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Researchers look into the future of the most important educational institution for children and search for a sustainable model for family support and education
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Summary
This winter (2004-2005), we are starting an intellectual experiment at Bremen University in order to develop a new concept for family support and parent education. We have invited a number of international as well as German experts in the field of innovative family education to give keynotes in a series of public lectures at the university. They will try and look into the future of parent education and family support from their specific research focus and experience.
Context
Germany is in a crisis: economical crisis, employment crisis, educational crisis, family crisis. Everyone is talking about reforms, many programmes are initiated, there have been changes, but nothing has worked and been established on a larger scale so far.
We see an urgent need to combine existing concepts and expertise of practitioners and researchers to create a model which could establish and sustain family support and -education in Germany. This is supported by government initiatives. The national family minister has called for sustainable policies in the interest of an active population development. He believes in mixing policies of financial support with policies to improve childcare facilities and increase their availability to all families and facilitate the combination of work and childcare for parents.
Overview of lectures
26/10/04 Dr. Alexander Fink, Scenario Management, Paderborn:
Family 2020 – Future Scenarios. Development perspectives for society, education and family.
02/11/04 Prof. Dr. mult. Wassilios Fthenakis, Free University Bozena, Italy:
Family development at the beginning of the 21st century. Results of a longitudinal study and consequences for modern family policy.
09/11/04 PD Dr. Marianne Fries, Bremen University:
Developing Comepetencies for Young Mothers – Bremen Development Chain.
16/11/04 Dr. Sven Nickel, Bremen University:
Family Literacy – Supporting writing cultures in families. Why family literacy is better than family learning.
23/11/04 Zerrin Dalhoff, Aysun Kul, Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakasoglu-Aydin, Bremen:
Innovations in supporting integration. The Bremen parent education programme for ethnic minority parents.
30/11/04 Prof. Dr. Fritz B Simon, University of Witten-Herdecke:
Families, enterprise and family enterprise in a functionally differentiated society. A systemic view on the enterprise family and on families in enterprises.
07/12/04 Prof. Dr. Ursula Pixa-Kettner, Bremen University:
Parental competencies with mentally disabled parents. Paradox or a hint to core elements of child support?
14/12/04 Michaela Hellmann, Network for local and regional family politics, IES, Hannover University:
Educational partnerships. New qualitiesin the cooperation between childcare institutions and parents.
11/01/05 Brenda Taggart, MA, ILTM, EPPE Coordinator and Proncipal Investigator, School of Early Childhood and Promary Education, University of London:
Effective Preschool and primary education project. About the efficiency of early education – a research project in Great Britain, 1997 – 2003.
18/01/05 Idriss Nor, DOEN, Amsterdam:
Family images in the Netherlands and in Germany. A comparison of compatibilities of work and family.
25/01/05 Adelheid Smolka, State Institute for Family Research at Bamberg University:
...and what would the parents like? The need for counselling and information strategies in the very day runnings in educational institutions. Results of the first German poll on parental behaviour regarding educational information.
01/02/05 Prof. Dr. Helga Krüger, Bremen University:
The future of the family: a plea for a change of perspective in social policy.
08/02/05 Prof. Dr. Ursula Carle, Bremen University:
Cooperation between Kindergarten and primary school, educational institutions and families.
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