Educational sciences

Children go their own way

Transition and transitional education

Admission requirements

STEOP, Choice of specialisation

Semester: 6 - Wahlpflichtfach

Orientation

Diversity

Aim

Migration and inclusion are the overarching themes of the two courses "Children overcoming crises" and "Children going their own way". Both present examples of educational biographical transitions and crisis-related challenges faced by children of pre-school and school age. On the one hand, the aim is to provide students with factual knowledge and contextual information on school transitions and crisis-related challenges in childhood and adolescence. On the other hand, and also in the sense of developing a profession-specific professional ethos, possibilities for appropriate support for children in and out of school during biographical transitions and in various demanding life situations are to be presented.

Content

• Concepts of school and non-school transitions in the educational biography of children
• Kindergarten and school law (compulsory last year of kindergarten, observations and transition portfolio in kindergarten, school enrolment, school readiness, legal framework for further schooling and education)
• Kindergarten as an educational institution, socialisation space and place of dynamic development at various levels as well as successful cooperation models with primary school
• Common school entry phase and first educational stages at school (pre-school, primary I and II)
• Transition from primary to lower secondary level and successful cooperation models between primary and secondary schools
• extended educational pathway decisions: Transition from lower secondary level to secondary schools and places of education (AHS upper secondary level, BMHS, PTS, apprenticeships and vocational schools)
• Including transfer and transitional education
• Transfer and transitional education in the context of multilingualism (language proficiency assessments, German language support and educational pathways in extraordinary and ordinary status)