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We aim to present some of our research findings interpreting the education of Roma children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds in the Czech Republic. Namely, we employed Foucault’s (critical) discursive analysis, discursive psychology and conversational analysis. We focused primarily on authors of articles (on education of Roma) in journals for teachers. We aim to explain our research findings within the context of power discourse and blended institutional structures.

Our paper investigates the education of Roma children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. The issue is well covered in research, education scholarship and the policy level. Nevertheless, we ask whether Roma themselves participate in the education policy or whether they are an object of an interest and institutional power of decision makers in the Czech education system. We focus on the construction of the education of a Roma pupil from the point of view of Roma parents and Roma children. We collected the data...