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In Retrospect: Christine Novak in the Czech Republic with the Romani

ISSUE No. 9 • FALL ’17
  • Dr. Christine Novak, Professor of Practice
    Dr. Christine Novak, Professor of Practice

    Christine Novak, professor of practice in School Psychology, talks in summer 2017 with some of the Romani children who live in isolated and rundown social housing in Ostrava in the Czech Republic.
  • Dr. Christine Novak, Professor of Practice
    Novak led a group of Lehigh students

    Novak led a group of Lehigh students who joined with Otveřena Společnost, an NGO that is collecting data on housing inequities to help inform government policy. 
  • Romani children live in isolated and rundown social housing

    Housing inequity is intimately tied to educational inequity, which was the focus of work in the Czech Republic with Lehigh students last year. 

A story on Dr. Christine Novak's work appeared in the 2016 edition of Theory to Practice.