190046 SE Education and Training with Impaired Senses, Behav., Cogn., Language and Social-Emotional Developm. (2023W)

This seminar takes place in cooperation with the project "Literature Embassy" of the association Ohrenschmaus (https://literatur-bootschaft.net). The questions of the participants of the project will be at the forefront. After an initial introduction, it is planned that the students, in groups of three, each with a representative of the project, will work together with the experts to address the questions. The seminar is designed as an inclusive and participatory learning space with a strong experimental character. The given structure is based on the preparation and implementation of joint participatory mini-research projects, and goes through iterative all phases of a research process (specification of research questions, joint research, development and implementation of a research design, joint analysis, presentation and writing up of findings). The role of the course leadership mainly consists of moderating and supporting this process as well as the ongoing joint reflection of experiences. This requires a high degree of self-responsibility and willingness on the part of the participating students to engage in self- and group-organized learning processes, openness, and willingness to self-reflection, as well as empathy. The seminar is based on the approach of Inclusive/participatory research (Buchner, Koenig & Schuppener 2016), following the motto of the self-determined life movement "Not about us, without us", people with disability experiences play an active part in the theme setting, design, execution, evaluation, and dissemination of research projects. Accordingly, experts with disability experience will be actively involved in the entire seminar. Students should continually and critically reflect on their own and collective negotiation and confrontation processes in an initially unfamiliar and unfamiliar framework of joint collaboration throughout the project. They will be guided to learn and apply various reflection and auto-ethnographic research methods. At the end of the course, the research groups will organize, in a decentralized and self-responsible manner, a (semi-) public form of event in which the results of their research and learning processes should be presented to each other but also to a wider and interested audience.