Mademoiselle Gravier and Equal Access to Education: Success and Boundaries of European Integration

The article was prepared as part of the project: Promoting equal access to quality education for Roma children, implemented by Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues in Europe. The study consists of three parts. The first one concerns the basic information related to the analysis of the current state of knowledge on equal access to education of Roma children in Poland, the second – indicates the current statistical data on the education of Roma children, and the final part, which is a summary – presents the results of research and recommendations for practice in to improve communication between Roma parents and officials and teaching staff. The pilot study was aimed at identifying problems related to equal access to education of Roma children at the preschool and kindergarten level. They were conducted in Silesia – in Chorzów and Bytom – using the method of a structured interview. An interview with school principals, officials, and Roma’s parents revealed a significant need to build a bridge based on trust and fluent communication.

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Die gestremde as werknemer: Werkgewerperspektief

South African Journal of Business Management ◽

10.4102/sajbm.v19i4.989 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 175-181

Author(s):

Rene Uys ◽

N. P. Du Preez

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Labour Market ◽

Response Rate ◽

Self Determination ◽

Equal Access ◽

Access To Education ◽

Research Project ◽

Equal Chance ◽

Handicapped People ◽

Education Training

An extensive research project with a response rate of 35% was undertaken under various companies in South Africa. The purpose of the project was to determine the attitude of employers in the open labour market towards disableds as employees. The researchers also wanted to determine the extend whereto disableds are employed within the labour market, as well as what their application and work successes are. In addition the research will focus on the various disabilities, and persons' abilities, training and expectations. The viewpoint of the research project is that today in the era of self-determination handicapped people do not want to be hired because they are handicapped. Nor do they want to be denied a job because of their handicap. Rather, they want to be treated as any other person. They want an equal chance to demonstrate their abilities and to live up to their potential. They want equal access to education, training and employment. They want to prove that they are people who can do the work and they want others to stop thinking about their handicapping condition.'n Omvangryke navorsingsprojek, waarop die responskoers 35% was, is in samewerking met ondernemings in Suid-Afrika gedoen. Die doel was om te bepaal wat die gesindheid van die werkgewer in die ope-arbeidsmark teenoor die gestremde as werknemer is. Die navorsers wou ook bepaal tot watter mate gestremdes in die ope-arbeidsmark in diens geneem word, die mate van hulle aanwending en wat hul werkprestasies is. Daar word gepoog om te bepaal wat die onderskeie gestremdhede en persone se vermoens, vaardighede, opleiding en bepaalde verwagtinge is. Die uitgangspunt van die navorsingsprojek is dat die gestremde in vandag se 'gelykegeleenthede-omgewing' nie in diens geneem wil word omdat hulle gestremd is nie, maar hulle wil ook nie 'n pos geweier word as gevolg van hul gestremdheid nie. Hulle wil eerder op dieselfde wyse as alle ander werknemers hanteer word. Hulle wit gelyke geleenthede he om hulle vermoens en vaardighede uit te leef en om hulle potensiaal ten voile te benut. Hulle wit gelyke geleenthede tot opvoeding, opleiding en indiensname he. Hulle wil bewys dat hulle wel die werk kan doen en hulle wil he dat ander moet ophou konsentreer op hul gestremdheid en dit wat hulle nie kan doen nie.

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Educación superior sin barreras: La accesibilidad de las universidades

Encounters in Theory and History of Education ◽

10.24908/eoe-ese-rse.v6i0.628 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Author(s):

Carmen Alba Pastor

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Students With Disabilities ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Equal Access ◽

Online Information ◽

Access To Higher Education ◽

Access To Education ◽

Low Degree ◽

Information And Communication

Higher Education institutions have developed online information services and degrees as an echo of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) incidence in all society fields. Equal access to education is a fundamental right; but equal access to higher education for people with disabilities is far from being achieved yet. To this inequality has to be added the difficulty of some groups to participate in the information society, the so called infoexclusion. The short number of students with disabilities in higher education makes evident the presence of barriers for this people to get into this educational level. One of them is the low degree of accessibility to digital services and studies offered by the Universities, something that can be considered a new kind of segregation.

