Education to the World? An Ethnographic Study on Socialization of Children and Adolescents in Family and School Supplementing or Replacing Contexts

Professional educators pass on their concepts of the world and society explicitly or implicitly to children and young people. Current discourses in Social Pedagogy use concepts as "integration capacity" and "equal opportunities" to call for support for children who are particularly disadvantaged in society. « Proper upbringing » and « successful socialisation » are primarily thought of in relation to vocational training and self-technologies. Society itself, and thus the prerequisites for education, is hardly addressed any more. With this fading out, an important socio-educational strand of knowledge on education seems to be lost. Whether and how the lack of thematization of this educational aspect affects practical work with children and young people is at the center of our ongoing research project. The main questions focus on how and in what ways specialists establish relations between subject and world in everyday educational life, and what ideas of world and subject underlie these? Based on ethnographic approach, we will discuss our findings with regard to what significance do these findings have for the socialization of children and young people? And what this means for growing into a global, diverse society? For this purpose, we investigate a children`s and youth hostel, a school home, a vocational integration home, a crèche and a forest playgroup.