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5. Learning environment and school governance
8.
Issues for presentation and discussion could include hostile environments and bias in
disciplinary measures; anti-discrimination and intercultural training; recruitment and training of
teachers from minority communities; and the active involvement of representatives from
minority communities in school management and administration.
6. Relationship between desegregation strategies, cultural
autonomy and integration in the quest for social cohesion
9.
Issues for presentation and discussion could include contacts and exchanges between
minorities and the general population; relations between religious minorities and secular schools;
opportunities for persons belonging to minorities to learn their mother tongue or learn through
the medium of the mother tongue.
7. Content and delivery of the curriculum
10. Issues for presentation and discussion could include the development of curricula relating
to minorities; inclusion of the histories, cultures and traditions of minorities in the general
compulsory curriculum; and opportunities for members of the general population to learn
minority languages.
8. Concluding remarks
11. The Chairperson of the Forum, Viktoria Mohacsi, and the independent expert on minority
issues, Gay McDougall, will share with Forum participants their concluding remarks, including
forward-looking proposals for next steps.