One of the aspects of diversity in the context of school and education and therefore a facet of inclusion is migration-related multilingualism. That is the reason why the professionalization of well-qualified teachers in the field of teaching multilingual learners is more important than ever. This article shows if and how satisfied the participating teachers are with the course program. It also indicates how far the competencies and beliefs regarding multilingual learners in the professional development program »German as a foreign and second language and multilingualism« develop throughout the program. A survey on satisfaction has been conducted. Data concerning competencies have been collected with a paper and pencil test, beliefs with a questionnaire. The article provides content-related and conceptual insights for different learning settings and their evaluation and therefore serves the demand for innovative and effective course concepts. Hence, it offers new ideas and impulses for (further) development of learning opportunities for professional development and also teacher training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Based on the vagueness of the term of inclusion, the present paper aims to introduce a concept of inclusion, which regards inclusion as a process of deconstructing barriers of participation that prevent subjects from participating in discourse. It is argued that inclusion and disability must be considered as two interrelated practices, which can only be consistently understood and finally used in research and practice if viewed in their interrelationship. If inclusion is regarded as a process of deconstructing barriers that prevent subjects from participating in discourse, the concept has therefore to be contrasted with an understanding of disability that refers to disability as a practice respectively as the subject being excluded from discourse. This paper focuses on providing both a theoretical as well as an empirical analysis of both concepts, highlighting their mutual interdependency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Research about teaching competencies in the context of inclusion focuses so far attitudes and does not take adequate account of professional knowledge. This paper investigates what kind of knowledge is relevant from the view of teachers in practice to handle inclusion in schools. Interviews of 53 teachers of different types of school were analysed qualitatively with a literature based category system. First, the perspective of all interviewed teachers is presented. It follows an analysis, which regards the type of school and the level of school development. Our results show that teachers use the categories, which are abstracted from the research literature. These categories need to be supplemented by inductive categories. There is a difference between the types of school, and a relation between school context and professional development of individual teachers. This could be discussed as a specific indication for teacher trainings, which aim to foster inclusive competencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]