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Resources: Articles Available

Articles linked below are available free of charge on this site - just click on the title to read. If you would like a copy of any of the articles not yet available online, please contact step@education.ed.ac.uk or write to Scottish Traveller Education Programme, Educational Studies, The University of Edinburgh, 2.5 Charteris Land, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ

Articles: Scottish Context

Jordan, E. and Padfield, P. (2003) Education at the margins; outsiders and the mainstream, in T.G.K. Bryce and W.M. Humes (eds.) Scottish Education; Post-Devolution, 2nd edition, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

Jordan, E. (2002) Partnership approaches: new futures for Travellers, in J. Wearmouth, J. Soer and G. Reid (eds.) Addressing Difficulties in Literacy Development, RoutledgeFalmer, London.

Jordan, E. (2001) Exclusion of travellers in state schools, in Educational Research, 43 (2); 117-132.

Jordan, E. (2001) From interdependence, to dependence and independence; home and school learning for Traveller children, in Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 8 (1); 57-74

Jordan, E. (2001) Interrupted Learning; the Traveller paradigm in British Journal of Learning Support, 16 (3); 128-134.

Jordan, E. (2000) Outside the mainstream, in A. Hill (ed.) Scottish School Board Association Millennium Book.

Jordan, E. (2000) The exclusionary comprehensive school system; the experience of showground families in Scotland, in P.A. Danaher (ed.) Mapping International Diversity in Researching Traveller and Nomadic Education, International Journal of Educational Research, 33 (3) 253- 263.

Jordan, E. (2000) The inclusive school; effective education for secondary age Travellers, in E. Hornburg (ed.) Die Schulsituation von Sinti und Roma in Europa, Frankfurt-am-Main. (Publisher??)

Jordan, E. (2000) Traveller Pupils and Scottish Schools, in SCRE Spotlights, 76, http://www.scre.ac.uk/spotlight/spotlight76.html.

Jordan, E. (1999) Travelling towards inclusion, in EFECOT Newsline, 23.

Jordan, E. (1998) Teacher Training for Inclusion, paper for Gypsy Traveller Conference, Centre de Recherches Tsiganes, Universite Rene Descartes, Perpignan.

Jordan, E. (1998) The Interrupted Learner; the Traveller paradigm, paper for Association of Teachers of Travelling People, Dublin.

Jordan, E. (1997) Education for Travellers or Creating Equality of Opportunity in State Education, in J. de Heer-Deuhe (ed.) Intercultural Education and Education of Migrant Children, Utrecht.

Jordan, E. and Homes, P. (1997) The interrupted learner; whose responsibility? in J. Bastiani (ed.) Home-School Work in Multi-cultural Settings, David Fulton, London.

Jordan, E. (1996) Education for Travellers in E. Befring (ed.) Teacher Education for Equality, ATEE, Oslo

Lloyd, G and Stead, J. (2002) Including Gypsy Travellers in education, in Race Equality Teaching,21(1);21-24.

Lloyd, G and Stead, J. (2001) 'The boys and girls not calling me names and the teachers to believe me'.  Name calling and the experiences of Travellers in school, in Children and Society, 15; 361-374.

Lloyd, G. and Norris, C. (1998) From difference to deviance: the exclusion of gypsy-traveller children from school in Scotland in International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2 (4); 359-369.

Lloyd G., Stead, J., Jordan, E. and Norris, C. Teachers and Gypsy Travellers, in Scottish Educational review, 31(1);48-65.

McKinney, R. (2003) Views from the margins; Gypsy/travellers and the ethnicity debate in the new Scotland, in Scottish Affairs, 42.

Scottish Office (1998) Travellers and Education in 8th Term Report 1995-97, the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Scotland's Travelling People, Scottish Office Development Department, Edinburgh.


Articles: UK Context

Bhopal, K. (2004) Gypsy Travellers and education: changing needs and changing perceptions, in British Journal of Special Educational Studies, 54 (1); 47-64.

Levinson, M. and Sparkes, A. (2003) Gypsy masculinities and the school-home interface; exploring contradictions and tensions, in British Journal of Sociology of Education, 24 (5); 587-603.

Reynolds, M., McCartan, D. and Knipe, D. (2003) Traveller culture and lifestyle as factors influencing children's integration into mainstream secondary schools in West Belfast in Inclusive Education, 7 (4);403-414.