Changing Society — Changing Schools? School Culture(s) in Germany in the Current Context of Forced Migration

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: Comparative Education

Abstract

In recent years, schools in Germany have taken in many children and adolescents with refugee experience. The schools have reacted in different ways and they continue to respond differently to this pedagogical, organizational, and didactic challenge. We assume that in the current situation schools particularly push such measures that are intended to improve academic success and the social inclusion of refugees in the school. Research on social inclusion and immigrant students’ participation in the school in most cases focuses on individual learning and development instead of the developmental potential of institutions. By contrast, we are interested in the role of school cultures and their institutional conditions. We present an interdisciplinary, longitudinal approach with a mixed-methods research design.

Authors

• Susanne Boese, DIPF| Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education

• Dominique Patricia Rauch

• Svenja Vieluf, German Institute for International Educational Research

• Birgit Becker, Goethe University Frankfurt

• Patricia Stosic, Goethe University Frankfurt

• Eva Raschke, Goethe University Frankfurt

• Anna Laschewski, Goethe University