Transnational Mobility in Schools
Permanent? Transient? The diversity of transnational mobility as a challenge for institutional change in schools in Germany
Project Directors: Yasemin Karakaşoğlu, Dita Vogel
Researchers:Torben Dittmer, Matthias Linnemann, Dita Vogel
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research, "Migration and social change"
Duration: 2/2018 bis 1/2021
Cooperation partners:
- Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) Hauptvorstand
- Freudenberg Stiftung
In the Federal Republic of Germany, school policies were developped under the primacy of rotation in the 1950s to 1970s, while today the primacy of integration is guiding school policies: Newly arrived children and youth are addressed as immigrants. They are supposed to learn German quickly and to participate in regular school that prepares for a life in Germany. Both perspectives have shortcomings. Minors have a right to school education from the beginning, even if return or further migration is planned or may be enforced by the state, for example in the case of rejected asylum applications. The question how schools can adequately deal with settings in which students with different staying perspectives learn together has been hardly posed until today, and solutions have not been developped. Nonetheless, inclusion is accepted as a guiding principle in education, and it would require addressing also the needs dependent on different migration perspectives.
The project TraMiS investigates how schools have dealt with international mobility of minors in the past, and which inclusive developments are possible in the future.
- Retrospectively, it will present a new perspective on institutional change in response to migration in the field of schools.
- Prospectively, it will identify options for institutional change – addressing the education needs of schools with minors who are – potentially or necessarily – mobile.
- Finally, it will develop targeted communication on all levels – for the participating schools and school policy, for pedagogic practice and scientific debate.
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