In this edition of the newsletter of the Center for Integration Studies in December, you will be able to find recent information on the following subjects:
“Society in Dialogue“ 2022 concluded with an interdisciplinary concept workshop
This year, the event series “Society in Dialog” was held for the third time. As in previous years, a diverse audience in Saxony could be brought into the conversation and a wide range of topics were discussed on a scientific basis at a total of nine events.
At the end of October, a discussion café was held on the topic of “Proteste unter den Bedingungen autoritärer Herrschaft“ (Protests under the Conditions of Authoritarian Rule) which focused on the work of the environmental and peace movements in the 1980s up to the revolutionary upheavals of 1989. The series of events was concluded at the beginning of November with an interdisciplinary concept workshop for political educators, theater makers, teachers, etc., which took place in cooperation with the John Dewey Research Center for the Didactics of Democracy. The workshop was accompanying the exhibition „STIMMEN DES UMBRUCHS – biografische Geschichten von Dresdner Frauen aus aller Welt“ (VOICES OF TRANSFORMATION – biographical stories of Dresden women from all over the world), which was on display at the Ausländerrat until November 3, 2022.
You can find more information about the individual events in our event archive.
News from the project MigOst - Ostdeutsche Migrationsgesellschaft selbst erzählen
MigOst storytelling café with the Geflüchteten Netzwerk Cottbus (Cottbus Refugee Network) (Photo: MigOst)
18 storytelling cafés: MigOst successfully concludes second project phase
The citizen science project “MigOst - Ostdeutsche Migrationsgeschichte selbst erzählen” (East German migration society tells its own story) has completed its second project phase as planned. Started in March 2021, the project has conducted a total of 18 storytelling cafés and 34 individual biographical interviews with People of Color and people with migration backgrounds in the cities of Cottbus, Dresden, and Halle (Saale).
The aim was, on the one hand, to create opportunities for (joint) discussion of (one's own) migration history. In addition, the collected data will be stored in the life-historical archive of the Institute of Saxon History and Cultural Anthropology.
Countries of origin of participants of a storytelling café with the community interpreting service Dresden (Photo: MigOst)
In this way, they not only feed into scientific research, but are also used in part for local cultural productions within the framework of the third project phase, with the aim of making the participation of migrants in Eastern Germany more visible and expanding the one-dimensional, majority-society perspective on migration.
To turn the material into cultural productions, so-called ‘city labs’ will be held in Cottbus, Dresden, and Halle from 2023.
Preparations for this are proceeding at full speed, and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden has already been won over for the collaboration.In the context of their Bürgerbühne (citizen stage), the Staatsschauspiel is hosting an open theater project entitled “UN(D)SICHTBAR” (invisible/ and visible), which will be all about the (personal) experiences that migrants and people of color have in East Germany. UN(D)SICHTBAR will be shown publicly in Dresden in mid-2023.
MigOst is a joint project of the Center for Integration Studies with the Dachverband der Migrantenorganisationen in Ostdeutschland e.V. and the BTU Cottbus.
The results of the project “Digital-gestütztes Lehren und Lernen in DaZ: Professionalisierung digitaler Kompetenzen in der DaZ-Lehrkräftebildung in der 1. und 3. Phase” (Digital-supported teaching and learning in German as a second language: Professionalization of digital competencies in German as a second language teacher training in the 1st and 3rd phase – digiDaZ:Pro) were presented at the 17th International Conference of Teachers of German (IDT). The conference for German teachers and researchers from all over the world takes place every four years and was hosted this year at the University of Vienna.
The project surveyed the experiences of teachers in the areas of language education and German as a second language in Dresden schools and confirmed that the ways of presenting lessons have changed completely during school shutdowns. In reconstructing their experiences, subject teachers saw their communication with students as the only resource available for learning. Especially the teachers in language learning classes for German as a second language estimated that their students stagnated linguistically because other resources, for example for speaking, were unavailable. In the conference section ‘Sprache im Fach’ (Language in the Subject), the after-effects of school closures on competence development and research were discussed.
In January 2023, the results will be presented and discussed in a potential-oriented way in the digital training series “Deutsch als Zweitsprache im Kontext von Mehrsprachigkeit“ (German as a Second Language in the Context of Multilingualism).
The project digiDaZ:Pro was initiated in the summer of 2020 by the Center for Integration Studies and the extension subject German as a Second Language at TU Dresden and was funded in its initial phase as one of a total of 100 projects by the Stifterverband in its anniversary initiative “Wirkung hoch hundert” (Effect to the power of one hundred).
News from the project NESK
In September, the “Netzwerk Eltern-Schul-Kommunikation” (Network Parent-School-Communication – NESK) was represented at the network conference “Interkulturelle Bildungslandschaft” (Intercultural Educational Landscape) in the Dresdner Volkshaus, where language and cultural mediators, migrant organizations and daycare centers networked. Parental work and parental cooperation are part of intercultural educational landscapes and require certain conditions for their development, such as diversity and language sensitivity, common objectives, and cultural mediation processes.
The criteria for the success of parental cooperation also formed the topic of the panel discussion, in which NESK represented the issues surrounding communication and linguisticization of the institution ‘KiTa’ (daycare center) with the means of simple and understandable language. The possibilities, but also the limits of linguistic work in the institutional context of daycare centers were critically discussed.
The “Netzwerk Eltern-Schul-Kommunikation” (Network Parent-School-Communication – NESK) emerged from a seminar series on the extension subject German as a Second Language at TU Dresden, which was offered for the first time in the winter semester 2017/18 in cooperation with the Gewerkschaft für Erziehung und Wissenschaft (Union for Education and Science – GEW, Department of Antidiscrimination, Migration, and International Affairs).
The new RLC training class – The RLC Dresden is pleased to have started the winter semester 2022/23 with a bigger training class than ever before. The degree programs represented by the participants are also particularly diverse this year.
Counseling day with a focus on Ukraine – In addition to its regular weekly counseling appointments, the RLCD organized a counseling day for refugees from Ukraine on November 3, 2022 with the support of the Sächsisches Umschulungs- und Fortbildungswerk Dresden e.V.. The counselors were supported by Russian and Ukrainian interpreters.
Asylum tour through Saxony – From November 14 to November 18, 2022, Cornelia Ernst, Member of the European Parliament, Clara Bünger, Member of the Bundestag, and Juliane Nagel, asylum policy spokesperson for the Left Party, traveled through Saxony to learn about the asylum policy situation in the state. The RLC Dresden was one of the initiatives with which the politicians discussed the current challenges. After a meeting in the RLC office in Dresden, RLC representatives also took part in the discussion at the ‘Round Table Asylum’ in Chemnitz City Hall.
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