Edited Volume

The volume presents international perspectives on transnationality, schools and teacher education. The aim of the volume is to critically discuss the appropriateness of the restriction to the national orientation of schools and teacher education in the face of increasing migration and transnationality. The contributions to the volume provide ideas from international teacher education research as well as from school pedagogical practice in different national contexts namely Austria, Canada, Chile, Greece, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, Turkey, UK or USA. They all have in common that they are concerned with the question of which empirical and theoretical approaches are suitable to describe the phenomena of pedagogical-professional dealing with migration-related and transnational demands on the school found in the field of school and teacher education. The focus is not primarily on migrants and their migration paths, actions or attitudes, but on the global contexts of reference and interconnections - embedded in their specific national and global social power and hierarchical relationships - as well as the country-specific and cross-country structural and contextual conditions of schools and teacher education. These affect all school actors.

The edited volume is available as a pre-print publication online open access, funded by Stiftung Mercator. In December 2021 the edited volume was also published by Springer VS as a ebook and print version. Please cite as:

Heidrich, L.; Karakaşoğlu, Y.; Mecheril, P.; Shure, S. (eds.) (2021). Regimes of Belonging – Schools – Migrations. Teaching in (Trans)National Constellations. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29189-1

The editors of the volume are:

Lydia Heidrich, University of Bremen

Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu, University of Bremen

Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril, Bielefeld University

Dr. Saphira Shure, Bielefeld University

News

As part of her research semester, Yasemin Karakaşoğlu accepted the invitation of our cooperation partners Prof. Dr. Akiko Ito and Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Sato from the University of Fukuoka and presented the Bremen model to the members of her research group on the “Importance of diversity in teacher education in international comparison”. The hybrid event, which was attended by colleagues from the USA, New Zealand and Sweden, led to a lively exchange about the different national attributions of meaning to diversity and inclusion. The colleagues are planning a return visit to Bremen in 2025 to further develop a joint research project.You can find the announcement of the lecture HERE

 

Dennis Barasi, René Breiwe, Isabel Dean, Aysun Doğmuş, Rabea Lucille Halimi and Nicolle Pfaff have published a digital documentation of the conference of the Netzwerk Rassismuskritische Schulpädagogik “Utopien im Hier und Jetzt: Visionen für eine rassismuskritische Schule - Perspektiven für Schulentwicklung & Schulpädagogik”: HERE

Dennis Barasi, Aysun Doğmuş, Ellen Kollender and Aslı Polatdemir have published the documentation of the event “Pedagogy in times of catastrophe - A solidarity event with educational actors in the Turkish-Syrian border region” in the journal Voluntaris. A digital documentation was also created. The corresponding portfolio contains documentation on the content and course of the event, contact addresses for networking with the invited actors from Anadolu Kültür, Body Movement for Vulnerable Groups, Education Reform Initiative / Eğitim Reformu Girişimi and Kırkayak Kültür, as well as opportunities to donate to the civil society actors in the earthquake region. The portfolio can be accessed under the following link: HERE