Knowledge and Worlds in Motion: Migration and Education in Germany since 1945
Conference Hosted by the Leibniz Working Group on Migration and Education in Germany since 1945
Dates: May 19 and 20, 2016
Location: Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Celler Str. 3, 38114 Braunschweig
Research on migration and education is most often conducted from a present-day perspective. The Leibniz Working Group on Migration and Education in Germany since 1945, founded at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in July 2015, advocates for a broadening of this perspective in its work at the Institute and through this conference. The conference aims first to use approaches from the fields of contemporary history and cultural studies to analyse the historicity of concepts of society, social norms and values in the area of education, which have influenced debates on migration and the societal diversity it has engendered since 1945.
Second, it hopes to highlight the diversity of actors and the heterogeneity of migrants to Germany during this period, in the educational context. The conference will look at the experiences of those who fled and were expelled from formerly German regions of Eastern Europe after World War II, Holocaust survivors, ‘guest workers’, persons in political exile, ethnic Germans immigrating from former Soviet states after 1990 (Spätaussiedler), and asylum seekers. Their experiences of school education cannot be subsumed in an interpretive framework based on the nation-state; rather, many different levels come into play, such as federal/regional educational policy, social practices ‘on the ground’ at the schools, panels of European education experts, or international cultural diplomacy.
Thus, in a third step, the conference will move beyond simply discussing the ‘majority society’s’ treatment of immigrants or envisioning educational policy as exclusive to state institutions. It will also explore the worldviews and expectations of immigrants and their initiatives in the self-organisation of educational programmes.
This conference will bring together scholars of contemporary history, education history, educational sciences and migration – communities of expertise that too often remain separate.
Participation in the conference is open to the public. To register, please contact Dr. Stephanie Zloch by May 18, 2016 at: zloch(at)gei.de
Thursday, May 19, 2016
From 12:00 p.m.: Arrival
1:00 p.m.: Dr. Stephanie Zloch, GEI, Braunschweig: Welcome and introduction
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.: Panel I: ‘Debatten und Politiken im Überblick’
Moderation: Dr. Marcus Otto, GEI, Braunschweig
Prof. Karen Schönwälder, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen: ‘Migration, Migrationspolitik und Wahrnehmung von Diversität’
Dr. Monika Mattes, German Institute for International Educational Research, Berlin: ‘Bildungshistorische Debatten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland’
3:30 – 4:00 p.m.: Break
4:00 – 5:30: Panel II: ‘Fallstudien zu Migrant/innen-Gruppen’
Moderation: Engin Deniz Yorulmaz, GEI, Braunschweig
Dr. Roberto Sala, University of Basel: ‘Ein Paradebeispiel gelungener Integration? Menschen mit italienischem Migrationshintergrund in der Bundesrepublik’
Alexa Brum, Frankfurt/Main: ‘Die Integration russischsprachiger Kinder aus der UdSSR und der GUS in der Praxis der jüdischen Isaak-Emil-Lichtigfeld-Schule zu Frankfurt/Main’
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.: Panel III: ‘Repräsentationen von Migration in Bildungsmedien’
Moderation: Dr. Zrinka Stimac, GEI, Braunschweig
Dr. Helmut Geuenich, Düren: ‘Migration und Migrant(inn)en im Schulbuch. Diskursanalysen nordrhein-westfälischer Politik- und Sozialkundebücher für die Sekundarstufe I’
Cornelia Hagemann, GEI, Braunschweig: ‘Das Thema Migration in evangelischen und katholischen Religionsbüchern der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit den 1950er Jahren’
8:00 p.m.: Dinner
Friday, May 20, 2016
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.: Panel IV: ‘International Perspectives on the Worlds of Migrants’
Moderation: Matthias Springborn, GEI, Braunschweig
Prof. Brigitte Le Normand, University of British Columbia, Kelowna: ‘Yugoslav efforts to educate children of migrant workers: intentions, practice, and evaluation’
Dr. Anna Kurpiel, Wrocław: ‘The post-war migrations from and to Lower Silesia: Presentation of the phenomenon with special emphasis on children's perspective’
Brian Van Wyck, Michigan State University: ‘The Turkish State and Turks in Europe, 1961 to the Present’
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Lunch, optional tour of the GEI library
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.: Panel V: ‘Diversität im schulischen Kontext’
Moderation: Dr. Inga Niehaus, GEI, Braunschweig
Prof. Maisha-Maureen Eggers, Humboldt-Universität Berlin: ‘Diversität in Kinderliteratur und Schulmaterialien’
Prof. Riem Spielhaus, GEI, Braunschweig: ‘Die Konstruktion von Migrationshintergrund und Muslimsein in der Schule’
2:30 – 3:00 p.m.: Break
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.: Panel VI: ‘Netzwerke und Wissen als Konzepte der historischen Migrations- und Bildungsforschung’
Moderation: Dr. Stephanie Zloch, GEI, Braunschweig
PD Dr. Uwe Hunger, Münster University: ‘Migrantenorganisation im Bereich der Bildung’
Dr. Thomas Kemper, University of Wuppertal: ‘Die Entwicklung der Schulstatistik in Deutschland – Begrifflichkeiten und Operationalisierungen (insbesondere des Migrationshintergrundes) in historischer Perspektive’
Dr. Britta Behm, German Institute for International Educational Research, Berlin: ‘Wissensgeschichtliche Perspektiven auf die Bildungsgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland’
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.: Closing discussion
