{"id":4150,"date":"2025-03-05T16:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/ivb\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2025-04-24T09:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:53:26","slug":"migrant-parents-in-german-education-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/ivb\/en\/migrant-parents-in-german-education-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant Parents in German Education Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Parents with a Migration Background in the Educational Policy Discourse of the Federal Republic of Germany<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udccc <strong>Project Lead:<\/strong> Mechtild Gomolla and Ellen Kollender<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Project Description<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent decades, <strong>enhancing parental involvement<\/strong> has been widely regarded as a <strong>key strategy<\/strong> for improving student learning outcomes\u2014particularly in schools with a <strong>high proportion of children from migrant backgrounds<\/strong> and\/or <strong>economically disadvantaged families<\/strong>. This involvement is often framed in terms of <strong>\u201cpartnership\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201ccooperation\u201d<\/strong>, but these concepts encompass <strong>various meanings and strategies<\/strong> that do not always align with social justice goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In reality, <strong>parental engagement initiatives<\/strong> can sometimes <strong>reinforce segregation<\/strong>, rather than promote inclusion, when they are based on <strong>paternalistic attitudes, deficit-oriented perspectives, or cultural stereotypes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Research Approach<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This study conducted a <strong>discourse analysis of educational and integration policy documents<\/strong> from the <strong>1950s to the present<\/strong>, examining how <strong>the image of foreign parents<\/strong> or <strong>parents with a migration background<\/strong> has evolved in relation to schools in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key aspects analyzed in this study include:<br>\u2714 Tensions, contradictions, and gaps in current parental involvement strategies<br>\u2714 Shifts in <strong>integration policy discourse<\/strong><br>\u2714 The emergence of <strong>new post-welfare state forms of education governance<\/strong><br>\u2714 Transformations in <strong>the public sphere in the context of schools<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents with a Migration Background in the Educational Policy Discourse of the Federal Republic of Germany \ud83d\udccc Project Lead: Mechtild Gomolla and Ellen Kollender Project Description In recent decades, enhancing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,7],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-completed-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/ivb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/ivb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/ivb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/ivb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/ivb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/ivb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/ivb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/ivb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/ivb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/ivb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}