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Educational Environment – A Social Project of Support for the Social Development of a Roma Child

Margarita Koleva * m_koleva@swu.bg * ORCID: 0000-0002-1980-3669 * ResearcherID: AAS-3124-2020
South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Faculty of Pedagogy, Blagoevgrad, BULGARIA

Open Journal for Educational Research, 2020, 4(1), 67-76 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojer.0401.05067k
Received: 25 February 2020 ▪ Accepted: 19 April  2020 ▪ Published Online: 15 July 2020

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ABSTRACT:
In the Bulgarian public space social distances and stereotypes regarding the Roma ethnicity are still difficult to overcome. This process’ impact on the social development of the Roma child is an indisputable fact that has negative social implications when the child joins the school community. Predicting and overcoming these consequences implies conceptual researches amongst basic and innovative resources of teaching practice. The educational environment and its components have a social supporting effect in view of the permanent processes of social development of the child from the Roma ethnic group. There is no doubt that the teacher and the children from the class community have a stimulating role in this process.

KEY WORDS: childhood, educational environment, social development, Roma child, educational process, pedagogical interactions, Roma community, social and cultural identity.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Margarita Koleva, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Faculty of Pedagogy, Ivan Mihaylov Str. 66, Blagoevgrad, BULGARIA, e-mail: m_koleva@swu.bg.

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