Regional office
Regional offices for the promotion of children and young people from immigrant families and regional offices for education, integration and democracy ( RAA ) are agencies in the education sector that specialize in inclusion and integration .
Its purpose is to support and further develop schools , education and youth welfare institutions in the federal states from early childhood to vocational training . RAA always have a state and a private pillar, i. In other words, they are either affiliated with the regional school administration and supplement their range of activities through public-private partnerships, or they are organized as non-profit, independent organizations and interlink with the administration through teacher delegations in the RAA.
Surname
Depending on the federal state and municipality, the abbreviation RAA stands for “Regional jobs for the support of children and young people from immigrant families” or for “Regional jobs for education, integration and democracy”. Institutions with other names such as the ikubiz in Mannheim or the Bildungsbüro Weinheim see themselves as RAA due to their history and purpose.
history
The first RAA were founded in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1980 under the name "Regional Arbeitsstellen für Ausländerfragen", from which the second "A" in the abbreviation RAA goes back. They were preceded by the Weinheim project, which was developed in 1979 as a prototype and model for future regional agencies with the support of Freudenberg . From 1991 a network of RAA was established in the new federal states , which reached from Rostock to Erfurt and today, after several administrative changes and subsequent foundings, closings and structural changes in RAA and its branches, includes four states.
Focus of work
The main focus of the work of the RAA is the creation of more educational equality, i. H. Equal opportunities for children and young people with and without a migration background, and the promotion of a democratic culture in schools and society. This includes, among other things, the support of language promotion with the help of language mentors (as in the Aachen project smile ) and action against resentment (such as the perspektywa project of the RAA Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania against hostility towards Poland). The RAA are financed by the public sector (federal states, municipalities, federal government, EU) as well as through foundation programs and support cross-departmental and cross-organizational cooperation at all levels of school, youth welfare, social affairs, health, culture, etc. Therefore, the RAA teams themselves always to find teachers and social pedagogues as well as other experts.
distribution
In June 2011 there are 48 RAA (under different names) in seven federal states: Baden-Württemberg , North Rhine-Westphalia , Berlin , Brandenburg , Saxony , Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Some RAA have other decentralized contact points and branches, such as mobile advice teams against right-wing extremism and victim advice centers. The communal location in the federal states is a structural feature and working principle of the RAA. At the same time, the RAA are networked nationwide, as a federal working group of independent organizations under regional management that share common goals, working methods and organizational forms.
Cooperation partner
In the federal states and municipalities, the respective education or culture ministries , integration officers and youth welfare offices are central cooperation partners of the individual RAA. The Freudenberg Foundation is the closest development partner to the nationwide RAA network . In addition, there are state and private educational institutions , migrant organizations , parents' associations and initiatives in the municipalities to which the RAA offers its support and advice.
literature
- Christiane Bainski: Promoting children and young people with a migration background
- Regional educational communities. Expert opinion on intercultural parental participation by the RAA , University of Hamburg, 2010
- Lindemann, Florian: School has to be tasty! : Encouraging experiences of young Roma in the German education system , Weinheim; Basel; Berlin: Beltz, 2005 - 175 pages, ISBN 3-407-32062-0
- Christian Petry, Hans-Henning Pistor (ed.): The long way of the educational reform , Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 2004, ISBN 3-407-25362-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ With a smile on your learning success ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Aachener Zeitung from June 2, 2011. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
- ↑ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Project against hostility towards Poland ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Internet service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg and the Pomeranian Evangelical Church. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.schulministerium.nrw.de/BP/Publikationen/Schule_NRW/Leseprobe01.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
