Kulturkampf vs. Bildungskampf in der Migrationsgesellschaft? Das neue Gesicht der Bildungsbenachteiligung: Wie die Arbeitertochter vom Land zum Migrantensohn geworden ist

The new aspect of educational disadvantage: How a working class daughter from the countryside turned into a migrant’s son

Abstract

The present article is meant to be a critical discussion of the book Cultural clash in the classroomby Susanne Wiesinger. Based on my thesis in educational sciences Educational upward with migrant background, the attempt was undertaken to analyse selected experiences, arguments and conclusions from Wieseinger’s book in a scientifically critical way. This piece of writing focuses on essential topics i.e. education and migration as well as the relating discussions concerning the integration of second generation Turkish migrants into Austrian society. In this context, Islam plays an important role as its influence on migrants is perceived and discussed in an ambivalent way by the Austrian public. Based on the central findings of my thesis, I selected some paragraphs of the book that are legitimate subjects for debate and investigated upon them critically. It is not claimed that the book as a whole was analysed or that an apologetic attitude towards Wiesinger’s notion was taken. The centre of attention is a critical discussion from the view point of migration and educational research that considers the complex educational progress of second generation Turkish children and adolescents with migration background and that formulates pedagogically relevant impulses or to be precise thoughts on how to improve the educational situation of children and adolescents with migration status instead of focusing existing shortcomings.