DPT-TV: How to foster democracy and social cohesion in schools

Programme for our international audience on October 19

11.00 am CEST
News and reports from the field of prevention
Every Wednesday DPT-TV presents 10 minutes of “DPT-News” reporting and discussing current prevention topics. The DPT-News part is freely accessibly and does not require registration. Find all the past DPT-News on our Youtube Channel. From April onwards DPT-News are translated into English.

11.10 am CEST
Narrative Group Work in Schools as pedagogical method for inclusive citizenship in times of disintegrating democracies and polarisation
(Dr. habil. Harald Weilnböck, Cultures Interactive e.V.)

“Intensified civic education” and its urgency for sustainably preventing violent extremism, group-focused hatred and conspiracy theories in schools are explained in view of the Narrative Group Work in Schools approach (NGW). NGW provides the narratologically facilitated, mediational setting of a „safe space“ provided by external facilitators who give students – esp. in social hot spot schools – the opportunity to learn to speak completely openly, engage in trustful dialogue and share thoughts, impressions and personal experiences without taboos. Methodologically, NGW is based on proven principles of narrative interviewing and self-awareness groups as known from social therapy. Flexible group divisions and an accompanied time-out area ensure impact and protection. An interface both to youth welfare interventions, as distancing/exit work, and to the school’s subject teaching support the impact of civic education. For, the overarching perspective is to foster 'emotional political intelligence' and democratic resilience, especially among hard-to-reach youth susceptible to violent extremism. The reconstruction of a group session, in which a brazen Holocaust denial had emerged, illustrates both methodology and potential of NGW. For the group process quickly opened up to issues of the village, family and individual predicament behind these statements and could resolve them to a great extent.
 

11.40 am CEST
Early interventions of right-wing extremism prevention in the context of schools and youth work
(Silke Baer, cultures interactive e.V)

Based on current practical experience in youth work and prevention, the lecture presents different types of right-wing extremist children and young people. Their personality traits, life circumstances and possibilities of pedagogical intervention will be discussed. A central question is how approaches of “early intervention” or event-related prevention can take place within the regular structures of school education and municipal youth welfare, what quality criteria they are subject to - and to what extent they can be implemented in practice. To this end, legal expertise is also presented that clarifies the relationship between the constitutional mandate to educate and the parental right to educate, and in doing so clarifies the framework and the possibilities of event-related prevention offers on behalf of schools and youth work. The previous findings are in the context of the “Fachstelle Rechtsextremismusprävention” of Cultures Interactive e.V., as part of the competence network for the prevention of right-wing extremism KOMPREX, which is funded by the federal programme “Demokratie leben!”

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