(970)THE ITINERANT CLASSROOMS PROGRAMME LIKE A TOOL OFEDUCATIONAL ATTENTION TO THE CIRCUS SCHOOLPOPULATION

摘要

The Law 2/2006, on May 3, of Education (BOE, 04/05/06), in the Preliminary Titleestablishes the equity as one of the principles in which the educational Spanish system isinspired, to guarantee the equal opportunities, the educational inclusion and notdiscrimination and to act as compensating element of the personal, cultural, economicand social inequality.In order to make the principle of equality in the exercise of the right to education, this lawestablishes that the civil service will develop actions of compensatory character in relationwith the people, groups and territorial areas that are unfavorable situations and they willprovide the economic resources and the necessary supports for it.On this respect, the Itinerant Classrooms Programme, commenced in 1986 and managedby the Ministry of Education through the General Management of Evaluation andArrangement of the Educational System, is one of the actions of educationalcompensation that tries to guarantee the schooling and educational attention of the pupilsin compulsory school age that, for reasons of the itinerant work of theirs parents or tutors,cannot continue a normalized process of education.The school units related with this initiative are established yearly through the officialannoucement of subvention for of the circus companies, so that the number of existingclassrooms in the Programme changes every year depending on the granted helps (in2009 it has been granted 20 classrooms to 18 circuses).Academicly the pupils belong to the CIDEAD (Center for the Innovation and Developmentof the Distance Education), of the Ministry of Education, which coordinates the work ofthe teachers, gives them support and provides resources of educational character.The aim of our work is to make a study about the educational attention given to theitinerant population through the analysis of the Itinerant Classrooms Programme incircuses.