A Journey Into the Mindsets of Teachers on a Treasure Hunt

• In Event: Worldwide Lens on Enhancing Educational Practices

Abstract

The German Ruhr-area, exemplary for many regions worldwide, is facing enormous problems with social deprivation. Performance and success are closely linked to the social background of a person.
Even though in society, talent and intelligence are normally distributed, pupils from disadvantaged families are still underrepresented in scholarship programs – an international finding that is often due to the values and attitudes of teachers. Identification must take on a new direction to increase social justice!
This paper takes the listener into the mindsets of teachers who actively nominate pupils from less privileged families for scholarships – so-called treasure hunters. The analysis of the interviews with these teachers is done by the documentary method that identifies tacit knowledge. Sensegenetic and sociogenetic types are presented.

Author

• Franziska Sophie Proskawetz, Universität Duisburg-Essen