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• Perceptions of University Students on the Role of Roma Student Societies in Higher Education

  97-114

  Aranka Varga

  Gergely Horváth

  Anna Orsós

  Fanni Trendl

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  199

  As a result of the expansion of higher education, the student population is becoming more diversified, with students who are the first in their families and communities to undertake a university degree. Minorities defined as Roma have been an integral part of Europe since the Middle Ages, but their educational attainment lags behind the general population, and they are still under-represented in higher education. The study analyses the perceptions of mostly Roma students who are on the path of social mobility in their formal education and the non-formal community (Roma student societies) that provides targeted support for their academic progress. The study involved the members of the network of Roma student societies in Hungarian universities in questionnaire format research (N=300, n=182). In this study, the implicit ideas of the participants about the university and the Roma student societies are inquired into, exploring the similarities and differences in the function of the two institutions, and analysing the role of the Roma student society in social mobility. The data were processed using a qualitative analysis strategy, thematic coding. The results shed light on the functions of the university, which is a formal space, and the Roma student society, which is a non-formal socialization space. The university was associated with formal learning and socialisation, while the Roma student society was associated with experiential, action-oriented, non-formal space. The respondents perceived the university, but especially the student society, as a positive experience. Our study reveals the perceptions of the pedagogical programme of the Roma student societies. The Roma student society is compared to the relationships experienced in a family; the Roma student society is seen as a continuum of the sense of security provided by the family. Through the responses of Roma students, this study highlights that non-formal small communities in universities are effective means for the successful advancement of underrepresented groups in higher education, which supports a positive experience of their mobility.

• MUSEUM PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP IN THE LIGHT OF THE IPOO-MODEL

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  Fruzsina Aranyi

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  222

  With the spread of the visitor-friendly museum approach the professionals of the museum strive to address a visitor layer as wide as possible. It requires the professional interpretation of exhibitions for different ages. Thus, both the role of museum pedagogues and the museums as non-formal education space are appreciated increasingly. However, the nature of an exhibition also may be influenced in certain cases by the structure of the exhibition space. The Literature House of Debrecen is a long straight space divided into five smaller units, in which the permanent literature exhibition of Dreaming Hungarians can be found. The periodical exhibition with the title of ’REJTŐzködő Irodalom’ appeared in this space in a scattered way. The character of the exhibition space provided an excellent possibility for a mosaic layout and in this way for a gamified museum pedagogical activity. In our study, this method is examined in the light of the IPOO-model. The aim of the method is how to make the learning more efficient and it can also be used in an excellent way in the non-formal education environment where learning covers the presence of pieces of information conveyed by the exhibition.