos na escola pública. Foram inquiridos 700 alunos não ciganos de 3 escolas do ensino médio da Grande Lisboa. Seguindo a perspetiva de uma sociologia eminentemente compreensiva, foi mobilizado um questionário baseado em cenários com o objetivo de captar junto dos estudantes não ciganos a forma mais conveniente da escola acolher estudantes ciganos discriminados numa outra escola. Os resultados mostram que, para a maioria dos inquiridos, os ciganos devem ser socializados através de procedimentos táticos, ou individualizados por meio de dispositivos morais ou funcionais de modo a serem convenientemente assimilados.
Within the European framework of strategic orientation towards increasingly schooled and inclusive societies, the challenge of
the presence of different cultures in schools requires the implementation of policies that promote non-discrimination and provide
effective means of coordinating diversity. However, the Portuguese Gypsy are still a cultural and ethnic group apparently immune
to the aims of these policies, due to the enormous social and historical prejudices which fall upon their members. In this sense, a
survey was conducted to test a set of possibilities on how best to integrate Gypsy students in public schools. In this context, 700
non-Gypsy students from three secondary schools in Greater Lisbon were surveyed. In the perspective of an eminently
interpretative sociology, closely linked to a theory of semantic action, a scenario-based questionnaire was used to find out among non-gypsy students the most practical way for schools to accommodate discriminated gypsy students in another school. The
results show that, for the respondents, the Gypsy population must be socialized through tactical procedures or individualized
through moral or functional devices in order to be assimilated.
Within the European framework of strategic orientation towards increasingly schooled and inclusive societies, the challenge of
the presence of different cultures in schools requires the implementation of policies that promote non-discrimination and provide
effective means of coordinating diversity. However, the Portuguese Gypsy are still a cultural and ethnic group apparently immune
to the aims of these policies, due to the enormous social and historical prejudices which fall upon their members. In this sense, a
survey was conducted to test a set of possibilities on how best to integrate Gypsy students in public schools. In this context, 700
non-Gypsy students from three secondary schools in Greater Lisbon were surveyed. In the perspective of an eminently
interpretative sociology, closely linked to a theory of semantic action, a scenario-based questionnaire was used to find out among non-gypsy students the most practical way for schools to accommodate discriminated gypsy students in another school. The
results show that, for the respondents, the Gypsy population must be socialized through tactical procedures or individualized
through moral or functional devices in order to be assimilated.
Translated title of the contribution | How to integrate Gypsy students in Public School? : From recognition of alterity to plurality of discriminatory arrangements |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 635-651 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Vértices |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 25 Aug 2021 |
Keywords
- Questionário por cenários
- Semântica da ação
- Ciganos Portugueses
- Estudantes do ensino médio
- Grande Lisboa
- Scenarios-based questionnaire
- Action semantics
- Portuguese Gypsies
- High school students
- Greater Lisbon