@book{Winkler2019, author = {Winkler, Kathrin}, title = {The Relevance of Religion in the Public Sphere - Religion and Migration in Educational Systems}, doi = {10.17883/fet-schriften037}, series = {Forschung, Entwicklung, Transfer - N{\"u}rnberger Hochschulschriften}, number = {37}, publisher = {Evangelische Hochschule N{\"u}rnberg}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Current Social and Educational Situation in Germany Schools in German immigration society must struggle with a lot of challenges. About one third of the refugees are school-age children and youth. At least 300,000 of them have entered the German educational system. Every third child has a migration biography and teachers are often hardly prepared to deal with these conditions. Many of the refugee and displaced children and youth come from Arabic countries. They bring along their Muslim religion and culture into a secular society formerly moulded by Christianity. This situation requires a lot of special accommodations. Besides language barriers and being mindful of their traumatic experiences, teachers need to be sensitive in particular with intercultural and interreligious conflict situations. According to the survey "Teacher Training in an Immigrant Society" 2016 , it is expected that they provide individual aid to the increasing number of young refugees and children who need assistance. The expectations are high, but the teachers receive very little support. The authors of the study, the Mercator Institute at Cologne University and the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration, asserts that despite the normal case of diversity in classrooms, apprenticeship and in-service learning concepts for teachers are not modified accordingly. The survey revealed that deficits are evident in teacher education in German states and the lacks are responsible for this situation.}, subject = {Religion}, language = {en} }