Ländersympathien von Schülern gewerblich-technischer Schulen

Abstract

Within the last years it became widely accepted that cultural heterogeneity is an important characteristic of modern societies. Because of this intercultural learning also became more important, especially in the area of vocational education. Even though intercultural learning is of high relevance, research in this pedagogical area is still in its early stages and is mainly based on fragmented concepts which have not been backed up with empirical evidence. The following article presents an approach contributing to the development of this research area: two intervention studies, which were implemented in vocational schools in 2002 and 2008, are described. The latter is a replication study structurally similar to the study of 2002 and was carried out in order to confirm the results of the first study and to increase the validity. To a great extent these aims were successfully reached. According to both studies considerable parts of the students’ attitudes are determined by their cultural origin. Another important finding is that even advanced lessons dealing with intercultural learning did not lead to a significant change in culturally negative attitudes.