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School Zoning Policy and Equalization of Education Access for Poor Students in Yogyakarta City

KnE Social Sciences ◽

10.18502/kss.v6i2.9992 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mami Hajaroh ◽

Riana Nurhayati ◽

Fajar Sidiq ◽

Amrih Setyo Raharjo ◽

Ebni Sholikhah

Keyword(s):

High Schools ◽

Central Government ◽

Junior High ◽

City Government ◽

Junior High Schools ◽

Equal Access ◽

Access To Education ◽

The Impact ◽

Yogyakarta City

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of school zoning policies on equal access to education for underprivileged students in Yogyakarta City. This research was motivated by the low quality and inadequate access to education for underprivileged students in Indonesia. Starting in 2018, the Central Government implemented a school zoning policy to improve the quality and equitable access to education for underprivileged families in every region. This research was carried out in 16 State Junior High Schools in Yogyakarta City. This was the research location because it was one of the national pilot areas chosen by the Central Government. A quantitative approach was used to evaluate secondary school data before and after the implementation of the zoning policy. The results showed that: (1) there was an increase in access to education for underprivileged students; and (2) the imbalance in the quality of favorite and non-favorite schools did not change and this was influenced by the economic conditions of each region. It can be concluded that the school zoning policy increased equal access to education for underprivileged students, but the next challenge for the Yogyakarta City Government is ensuring equal quality of education across junior high schools. Keywords: school zoning policy, equal access, junior high school, underprivileged student

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Commonwealth Caribbean Disability Access Policies: Access to Educational Institutions and Libraries

IASL Annual Conference Proceedings ◽

10.29173/iasl8292 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Paulette Stewart ◽

Mark-Jeffery Dean

Keyword(s):

Document Analysis ◽

Disabled Persons ◽

Equal Access ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Access To Education ◽

Human Right ◽

Disabled Students ◽

Caribbean Country ◽

Commonwealth Caribbean ◽

Access Policies

Disability Acts are aimed at providing disabled students with both physical and intellectual access to education. The research takes into account UNESCO’s mission and Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) that education as a fundamental human right lies at the heart of equal access. The document analysis approach was used to select six Caribbean countries’ disability Acts to examine the kind of access indicated for educational institutions and libraries. The roles of the stakeholders who are expected to implement the Acts were also examined. Additionally, document analysis was used to determine if what was seen in these Acts were actually being implemented. The disability Acts selected were those from a Commonwealth Caribbean country that developed national policies or acts on disability and that the Acts had specific articles on access to education for disabled persons. It was discovered that the clauses with regards to access and stakeholders’ role in implementing the Acts were very limited. There is also a significant gap between what is written in the Acts and what is actually taking place. One recommendation that was suggested was that each country treat their Act as a priority as equal access is a human right as emphasized by UNESCO.

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Women in the Writings of the Fathers: Language, Belief, and Reality

Studies in Church History ◽

10.1017/s0424208400011979 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 1-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Graham Gould

Keyword(s):

Equal Access ◽

Access To Education ◽

Church Fathers ◽

Moral Goodness ◽

Moral Qualities ◽

Practical Effect ◽

Good Wife ◽

Intellectual Environment ◽

The Church ◽

Moral Capacity

The Church Fathers inherited from their social and intellectual environment a long tradition of debate about the physical, moral, and intellectual capacities of women. It would be an oversimplification to say that the uniform teaching of ancient philosophers and rhetoricians was that women were in every respect naturally inferior to men. Plato, for one, defended the view that moral goodness is the same for women as for men; the fact that they perform different tasks—the duties of a citizen in the case of a (free) man, and of a good wife, directing her household in obedience to her husband, in the case of a woman—does not mean that the same moral qualities of justice and temperance are not required of both. In his Republic, a radical programme for the restructuring of traditional society, Plato advocates equal access to education for women and an equality of opportunity for the intellectually able, regardless of sex, to rise to leading roles in the administration of the State. He continues to believe that most women will be inferior to most men at important tasks; but ‘it was something to have it said that sex is not relevant to natural ability and moral capacity’, and it is possible to detect the influence of subsequent philosophers who agreed with Plato in forming ‘an increasing belief in the competence and trustworthiness of women’ in financial and political affairs, even if the belief was to have little practical effect in changing socially-accepted roles.

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