Courses

Course is a part of umbrella title " Inclusion and exclusion in societies 2", focuses on (Re-)Negotiating Inclusive Education in Changing Societies. Classes are taught at the University of Bielefeld. The course "(Re-)Negotiating Inclusive Education in Changing Societies" aims to provide students with the competencies required for theoretically informed analysis of societal issues related to inclusive education. By the end of the module, students will be able to apply classical and contemporary theories, such as theories of inequality, critical theories, theories of difference, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, queer and feminist theories, to conduct case studies and analyze discourses, and structures of inequality in childhood and youth. Students will be able to investigate systematically how educational structures, institutions, and practices, along with social policies and welfare systems, simultaneously produce and contest inequalities. They can articulate the ambivalences and paradoxes inherent in strategies of inclusion within changing societies. Throughout the course, students develop the skill to critically evaluate how normative orders including gender, class, nationalism become institutionalized in policies, pedagogical practices, and everyday routines. Students gain the tools to analyze how boundaries, privileges, and access to resources are created, sustained, and challenged through credentialing practices, categorization processes, and the (unequal) distribution of institutional support. Moreover, students reflect critically on their own professional roles and responsibilities in either reproducing or challenging the intersecting structures of domination that affect children and youth. They learn to consider how theory-informed, reflexive, and power-sensitive perspectives can inform more rights-based and inclusive approaches in educational settings, while remaining alert to the ways in which well-intentioned practices may inadvertently reproduce exclusion.