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Working With Travellers.
Published by the National Playbus
Association
A Practical guide for play, youth and community groups.
Travelling people have been an important
feature of life in the British Isles for hundreds of years. They still are.
There are many different groups, all with varied histories, ethnic backgrounds,
and cultural traditions. They are united in their desire to move freely and
live as they choose. Unfortunatly one of other thing unites them and that is
the degree of prejudice and discrimination they face whether they be Gypsies,
Irish Travellers, New Travellers, Show People or refugees. One aim of this book
is to help you understand something of the culture of the different Traveller
groups and their traditions. The Second aim is to provide you with some basic
guidelines drawn from the collective experiences of Travellers and mobile workers
on how to work effectively with Traveller communities.
We hope you find your experiences are as interesting and rewarding as playbus workers do.
£10.00 plus p&p *discounted price to National Playbus members £5.00 plus p&p
To Order Your Copy
Send a cheque made payable to the National
Playbus Association for the amount of £10.00/£5.00 each, plus £1.50
for packaging & post to addresses in UK & Eire.
To:
National Playbus Association,
93 Whitby Road,
Brislington,
Bristol
BS4 3QF
Tel. 0 117 9775375 Fax. 0 117 9721838
Cathy Kiddle.
Jessica Kingsly Pubications. ISBN 1-85302-684-0
This is an essential read for those who
work with travellers and their children.
Cathy uses her experience as a home-educator when she travelled with a theatre
group in the past to balance her long and varied work with all kinds of travellers
that she has done recently; and explores pertinent issues such as access, rights
and practice.
As the title suggests, the focus is on the needs of traveller children, particularly
suggesting that education can reduce marginalisation as children become the
voices of their cultures.
The writing is thoroughly researched, and supported by references to relevant
publications, as well as quote from travellers and their children. The arguments
in favour of integration into a base school, supported by distance learning
from those schools is strong.
However, the integration of children who have no base is, I feel a more complex
issue. Personally, I would not want any of my children to attend more than 2
schools in an academic year - it can be challenging and time-consuming for children,
parents and teachers. I feel that all children, housed or travelling, should
have a CHOICE, and access to resources, teacher and a relevant curriculum.
This book is a valuable introduction to the issues... and I'd be really interested
in the responses of other readers, especially as a substantial proportin of
new travellers may have opted for home-education, even if they had been living
in houses.
Fiona.
Publish these two relevant books:
"Gaining Ground: Law Reform for Gypsies and Travellers" by Rachel Morris and Luke Clements, Cardiff Law School. ISBN 0 900458 98 4, paperback, 176 pages, £17
Gypsies are stereotyped and denigrated,
find it increasingly difficult to pursue their traditional way of life, suffer
a lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality rate than than that of settled
people and have low rates of literacy.
Between 1997 and 1999 the Traveller Law research Unit at Cardiff Law School
held two conferences and a large number of meetings throughout England and Wales
at which ideas for reform in the law, policy and practice relating to Travelling
people in the areas of education, accommodation and site provision, health,
social and other services, planning, and eviction and criminal justice were
discussed and refined.
This book contains the resulting proposals, as agreed by equality organisations,
religious organisations, Gypsy and Traveller Organisations, educators, health
workers, community development workers, local government officers and planners,
lawyers - and Gypsies and Travellers themselves. It will inform the on-going
debate about the treatment of Gypsies and Travellers and be a tool with which
to lobby the Government to affect law reform and set up a Task Force on Gypsies
similar to the which reported in the Republic of Ireland in 1995
The Introduction is by Lord Avebury and the Afterword by Hugh
Harris of the Commission for Racial Equality.
Part 1: The need and momentum for reform in separate chapters on education,
site provision, eviction and criminal justice, planning, health and social services
explains and lists the reform agenda of the working groups.
