Science prize goes to doctoral student from Kassel

Dr. Yasemin Uçan's work "Erziehungsziel Mehrsprachigkeit. A Qualitative Study on Education and Parenting in the Context of Migration", she found out how diverse and differentiated parents' perspectives on family multilingualism are and how much (invisible) work and reflective effort goes into the multilingual education of the child. So far, little is known about these processes in science and the public. She hopes for more recognition and social appreciation of the topic of parenting and multilingualism in the context of migration.

The processing required the linking of different theoretical and disciplinary approaches and approaches. Her research was characterized by a multilingual approach in the collection and analysis of the interviews, which was accompanied by many methodological and methodological questions and reflections on understanding, not understanding and translating. The award thus also signifies an appreciation of multilingual research.

Uçan submitted her 2020 dissertation to the Department of Human Sciences at the University of Kassel, where she was a research assistant. She was supervised by Prof. Dr. Manuela Westphal, head of the Department of Socialization with a focus on migration and intercultural education at the Institute of Social Sciences.

In the future, she would like to scientifically explore the interconnectedness of languages and biographies. Based on the findings of her dissertation, research will follow on how language-related experiences of speakers of migration and minority languages are negotiated in their own (also family) biographies. Methodological and methodological questions of multilingual research will continue to accompany her.

Augsburg Science Award for Intercultural Studies

The Augsburg Science Award for Intercultural Studies, which was first announced in 1997 on the initiative of the founder of FiLL e. V., the entrepreneur and later Augsburg Peace Prize laureate Helmut Hartmann, honors outstanding achievements by young scholars whose research deals with the intercultural reality in Germany and the related questions and challenges.

The competition is open to all academic disciplines and aims to reward interdisciplinary and innovative research. The awarding of the prize is intended to provide incentives for thematically relevant research work and to particularly promote intercultural issues. This is connected with the concern that science provides research results that contribute to a better understanding of a society characterized by "diversity" and the forms of organization that become necessary here.

Contact:

Sebastian Mense
University of Kassel
Communication, Press and Public Relations
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