Child of Many Worlds: Focus on the Problem of Ethnic Minorities

The sense of isolation and even rejection is well known to people from minority groups, including ethnic minorities. When it comes to children from ethnic minorities, the quick identification of the problem by teachers is of great importance. Anyway the problem must be realised not only by the educators and parents of the children of the minority, but also by the parents representing the cultural majority. The presented approach to the problem of ethnic minorities is not only oriented towards the social exclusion of the ethnic minorities, but tries to create a comprehensive strategy for dealing with «new faces of exclusion». The authors describe ethnic minorities in the countries of the Visegrád Group and try to define their cultural and national identity from the perspective of intercultural psychology.

Auteur

Hanna Liberska is a Professor at the Institute of Psychology at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland). Her research concentrates on human development, identity, family and historical transformations.
Marzanna Farnicka is a psychologist and an Assistant Professor at the University of Zielona Góra (Poland). Her research concentrates on conditionings of human aggression (including school and family), coping with stress (especially from family perspective) and supporting children in the education environment.

Contenu

Contents: Hanna Liberska: The Wellbeing of Children: Its Source and How It is Affected by a Sense of Exclusion and Acculturation - Vera Kosiková/Hanna Liberska: The Problem of Minorities as a Subject of Intercultural Psychology - Lajos Hüse/Erzsébet Balogh/Nóra Barnucz/Mihály Fónai/Erika Zolnai: The Discourse of Social Exclusion and its Benefits for the Majority - Vera Kosiková/Hanna Liberska: National Minorities with a Focus on the Roma Problem and its Historical and Social-Psychological Aspects - Mihály Fónai/Erzsébet Balogh/Nóra Barnucz/Lajos Hüse/Erika Zolnai: The Roma Population of Small Towns - Simona Musilová/Jana Minhová: Crime and its Victims amongst Members of Different Nationalities - Grazyna Gajewska: Children's Sense of Safety under Different Forms of Care at School and Where They Live - Erika Zolna/Erzsébet Balogh/Nóra Barnucz/Mihály Fónai/Lajos Hüse: Possibility, Challenge or Barrier? Tasks of Public Education: The International Outlook and the Hungarian Situation - Bronislava Kasácová/Sona Kariková: The Educational Requirements of Teachers' Assistants Working with Roma Pupils: The Opinions of In-Service and University Teachers (a Comparison) - Marzanna Farnicka/Hanna Liberska/Vera Kosiková/Vladimira Lovasová/Dariusz Freundenreich: A New Tool in the Fight against Social Exclusion: The Questionnaire of School Life (QSL) - Urszula Gembara: Creativity Training with the Use of Drawings in Counteracting Peer Rejection - Tatiana Maciejewska: Art Therapy as a Method of Working with Children under the Threat of Exclusion - Marzanna Farnicka/Hanna Liberska: **A Child of Many Worlds: A New Meaning of Acculturation.