General Pedagogy and Diversity Education

Diversity plays a central role in upbringing, learning, and education – it is always a matter of seeking and finding a bridge from the known and familiar to the new and unfamiliar. Every learning effort, every pedagogical intervention, and every educational endeavor requires people to question the familiar and to engage with the new – be it children or young people and adults, pupils and teachers, social groups, linguistic minorities and majorities, ethnic groups and nations.

Different approaches and topics converge in the field of “General Pedagogy and Diversity Education”. What they have in common is the perception and critical reflection of the conditions of upbringing, learning, and education of people and social groups in their diversity and particularity. The problems arising due to social and school inclusion along various lines of difference (language, origin, socio-economic conditions, gender, culture, religion, disability/giftedness) are not considered in isolation from each other, but are related through approaches of intercultural learning and transcultural models of understanding.