Changing perspectives

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The Institute for International Cooperation in Education is engaged in the topics migration and education. It develops ways to sensitise teachers and education professionals to the specifics of education in the context of migration and to successfully handle diversity at school. Focus areas are social inequalities, equal opportunities in education, interculturalism, racism, belonging and othering, intersectionality and diversity.

IZB conducts research on these topics, is engaged in development and cooperation projects with local school partners and offers pre-service and in-service courses. It also provides services and consultancy to interested education institutions and individuals in these areas of expertise.  

Projects:

• Good Practices in Handling Diversity and Social Inequalities – Research and development project
• Parents and schools in the context of societal inequality relations - A subjectivation-theory and biography-theory oriented study
• «Nightingale» – Mentoring project
• «On second thought» - Case studies from primary schools in handling cultural diversity
• Teachers with a so-called immigrant background - Research project

Teaching:

• CAS «German as a Second Language and Interculturality»
• CAS «Intercultural Coaching» and MAS «Intercultural Coaching and Supervision» in cooperation with Coaching Zentrum Olten