Talent reserve
Talent reserve is a term used in social science, or sociology , and describes possibly existing performance potentials that exist in an individual, a group or an entire society, but remain underdeveloped due to inhibiting factors.
Concept emergence
The term was used during the debate about the educational reform in the 1960s and mainly referred to those children and adolescents who were unable to complete higher education because of the school and education system at the time. Following the discourse, the federal German educational planning tried to "open up" precisely those predicted reserves of talent by breaking down educational barriers.
Current reception
In the course of the discussion about the results of the PISA study in Germany , the term was taken up again in 2005 by Rainer Geißler . In his widely acclaimed article The Metamorphosis of the Worker's Daughter into the Son of a Migrant. On the change in the structure of opportunities in the education system according to class, gender, ethnicity and their links. Geissler describes the shift in the subjects to be promoted from working-class children and Catholic population groups in the 1960s to migrant children , especially from the former recruiting countries and resettler families .
literature
- Jürgen, HW: Investigations into talent reserves. In: social world. 17 year, 1966.
- Geissler, Rainer: The metamorphosis of the worker's daughter into the son of a migrant. On the change in the structure of opportunities in the education system according to class, gender, ethnicity and their links. In: Berger, PA, H. Kahlert (Ed.): Institutionalized inequalities. How education blocks opportunities. Weinheim and Munich 2005, pp. 71-100.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl-Heinz Hillmann : Dictionary of Sociology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 410). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-41004-4 , p. 79.