Can the experience be experienced?

• DOI: 10.14232/belv.2024.1.9
• Publication Date: 2024-08-02T08:26:45Z
• Authors: Norbert Tóth

Research on the school performance of Roma students draws attention to the fact that, although a positive trend can be observed in terms of the success of Roma students in the last decade, we cannot see any meaningful progress, the gap has not been reduced between Roma and non-Roma students (Fehérvári 2015). We examined the phenomenon in Tiszabercel, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. It is mainly due to the fact that the basic concept of Anthropology of Education is that social mechanisms are situational, so the solution attempt must also be situational (Delamont 2012). Based on the approach and cause-effect relationship of our research, we tried to map the peculiarities of the institution and its pedagogical practice from the point of view of the catch-up of Roma students in the elementary school operating in the settlement from the sociological perspective of education. During the empirical data collection, we used a qualitative research method, in addition to the analysis of school documents, we conducted semi-structured interviews with elementary school teachers (N=10).