CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Szaniszló, Anna |
|---|---|
| Title | The Role of Non-Cognitive Skills in the Successful Integration of Roma Students into the Hungarian Public Education System |
| Summary | Despite the efforts of the integration program in Hungary from 2002-2010 aimed at eliminating the educational gap between Roma and non-Roma students, that gap persists. This thesis seeks to explain why the integration program did not bring a breakthrough for Roma students. At the same time, it aims to examine whether the system of methodological and pedagogical practices of the integration program that already proved to be effective, are presently applied and whether their application show correlation with students’ non-cognitive skill level. The research focuses on non-cognitive skills due to their special role in educational performance attributed to them by US researchers, Cunha, Heckman and Rubinstein. According to them, such non-cognitive skills as self-esteem, self-efficacy, and motivation are catalysts of cognitive skill development and the level of these skills are predictors of educational attainment. The research examines and compares two schools in a ghetto like urban area of the capital of Hungary, Budapest. It focuses on the extent to which the methodological and pedagogical system of the integration program is applied in the two schools and whether non-cognitive skill level of students show correlation with it. Data analysis shows correlation between the level of non-cognitive skills and teachers’ attitude, but not with teaching methodology, since that did not differ significantly in the two schools. This finding shows with great power the impact of a positive, encouraging, and confirming teacher attitude on students’ skill development. At the same time, these results underline the important role of teacher attitude and training in future integration programs. |
| Supervisor | Várady, Luca; Dr. Pogonyi, Szabolcs |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/szaniszlo_anna.pdf |
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