Patterns of segregation are common in early childhood education across Germany, with research suggesting that selection processes are a potential key to understanding this phenomenon. Within the diversity of providers, parents' initiatives have a particularly low proportion of children from different backgrounds.
But who actually decides which families are accepted into parents' initiatives - and according to which criteria? In my bachelor's thesis, I investigated how understandings of diversity influence selection practices in Neukölln parents' initiatives through qualitative interviews with decision-makers and the analysis of organizational documents.
In this talk, I will present key findings that reveal the complex mechanisms that shape access to early childhood education: Who has decision-making power? What role do organizational structures play? And how are diversity ideals put into practice - or not.
This event will take place as a hybrid event, i.e. participation is possible online and on site!
Speaker: Kerem Blumberg (childhood educator, former student on the "Education and Training in Childhood - professionally integrated" course at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences)
