Professionalisierung von Lehrpersonen in der Migrationsgesellschaft unter dem Aspekt der Diversitätssensibilisierung

In a globalized world, in which migration has a decisive influence on social reality, cultural as well as linguistic diversity have become a natural part of our everyday life. At School as a social institution, children and young adults meet with their diverse cultural, religious and familial interests and traditions. School education has to reflect the heterogeneity of cultures, languages, and lifestyles, and has to consider the “other” as a contribution to identity and personality development, especially because different patterns of orientation and action have a central influence on individual as well as group-related meaning making. In this context, didactic material for the application in lessons has a great impact. This paper discusses, first, the results of an analysis of texts and images in primary and secondary textbooks with regard to dealing with migration-related heterogeneity in a diversity sensitive way and, secondly, follows the hypothesis that a realignment of teachers’ professionalization in the handling of heterogenization is essential, so that pupils receive support in order to think beyond cultural grid systems and to sensitize them in all areas of learning and life for a constructive interaction in the world society.