Diversity as an Opportunity

When an Ethnic Majority Feels Pushed Aside

St. Petersburg is a city that has always been proud of its cultural heritage, a city where people with different nationalities and religions have lived together in peace. But in recent years, this city has seen a series of attacks on migrants and foreign students.

Education – An Intercultural Mission

Christoph Wulf

In view of globalisation and Europeanisation, education today is more than ever an intercultural mission. In going beyond the boundaries of local culture, education has to combine the perspectives of cultural diversity with the perspectives of globalisation.

Managing Diversity

Slogan, Management Concept or Sociopolitical Necessity?

Whether in non-profit organisations, in commercial enterprises, in public service or in tertiary education – managing diversity seems to have become an accepted element of many organisational cultures.

Cultural Education with Schools at Austrian Federal Museums

This Concerns Me, Too!

Museums are not necessarily places that young people flock to in droves in their spare time. When young people go to museums, they seldom go on their own, but rather with their parents or as part of a school field trip. And when they are inside a museum, the question they frequently ask (or think) is “What does this have to do with me?”

“Interculturality and Multilingualism – an Opportunity”

Building Bridges with Language

The first-grade children at Landeck-Perjen primary school take turns wearing a blindfold and guessing what object they have in their hands – a pencil, an apple, a bear?

Diversity and Inclusion in the Context of Education

Norbert Pauser

In the mid-1990s, the social systems theorist Niklas Luhmann predicted that the questions of inclusion and exclusion would become a central issue in the 21st century. In point of fact, various processes of (dis)integration are becoming increasingly evident and/or proceeding at a rapid pace.

Und plötzlich Diversität!

Seher Çakır

Wenn wir uns die Geschichte der Menschheit anschauen, sehen wir, dass Migration immer schon statt gefunden hat. Migration hat Gesellschaften seit jeher geprägt. Auch die unsere.

Multilingualism versus “German, our One and Only”?

Georg Gombos

In allusion to Wittgenstein, one might say that the world of a multilingual person is different from that of someone monolingual. For a multilingual person, communicating in two or more languages is part of everyday normality;

“Translation is the Language of the Future” 

What does diversity mean in the broad field of literary exchange, particularly in relation to translation subsidies?

School – Education – Migration

Mikael Luciak

At Austrian compulsory schools, the first language of one out of five pupils – in Vienna, one out of two – is not German. Turkish and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian are among the most common first languages of pupils with migration backgrounds.

Language Diversity: Unused Capital in a Complex Society

Rüdiger Teutsch of the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture and the rapper Nazar on strategies of intercultural education policy and their practical effects...