Using the critical work of Andreas Kazamias on the history and methods of comparative education as conceptual framework, we investigate the education (over a 200-year period) of the Slovak Roma. We position our story as paradigmatic of the dual processes of enlightenment and obscurantism with which we are familiar in thinking about the history of racial violence. The article describes the encounter of a young British doctor, Richard Bright, with Roma and Slovaks in 1814, and explores the Enlightenment thinking about Roma in specific, and race in general, in Bright’s travelogue. We juxtapose these historical investigations with qualitative findings from research conducted recently in the same region of Slovakia. Our goal is to show that Kazamias’s calls for a return to the historical in educational research, and greater attention to the “paideia of the soul,” have relevance in considering the discouraging past and present of Roma in Slovak schools and society.

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Kazamian观点的斯洛伐克罗曼语教育历史

以安德烈亚斯·哈萨米斯（Andreas Kazamias）在比较教育的历史和方法方面的重要工作作为概念框架，我们调查了斯洛伐克罗姆人的教育（200多年来）。我们将我们的故事定位为启蒙和愚昧主义的双重过程的典范，在我们对种族暴力的历史进行思考时会很熟悉。这篇文章描述了1814年一位年轻的英国医生Richard Bright与Roma和Slovaks的相遇，并在Bright的旅行记录中探讨了关于罗姆人的启蒙运动思想。我们将这些历史调查与最近在斯洛伐克同一地区进行的研究的定性发现并列。我们的目标是表明哈萨米斯人呼吁回归教育研究的历史，