Manfred Oberlechner-Duval 
Overcoming the Deficit View of the Migrant Other [PDF ebook] 
Notes for a Humanist Pedagogy in a Migration Society

What contribution can a humanistic pedagogy make in the context of a migration society? The author uses three examples to illustrate the deficit-oriented pressure to assimilate that foreigners are often subjected to: the Chicago School of immigration studies, the ’2008 Integration Plan’ of the Austrian federal state of Salzburg, and Hartmut Esser’s phases of integration. The illustrative critique of these models is primarily based on Edward W. Said’s theory of ’othering’, Zygmunt Bauman’s diagnoses of modernity, and the socially critical reflections of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno. In this way, the author develops components for a humanistic education within a migration society and presenting it as a universalistic alternative to the prevailing particularistic approaches in contemporary educational theory.

Innehållsförteckning

I. Introduction<br>II. Deficit-oriented assimilative pressure on migrant others:
The Chicago School of immigration studies, Hartmut Esser’s assimilative integration concept, the ’integration plan’ of the federal state of Salzburg, 2008<br /><br>
II.1. The Chicago School of immigration studies<br>
II.2. Hartmut Esser’s phased integration plan <br /><br>II.3. The ’integration plan’ of the federal state of Salzburg, 2008 <br /><br>III. Criticism of the deficit-oriented assimilative pressure on migrant others:
Edward Wadie Said’s deconstruction of an essentializing ’othering’ and Zygmunt Bauman’s diagnoses of ’liquid’ foreignness<br>III.1. Edward Wadie Said’s deconstruction of ’inferior identity'<br>III.2. Zygmunt Bauman’s ’liquid’ constructions of foreignness <br /><br>
IV. Implications for a humanist pedagogy in a migration society <br /><br>IV.1. Humanism and pedagogy
IV.2. Specific challenges for pedagogy <br /><br>IV.3. The fear of the foreign other <br /><br>IV.4. Inclusion and foreignness <br /><br>IV.5. Concluding thoughts <br /><br>
V. Conclusion <br /><br>VI. Bibliography


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Om författaren

Prof. Dr. phil. Manfred Oberlechner-Duval is Professor for Sociology of Education and Migration at Stefan Zweig University of Education, Salzburg, Austria.