Identity Education in Multicultural Germany

• Autores: Sigrid Luchtenberg
• Localización: Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, ISSN 0143-4632, Vol. 19, Nº. 1, 1998, págs. 51-63
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper addresses conditions of identity education in Germany within the framework of multicultural education. The author focuses on the interaction theory of Krappmann (1971), which provides a framework for dealing with the necessities of identity education for migrant and German students. After outlining the new challenges for identity education in Germany caused by globalisation, European development, national unification and immigration, the author discusses the role of language within identity development. In the main section of the paper, the importance of identity education for migrant students and German students living together in a multicultural society is discussed. It is concluded that identity education for all students must focus on a multilayered or multicultural identity in order to enable all students to develop role distance, ambiguity tolerance, empathy and presentation of identity.