A participação das coordenadoras do projeto "EduCig. Desempenhos escolares entre os Ciganos: investigação-ação e projeto de co- design", Maria Manuela Mendes e Olga Magano, no XIV Congreso Español de Sociología 2022: “Desigualdades, Fronteras y Resiliencia. Sociología para crisis globales" em Murcia.

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Programa do congresso: https://congreso2022.fes-sociologia.com/

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Comunicações apresentadas por Maria Manuela Mendes e Olga Magano:

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GT06-SES05: Desigualdad y educación
Hora: 01/07/2022: 9:00-10:30 · Lugar: FCCTT/TS AULA 1.5

GT 06 Desigualdad y Estratificación Social

The reproduction of inequalities of Cigano/Roma students in secondary education in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto, in Portugal

Olga Magano1,2, Maria Manuela Mendes1,3

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1CIES_Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal; 2Universidade Aberta, Portugal; 3Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e

Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa

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Despite the growing increase in school attendance of Cigano/ Roma children and young people in recent years in Portugal, when compared to the generation of their parents, the reduction of Cigano/Roma students in the public school system is still very visible as the level of schooling increases (Mendes et al., 2014; DGEEC, 2020).

Since 2009, compulsory schooling in Portugal is 12 years of schooling and attendance is compulsory until the age of 18. However, among the Cigano/Roma population, there are still few cases of completion of 12 years of schooling and entry into higher education, as well as this population struggling with problems of early school leaving and school failure and, consequently, with a deficit of educational and professional qualifications to enter the labor market.

The purpose of this communication is to present some results from a study carried out in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto (EduCig project - Educational achievements among Cigano: research action and co-design project), through interviews with young Cigano/Roma students in secondary education and from focus groups made up of young people, parents, mediators, technicians and Cigano/Roma, analyzing school trajectories and educational paths and crossing expectations of young people, their families, but also identifying factors that reproduce social and educational inequalities in these paths on the part of the school system that are reflected in all dimensions of these people's lives.

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GT13-SES07: Educación y Sociedad (II)
Hora: 01/07/2022: 9:00-10:30 · Lugar: FEE-AULA B2/09

GT 13 Sociología de la Educación

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School experiences: the voices of Cigano/Roma secondary students

Maria Manuela Mendes1,2, Olga Magano1,3

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1ISCTE; 2ISCSP- UL; 3Uab

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An increasing number of Ciganos/Roma in Portuguese schools shows that we are facing the most educated generation ever. However, according to recent data only 2.6% of these students were enrolled at secondary education. Based on a qualitative study still in progress and mobilizing an intersectional approach, gender, ethnicity, religion and socioeconomic status of the family will be intercrossed to explore the youngsters' academic trajectories, focusing on the tensions and dilemmas shaped by the interplay between the structural constraints and individual agency. The data, based on 32 semi-structured interviews (and exploratory ethnographic analysis), conducted to young people who were attending secondary education (12 years) in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto, giving voice to Ciganos/ Roma, enables exploring the factors that underlie the continuity of the their path and experiences in the school context, namely those perceived as positive and motivating and those perceived as discriminatory, emphasizing the role of families, but also of teachers and peers in this trajectory of school continuity.

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GT01-SES05: Métodos mixtos
Hora: 02/07/2022: 9:00-10:30 · Lugar: FCCTT/TS AULA -2.3

GT 01 Metodología

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Methodological challenges of research on Cigano/Roma students in secondary education in Portugal: participatory and co-design strategies

Olga Magano1,2, Maria Manuela Mendes1,3

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1CIES_Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa; 2Universidade Aberta, Portugal; 3Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

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In recent years, studies on Cigano/Roma have gained increasing importance in Portugal, contributing to the deepening of knowledge about Portuguese Ciganos/Roma and their social realities. Some recent bibliographic productions have sought to know, denounce and deconstruct the logics that nourish these stereotyped and often racist manifestations, contributing to the development of new perspectives on Ciganos/Roma that can be reversed in the public measures adopted.

The research on Ciganos/ Roma put methodological challenges in terms of strategies to be adopted to study a population that is difficult to approach because, sometimes, some of these people lives in excluded, stigmatized, segregated, discriminated territories and also due to the impossibility of obtaining official statistical data on this population.

With the objective of studying the trajectories of young Cigano/Roma students in secondary education and identifying the factors of school dropout but also the motivations and aspirations for continuity, a study was developed with the application of mixed methodologies: qualitative, quantitative and participatory, with the participation of Cigano/ Roma individuals in the different phases of the project. In this communication, our focus will be the presentation, reflection and discussion of participatory and co-design methodologies that are directly rooted in the results obtained through qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Thus, the participatory investigative aspects developed will be presented: 1) training for teachers 2) workshops in schools 3) certified training for young people 4) collaborative network and 5) documentary.

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