Hybrid event on Jineolojî

Fri 13 Dec 2024 16:00-18:00

The event will deal with the background and basics of Jineolojî and the Kurdish women's movement. What does Jineolojî mean? What role do knowledge and science play in the process of social liberation? What strategies do we have to organise ourselves together in times of war and global political, ecological and social crises in order to create liberal alternatives?

How to live, what to do and where to start?

Location: TU Darmstadt S1/13 Room 6 (Alexanderstr. 6, ground floor; Darmstadt)

Zoom: https://tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/69980607288

Meeting ID: 699 8060 7288

Ort: TU Darmstadt S1/13 Raum 6 (Alexanderstr. 6 im EG; Darmstadt)

Zoom: https://tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/69980607288

Meeting-ID: 699 8060 7288

Contactt: tatjana.kasatschenko@tu-…

Digital Talk – Experiences of discrimination and ways of dealing with discrimination at universities

Tuesday, 26 November 2024 | 14:00 – 16:00 hrs

The event follows on from the specialist forum on anti-discrimination, which took place in spring 2024 at TU Darmstadt in spring 2024 and explores the questions raised there in greater depth:

• How widespread are experiences of discrimination at universities?
• What categories of difference underlie experiences of discrimination?
• Which marginalisations and exclusions are experienced during studies and in experienced during studies and in academia?
• What effects do experiences of discrimination have on the sense of belonging to the university?
• What ways of dealing with discrimination exist?
• And which anti-discrimination strategies are effective?

Fatma Aslan (AStA anti-discrimination officer), Lea Belz (Diversity Education Office), Dr Z. Ece Kaya (Project: Diversity educates!), Márcia Moser (Anti-discrimination officer) will address these questions.

Susanne Pawlewicz (Project: Confronting Classism: Promoting Participation and Equal Opportunities at the University) and Kassandra Wuttig (Project: Confronting Classism: Promoting Participation and Equal Opportunities at the University; moderator).

The event is aimed at TU members of all status groups. External participants are also welcome.

Zoom access: https://tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/81299785365?pwd=YzdSek9GMTBLaEZUSStUUTlOcXA4dz09

In cooperation between the Institute for General Education and Vocational Education at TU Darmstadt

- the migrant self-organisations GinCo e. V. and Roza e. V.,

- the self-organisation Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland Bund e.V. ,

- the Association of German Sinti and Roma – Regional Association of Hesse,

- the Anne Frank Educational Centre and

- the Heinrich-Emanuel-Merck-School Darmstadt

- the Bertolt-Brecht-School Darmstadt

- the Bergstraße School Village

the project aims to develop and test educational programmes that enable educational confrontation with racism and discriminatory structures at various levels. In this way, the expertise of civil society self-organisations is to be recognised and the broadest possible target group reached. Academic approaches to the topic of racism are deliberately combined with non-university educational work and the university as a place of education is opened up to diverse perspectives. The project is also a member of the South Hesse Anti-Discrimination Network.

In line with the basic participatory approach, collaboration with various co-operation partners plays a key role in the ‘Diversity educates!’ project. The Anne Frank Educational Centre as a non-university educational institution and the Association of German Sinti and Roma – State Association of Hesse as the representative body of the Sinti and Roma minority living in Hesse are important players in the joint work on and with offers in the field of racism criticism and enable a broad spectrum of thematic focuses and educational formats. In addition, the organisations GinCo e.V., Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland Bund e.V. and Roza e.V. are also involved in the project, each of which has a different focus and is politically committed to social participation and against discrimination. The cooperation with the Heinrich-Emanuel-Merck-Schule, the Bertolt-Brecht-Schule and the Schuldorf Bergstraße, which serves as a learning environment for prospective teachers, also makes it possible to bring the thematic focus of the project to pupils and teachers. In this way, reciprocal – often hidden and unconscious – discrimination processes in their own institutions (school/university) can be revealed and starting points for change can be identified.

The aim of the project is to create educational programmes that are critical of racism within and outside the university together with the cooperation partners and to open up the university to civil society actors through different concepts and formats, as well as to expand the university's radius of action in society. This is done with the aim of dismantling racist structures in society as a whole and in educational institutions in particular.

Multipliers in educational work with children, young people and/or adults make a decisive contribution to maintaining dominant knowledge in central educational institutions. Racist, but also heteronormative structures are an integral part of existing knowledge systems in relation to (non-)belonging and play a significant role in shaping educational institutions such as schools as well as extracurricular educational institutions. Implicit knowledge about ‘others’ has an effect in curricular educational content on the one hand, but also in the everyday processes and routines of educational institutions on the other (cf. Broden/Mecheril 2010; Gomolla/Radtke 2007), and this is particularly profound due to their function as ‘knowledge mediators’. Current research findings on the views of educators with regard to the topic of migration make it clear that a reflexive and anti-discriminatory approach and the necessary debate is still far from being the norm or an integral part of the profession and (university) education (cf. Doğmuş/Karakaşoğlu/Mecheril 2016; Leiprecht/Steinbach 2015).

In schools in particular, a deficit-oriented view of migration still often dominates, which has a considerable influence on both the expectations of pupils and parents and the judgement of teachers. At the same time, it is clear that even university teaching is not free from (unconscious) racist patterns of differentiation, which can also contribute to an unequal distribution of educational opportunities between students. Attributions to students based on skin colour, religious and cultural affiliation, national origin, etc. often go hand in hand with derogatory assumptions and assessments of their social behaviour, performance and general predictions about ‘ability’ and potential.

The ‘Diversity educates!’ project regularly designs various formats for educational events.

To this end, the practical laboratory of the Institute of General and Vocational Education always works together with at least one of the co-operation bodies involved in the project. Among other things, seminars are jointly prepared for the pedagogical major study programmes and teacher training courses at the TU and corresponding teaching assignments are awarded.