EmParti: Mentoring for Migrant Teachers
Migrant – Female – Strong! Empowerment and Participation through Mentoring for Migrant Female Student Teachers and Teachers
Project at a Glance
Project Description
Teachers with an immigration history are often attributed a role-model function and particular biographical resources in education policy, which are expected to support better educational participation among students perceived as migrant. Since 2007, several federal government initiatives have explicitly recruited teachers with a migration background as part of efforts to promote the so-called intercultural opening of schools and to improve educational opportunities for students perceived as migrant.
Nevertheless, the enrolment rate of people perceived as migrant in educational science and teacher education programmes remains low. The project first aims to investigate the educational barriers experienced by female student teachers and teachers perceived as migrant in their educational trajectories and biographies. By focusing on women, the project pays particular attention to the intersectionality and multidimensionality of gender-stereotyping and ethnicising attributions.
In a second step, EmParti seeks to develop a participatory educational, mentoring, and networking programme for female student teachers, trainee teachers, and teachers perceived as migrant in Lower Saxony. The programme addresses experienced attributions, reflects on them critically, and, in the spirit of empowerment, opens up spaces for the professionalisation of biographical resources such as “multilingualism”, “intercultural competence”, and others.
Organisation
Sponsors
The project “Meta-project Migration, Integration, and Participation in Education” is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Family, Seniors, Women, and Youth and the European Union through the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus) as part of the “Integration through Education” program.
