Langenohl, A (2021) Racism, discrimination, and diversity in Hamburg's schools: an investigation on how Germany's colonial past and diverse society is integrated into Hamburg's high schools. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
The dominant historical narrative in Hamburg, Germany is White, leaving People of Colour out. As a result, Hamburg's students are exposed to a version of history that does not reflect the diversity that they experience and represent. Consequently, this research investigates “How Germany’s colonial past and diverse society are integrated into Hamburg’s high schools”. This thesis offers a systematic analysis of this phenomenon based on new data derived from a) curricular analysis; b) interviews with teachers; c) surveys with a broad cross-section of students. By integrating the three types of data, a holistic portrait of race and education in Hamburg can be generated. The findings reveal that Germany's colonial past and diverse society are insufficiently integrated into Hamburg’s high schools. The topics of racism, discrimination, and diversity are not explicitly integrated into the history curricula (Section 4.1). The interviews (Section 4.2) stressed the considerable lack of knowledge within teachers training and within schools about racism, discrimination, and diversity. Finally, students and graduates (Section 4.3) self-reported knowledge about the origins of racism is good. Regardless, they did not feel schools sufficiently provided related knowledge. Keywords: Hamburg’s high schools; Germany’s colonial past; racism, diversity, education
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Emlen, N.Q. and Amelsvoort, J.D. van |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Sep 2021 08:45 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2021 08:45 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/86 |
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