Ricardo Borrull, born in 1956, Albacete (Spain)
Born in 1956, Ricardo Borrull is a Romani and a referent within the Roma community. Already since the 70’s and in the following decades, Ricardo began fighting against school truancy among the Roma.
RICARDO BORRULL AND HIS FIGHT AGAINST ROMA SCHOOL TRUANCY
When Florida University was asked —from the PAL project and its fight against discrimination and anti-gypsyism in education and employment— the beautiful task of collecting success stories within the Roma community, the first person who came to our mind was Ricardo Borrull.
Born in 1956, Ricardo Borrull is a Romani and a referent within the Roma community. Already since the 70’s and in the following decades, Ricardo began fighting against school truancy among the Roma. He also promoted a commission of the Generalitat Valenciana that worked for the development of the Roma community and, since the 90s, has taught many teachers to work from an intercultural perspective, in favor of minority cultures and groups at risk of social exclusion.
Awarded the Silver Cross of the Civil Order of Social Solidarity, he works as a teacher at a school in the Valencian population of Manises and has fought all his life against all those elements that have been an obstacle to the schooling of Roma children, always raising the importance of education and school. These elements reside in part in the characteristics of the school itself, which still has a long way to go to be able to properly manage diversity and really follow a model of inclusive education. Ricardo Borrull knows that going to school and reaching curricular objectives should not be synonymous with acculturation and loss of one’s identity. Without intercultural education there can never be an inclusive education.
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