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STEPHANIE KEHRER
Internship Field: Education, Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Ethnology
Majors: Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity /German Studies, Linguistics
Host: Fichtelgebirge-Grundschule
Location: Berlin-Kreuzberg
Duration: 3 months, Spring 2000
Description: I observed how the class operated, I participated in activities and helped the teacher with simple tasks. I conducted interviews with all of the children in the class and with several teachers in the school." (The internship provided part of the empirical bais for comparative research on the integration of migrants' children into the educational system.)
Comments: My research has turned out to be very fruitfull. I
have learned a lot through conducting my interviews, especially
about how to push with certain questions and follow-up. ... I was able
to really explore an important aspect of the changing German culture:
multicultural elementary education.