Schools have a legal mandate to offer children from different backgrounds the same right to education and participation. In order for schools to successfully and systematically implement this mandate of inclusion, they need the expertise of various cooperation partners. One of the key co-operation partners is youth welfare. With its services, it can make a significant contribution to the success of inclusion in schools.

Specialists in the teaching profession often only gain an insight into the requirements that arise for them in co-operation with youth welfare stakeholders when they are in practice, for example when it comes to coordinating their own work with stakeholders in individual case support for individual children, when day-to-day collaboration with colleagues from school social work or networking with youth welfare staff in all-day schools is organised.

For prospective teachers, knowledge of the services provided by youth welfare services is central to the development of inclusion in schools, particularly with regard to their professionalisation.

The symposium provides a framework for teachers in teacher training programmes to gain a compact overview of key areas of youth welfare work. The lecture provides impulses on how co-operation with youth welfare services in schools can contribute to supporting children's development. In the workshops, you will have the opportunity to learn about and exchange ideas with experienced speakers from youth welfare organisations in Oldenburg and the surrounding area.

As international research findings show, professionally organised co-operation between daycare centres and schools and their targeted cooperation with parents is particularly important for a successful start to school. The majority of youth welfare organisations are responsible for day care centres, while schools are often organised differently in terms of structure, staffing and content. The presentation provides an overview of research findings on the organisation of co-operation at the transition from kindergarten to school, especially from an inclusive perspective. The insight into case studies provides an exemplary insight into questions such as: What does it take for youth welfare services and schools to effectively support children in their educational biography? Where are the stumbling blocks?

An inclusive transition concept will be presented that builds significantly on the co-operation of these systems and, in the sense of school inclusion, attempts to continue the learning development of children across institutions and in mutual exchange.

Information about the speaker:

Dr Michael Lichtblau is a carpenter, psychologist, child and adolescent psychotherapist in training and works as a research assistant in the "Pedagogy for Learning Disabilities" department of the Institute of Special Education at Leibniz Universität Hannover.

His work focuses on the development of children's interests, the transition from elementary to primary school, inclusion in daycare centres and schools as well as childhood and socio-cultural disadvantage. He is co-founder and spokesperson for the Research Network Early Childhood Education and Development at Leibniz Universität Hannover(www.ffbe.uni-hannover.de).

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