Teaching Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

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• Teaching Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

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TRANSITIONS IN EDUCATION ? TRANSITIONS IN LIFE

• Education prepared by Elizabeth FURCH
• Pädagogische Hochschule Wien
• AUSTRIA
• Facilitator Gerhard NEUNER
• Germany
• Trainer Hilal AKYÜZ
• Turkey

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Keep an eye on it!
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TRANSITIONS

• When people go through a big change in their
  lives this situation is described as transition
  in the modern scientific literature.
• This term means transformation, a big change in
  life, to live across borders and was mentioned
  first in the late 1990ies within studies done by
  the Anglo-American scientific community,
  especially in the field of social sciences.

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• National educational systems could build up
  invisible barriers for persons as members of a
  special part of the society which can also be
  described as transitions.

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We can find so-called transitions in everybodys
school career

• a change from kindergarten to school, from one
  type of school to another one, from one national
  educational system to another one, from one class
  to another (if changing flat, town, country, ...
  ect).

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• In private life a transition could also be
  caused by migration, by the need of change of
  language and/or culture, by the change of job, by
  marriage, by a new baby born into the family, by
  a newcomer to a family etc.

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• To come over those artificial, often politically
  caused transitions/barriers/challenges/changes in
  everybodys life there is a need of certain
  awareness about it, esp. within the group of
  professional educators or social workers.

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REFERENCES

• (Furch, E. Transitionen - Bildungsbarrieren
  für Schülerinnen und Schüler mit
  Migrationshintergrund. - In Erziehung und
  Unterricht, Österreichische Pädagogische
  Zeitschrift, Heft März/April 3 - 4/06, öbv hpt,
  Wien, S. 330
• Denner, Liselotte Schumacher, Eva (Hg.) (2004)
  Übergänge im Elementar- und Primarbereich
  reflektieren und gestalten. (Reflection on and
  dealing with Transitions in elementary and
  primary school) Klinkhardt.
• Fthenakis, W. E. u.a. (1991) Übergänge und
  Brüche im Bildungswesen. (Transitions and Crashes
  in the Educational System) München
  Ehrenwirth.
• Furch, Elisabeth (2006) Transitionen -
  Bildungsbarrieren für Schülerinnen und Schüler
  mit Migrationshintergrund. (Transitions
  Educational barriers for pupils with a migrant
  background) - In Erziehung und Unterricht,
  Österreichische Pädagogische Zeitschrift, Heft
  März/April 3 - 4/06, öbv hpt VerlagsgmbH Co.
  KG, Wien, S. 330 337.
• Griebel, Wilfried Niesel, Renate (2004)
  Transitionen. Fähigkeit von Kindern in
  Tageseinrichtungen fördern, Veränderungen
  eerfolgreich zu bewältigen. (Transitions. To
  support the ability of kids within educational
  institutions, to be successful in dealing with
  changes). Beltz.