Action and Reaction: A Documentary Film on Discrimination Experiences of Young Adults

Author(s):

Wiebke Scharathow(presenting / submitting)Rudolf Leiprecht

Conference:

ECER 2011

Network:

7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education

Format:

Paper

Session Information

07 SES 05 A, Voices of Youngsters on Citizenship and Exclusion

Paper Session

Time:

2011-09-14

10:30-12:00

Room:

KL 24/122c,G, 43

Chair:

Yvonne Leeman

Contribution

The subject matter of our presentation is a research project which deals with discrimination experiences of young people in Germany. We assume that these experiences are deployed in a context of social inequality; that subject positions are marked by overlapping (ascribed) categories of difference (ethnicity, class, gender, generation, etc.) and that these have implications for young people’s development of counter strategies for dealing with discrimination. In this context we investigate the actors’ “management to belonging” and their own discriminatory patterns of thinking and acting. The study aims at enhancing theory and practice of diversity education by including our research findings on young adults’ dealing with discrimination.

Method

Our project is characterized by a specific research design: The data collection took place in two phases. In the first phase, interviews and group discussions were conducted with 15 young people, followed up by a first interim analysis on the basis of which a documentary film is produced (“If they do not want to listen” - 25 min, English subtitles). The film is both an intermediate in the research process and a means for further research. At the same time it is also used within diversity education. In the second phase, the film is used as a trigger for further group discussions and interviews with adolescents (n = 400) in schools and youth centers. In addition these adolescents are also interviewed with the instrument of a short questionnaire survey.

Expected Outcomes

It turned out that using the film in different settings for research and/or within diversity education provoked very different reactions that are worth looking at. Our talk therefore focuses on some of our experiences with reactions on and discussions of the film in different settings and with different audiences and their interpretations.

References

Leiprecht, Rudolf (2001): Alltagsrassismus. Eine Untersuchung bei Jugendlichen in Deutschland und den Niederlanden. Münster: Waxmann. Leiprecht, Rudolf (2006): Zum Umgang mit Rassismen in Schule und Unterricht. In: Leiprecht, Rudolf/ Kerber, Anne (Hrsg.): Schule in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Schwalbach i.T.: Wochenschau. S. 317-345. Leiprecht, Rudolf/Lutz, Helma (2009): Rassismus - Sexismus - Intersektionalität. In: Melter, Claus/Mecheril, Paul (Hrsg.) (2009): Rassismuskritik Band I: Rassismustheorie und Rassismusforschung. Schwalbach /Ts.: Wochenschauverlag. S. 179-198. Melter, Claus (2006): Rassismuserfahrungen in der Jugendhilfe. Eine empirische Studie zu Kommunikationspraxen in der Sozialen Arbeit. Münster: Waxmann. Räthzel, Nora (2003): Zweischneidige Strategien. Rassismus und Ethnizität im Alltag von Jugendlichen aus Einwandererfamilien. In: Bund demokratischer Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler (BdWi) (Hrsg.): Forum Wissenschaft. Heft 1/2003: Die Ethnisierung sozialer Konflikte.

Author Information

Wiebke Scharathow (presenting / submitting)

University of Oldenburg

Department of Education

Oldenburg

Rudolf Leiprecht

University of Oldenburg, Germany

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