Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Pages: 355-361

Journal: Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für angewandte Organisationspsychologie

Volume number: 50

Issue number: 4

ISSN: 2366-6145

eISSN: 2366-6218

Open access status: Bronze

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11612-019-00483-z

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
In a globalized world, in which migration has a decisive influence on social reality, cultural as well as linguistic diversity have become a natural part of our everyday life. At School as a social institution, children and young adults meet with their diverse cultural, religious and familial interests and traditions. School education has to reflect the heterogeneity of cultures, languages, and lifestyles, and has to consider the "other" as a contribution to identity and personality development, especially because different patterns of orientation and action have a central influence on individual as well as group-related meaning making. In this context, didactic material for the application in lessons has a great impact. This paper discusses, first, the results of an analysis of texts and images in primary and secondary textbooks with regard to dealing with migration-related heterogeneity in a diversity sensitive way and, secondly, follows the hypothesis that a realignment of teachers' professionalization in the handling of heterogenization is essential, so that pupils receive support in order to think beyond cultural grid systems and to sensitize them in all areas of learning and life for a constructive interaction in the world society.

Harvard Citation style: Paraschou, A. and Andersen, K. (2019) Professionalization of teachers in a society of migration considering aspects of diversitysensitization, Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für angewandte Organisationspsychologie, 50(4), pp. 355-361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11612-019-00483-z

APA Citation style: Paraschou, A., & Andersen, K. (2019). Professionalization of teachers in a society of migration considering aspects of diversitysensitization. Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für angewandte Organisationspsychologie. 50(4), 355-361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11612-019-00483-z