Schools and Museums Conference Working Groups

Raising Awareness of Diversity

Working Group Report, group with Dr. Czarina Wilpert (Eine Welt der Vielfalt e. V.) and Grit Gottschalk (Ernst-Schering-Schule, Berlin), moderator: Meral El (Jewish Museum Berlin)

A Three-Perspective Approach

Bringing Together an Interculturally Aware School, a Diversity-Focused Museum, and Anti-Discrimination Education, panel with Zahide Doğaç, Ibrahim Gülnar and Leontine Meijer-van Mensch, moderator: Dr. Rosa Fava

Language across the Curriculum

Report on a Working Group by Lilo Martens

Learning to Talk about Racist Discrimination

Report on a Working Group by Toan Nguyen

Exhibitions are Created by Museums, Right? On the Varied Significance of Exhibitions for Schools

Working Group Report, group with Petra Zwaka, Silvia Linnenbürger and Jutta Dücker, moderator: Dr. Diana Dressel

Diversity through Participation: How Student Participation Can Help Schools Manage Diversity Effectively

Working Group Report, group with Karin Schreibeis and Sandra Christall, moderator: Andrea Blaneck

Learning about History in a Multiethnic Society

Working Group Report, with inputs by Dr. Elke Gryglewski (Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, Berlin), Selman Erkovan (educational consultant, Berlin) and Fabian Schnedler (Jewish Museum Berlin), moderator: Ulrike Wagner (University of Leipzig)

Diversity in Literature for Young People

Working Group Report, impulses by André Barth (Ernst-Schering-Oberschule, Berlin), Ulrich Hipler (B.-Traven-Oberschule, Berlin) and Nina Wilkens (Jewish Museum Berlin)

How Can Political Leaders and Society Support Intercultural Awareness at Schools?

Report on a Panel Discussion with Özcan Mutlu, Evelin Lubig-Fohsel, André Barth and Dr. Diana Dressel, moderator: Dr. Nkechi Madubuko

Video
13 Oct 2014

Fond of Difference and Critical of Discrimination: The Challenges Facing Educational Institutions in a Multiethnic Society

Report on a Talk by Professor Paul Mecheril (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg), followed by a discussion led by Dr. Anja Durdel (German Children and Youth Foundation)

Video
14 Oct 2014

Opportunities, Challenges, and Approaches to Successful Collaboration between Schools and Museums

Report on the World Café, moderator: Jutta Weimar

“We want to change things – but only with the help of others!”

Working Group Report, input by Andrea Blaneck, moderator: Marlous Behrendt (both: Deutsche Kinder- und Jugendstiftung, Berlin)

Caught between Identification and External Perceptions: What Constitutes “School”?

Working Group Report, inputs by Heinrich Meise (Refik-Veseli-Sekundarschule, Berlin), Markus Schega and Dr. Michael Senn (Nürtingen Grundschule, Berlin), and Friedhelm Botsch (Hermann-Hesse-Schule, Berlin), moderator: Meral El (Jewish Museum Berlin)

Educational Theater: Methods and Approaches for Educators in Schools and Museums

Working Group Report, group with Laura Söllner, Anja Scheffer, Heidemarie Link and Eva Albert , moderator: Dr. Diana Dressel

Working with Biographies to Increase Cultural Awareness

Working Group Report, group with Franziska Bogdanov, Beate Klammt, Rainer Brieske and Michael Merbitz, moderator: Sarah Hiron

Film as a Method in Anti-Discrimination Education

Working Group Report, group with Gunnar Meyer and Vera March-Berg, moderator: Fabian Schnedler

Marginalized Biographies: Using the Life Stories of Jews, Roma, and Sinti in Educational Work

Working Group Report, group with Steffen Jost and Katharina Obens, moderator: Ulrike Wagner (University of Leipzig)

Antisemitism in Social Media

Working Group Report, group with Gabriele Rohmann and Martin Gegenheimer (Archiv der Jugendkulturen e. V., Berlin), André Barth (Ernst-Schering-Oberschule, Berlin) and Martina Brandes-Parow (B.-Traven-Oberschule, Berlin), moderator: Jutta Weimar

Schools and Museums in a Society Shaped by Migration

Reflections on the Conference, moderators: Dr. Anja Durdel (Deutsche Kinder- und Jugendstiftung) and Tanja Petersen (Jewish Museum Berlin)