| Abstrakt: |
As in many other European countries Romani culture has received growing public attention in Austria as a consequence of the emancipation of the Roma, a process that intensified from the 1990s onwards. Roma NGOs aimed for the inclusion of their language and culture into the educational system, and this finally was guaranteed through the official recognition of the Roma as an Austrian national minority in 1993. From the beginning, Romani teaching initiatives were mainly politically based and did not really take the sociolmguistic situation of the Romani varieties spoken in Austria into account. Pedagogical considerations were even more sidelined in the process, or rather more or less neglected. The paper deals with Romani teaching in Austria in general with a special focus on the situation of Burgenland Romani, which is perceived as the indigenous or autochthonous Romani variety of Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
