Education

The educational integration of Roma children and young people continues to resent challenges to member states. These updated guidelines not only provide the reader with an overview of related Council of Europe policy documents but also address the gap between policy and classroom practice by presenting the pedagogical approach and findings from the Organisation’s Romani- Plurilingual Policy Experimentation, which took place in three member states (Greece, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia) over three academic years, from 2022 to 2025. Five general principles to guide the educational inclusion of Roma as well as of learners from other linguistic and cultural minorities are identified, based on the Council of Europe’s concept of plurilingual and intercultural education and the language learner as an autonomous social agent.