Bielefeld School of Education - BiSEd
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DiversiTeach
The project DiversiTeach (formerly Ment4You) has been running at the Bielefeld School of Education since 2016 and is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW. The BiSEd cooperates with the Network of Migrant Teachers NRW as well as with other universities in NRW.
An essential part of the project implementation at Bielefeld University are two seminars on migration pedagogy and racism criticism in the initial phase of the teacher training program. These are offered as accompanying courses for the theory-in-practice course with aptitude reflection (OPSE) together with two tutorials. One of the two seminars is open to all interested student teachers. The second seminar is aimed at student teachers with their own or family's migration history in order to enable them to exchange ideas in a "safer space".
Against the background of diversity in schools, the content of both offers focuses on topics such as exclusion and discrimination mechanisms. In addition, the experiences gathered before and during the internship are viewed through a culturally sensitive and migration pedagogical lens during the seminar sessions. Following the OPSE, students complete an internship report in which they reflect on their observations with the support of a self-selected inquiry question and literature covered in the seminar.
For a brief look at the DiversiTeach project and the two accompanying seminars, watch the video below.
Further offerings that will be offered within the DiversiTeach project will be published here.
- Seminar programme information
Registration must be completed by June for the summer semester and by December for the winter semester.
The DiversiTeach accompanying seminar is attended as an alternative to your assigned accompanying seminar and thus automatically replaces the originally assigned accompanying seminar.
The accompanying seminar takes place parallel to the internship, starting one week earlier and ending one week after the end of the internship. In addition, there will be two tutorials in which you will receive information on scientific work.
After the internship and the accompanying seminar, you will write your theory-practice report on a racism-critical topic.