Part 2: Voices for Reform includes contributions by some of the best
known names and organisations active in this field arranged under the same chapter
headings.
also
"Moving on: The Gypsies and Travellers of Britain" by Donald Kennick and Colin Clark, ISBN 0 900458 99 2, paperback, 204 pages, £9.99
Gypsies arouse strong passions, but there
is growing interest in who they are, where they come from and how they have
survived centuries of discrimination. This is the only general introduction
to the struggle of Gypsies to survive as a people in Britain today. The illustrations
show the reality of life now that the caravans have replaced bender tents and
vardoes (horse drawn caravans).
Gypsies are often "moved on" by the police but a new generation hope foe a better
future. The title of the book is taken from a poem by a Gypsy girl studying
for a law degree. A profile of the Gypsy community, their origin, how they work
and where they live, including refugees from Eastern Europe and the Balkans,
is followed by chapters on the Kale of Wales (who spoke pure Romani until recently)
the Nawkens of Scotland and, more controversially, New (Age) Travellers.
Finding sites is the key to survival but planning law often stops Gypsies from
even living in a caravan on their own land. They find it increasingly difficult
to pursue their traditional way of life, suffer a lower life expectancy and
higher infant mortality rate and have low rates of literacy. This illustrated
pocket guide will help open minds as the Gypsies of Britain "move on" into an
uncertain future.
New book information.
Alan Dearling Enabler Publications
Alternative Australia: celebrating cultural diversity. by Alan Dearling
with Brendan Hanley (Mook Bahloo) ISBN 0 9523316 4 0
content "The main purpose in Australia is to find our mystical space." Daevid
Allen, one of many contributors.
Moments of Magick page by Alan Dearling, about the Summer Solstice at the stones 2000.
EAT currently has pre-school workpacks,
funded by the Millennium Commission through the Pre-school Learning Alliance,
available to traveller families. The pack is an A3 plastic wallet full of resources
for 3 & 4 year old children who are unable to attend nursery because of
their nomadic lifestyles. The resources include: culture-freindly activity,
colouring & reading books; crayons, pencil, exercise book, commercial storybooks,
advice for parents, cut & make cards. Reprinting a range of older TSC publications.
They are available by post, or from the FFT office in Brighton; the Children's
Society in Somerset; the Cornwall Children's Project.
There will soon be A5 format stories by young travellers, funded by Groundswell.
Tess the Traveller Storybooks.
Fiona, EAT, PO. Box 36, Grantham,
NG31 6EW.
Tel. 0 1558 650621
Order Form Please check for availability before ordering.
Educational
Advice for Travellers.
TSC Policies Updated June 2002
TSC Aims Revised 2001
The TSC Annual Report 2002 is now available. includes reports from AGM, and Accounts to 31st. March 2002. Mobile IT Unit Report Price £10.00.
The TSC Research Report 2000 is still available. price £7.50.
TSC Trustee Gary Coventry, has published
2 28 page A5 booklets of his drawings. Called "TAX XEMPT", of living vehicles,
on sale for £4.00 (discount available).
Scanned pages:
Book
1 .jpg image 168Kb. Book
2 .jpg image 88Kb. © Gary teapot Coventry 2001
Albion
An example illustration. © Gary Coventry 2001 .jpg image 48Kb.
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Available from: Tax Xempt Teapot Circus c/o Albany Cottage Gurney Slade BATH BA3 4TT |
This section us due to be upgraded
when we revamp the website, the server that was providing the resources is no
longer working. Hopefully we will be able to provide downloadable resources
by spring 2005. Sorry for any inconveniance.
Black and White, Line-Drawn Colouring-in Pages from some of the TSC Publications,
for you to download, or just print out from your browser, and use.
All JPG or GIF Images:
Creative Colouring Book 1 by Gubby. Pages sized to print out on A4 paper.
Gubby's 2nd Colouring Book Pages sized to print out on A4 paper.
Ideas for Creative Play on a rainy Day Images upto half a megabyte.
Introducing Numbers
Directory List of Printouts full listing.
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files.
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