Yasemin Karakaşoğlu

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Yasemin Karakaşoğlu (born May 22, 1965 in Wilhelmshaven ; also Yasemin Karakaşoğlu-Aydın ) is a German Turkologist and educationalist. From 2011 to 2017 she was Vice Rector for Internationality and Diversity at the University of Bremen . Her specialty is the exploration of interculturality . In June 2013 she was appointed by the SPD chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück for the 2013 federal election to his competence team and entrusted with the topics of science and education policy.

Life

Yasemin Karakaşoğlu grew up in Wilhelmshaven. She attended the Lessing School in Bremerhaven and the Achim School Center (Lower Saxony), where she graduated from high school in 1984. From 1985 to 1991 she studied Turkish Studies with the minor subjects Political Science and German Studies at the University of Hamburg and the Hacettepe University in Ankara (1989). After the Master of Arts (MA) she was from 1991 to 1995 research assistant at the Center for Turkish Studies in Essen and from 1996 research assistant for Intercultural Education at the University of Essen , where they 1999 Education for Dr. phil. received his doctorate. Since 2004 she has been Professor of Intercultural Education at the University of Bremen. From 2007 to 2011 she was Vice Dean for Research in Faculty 12 and Vice President for Interculturality and Internationality at the University of Bremen. Until 2006 she was deputy chairwoman of the Muslim Academy in Germany and is still curator of the academy. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu is married and has two children.

Act

In 1999 she received her doctorate on the basis of an empirical work on Muslim religiosity and educational ideas among prospective teachers. In doing so, she used methods of qualitative social research , in particular the intensive interview. 26 education students of Turkish origin were interviewed by her and the results on religiosity, educational ideas and their connection were typologically evaluated. The most important result was that the motives for wearing a headscarf were highly individual and could range from a commitment to one's own ethnic group to an interpretation of Islam as an "enlightening religion" to a comprehensive understanding of Islamic education. The work was awarded the Augsburg Science Prize for Intercultural Studies 2000. On the basis of these scientific results, Karakaşoğlu was an expert witness at the trial before the Federal Constitutional Court on Fereshta Ludin and the headscarf ban in the state of Baden-Württemberg . Due to the research situation and especially her own research results, she pleaded for a consideration of the individual case and against a general regulation.

From 2001 to 2004, together with Ursula Boos-Nünning, she led a quantitative study on girls with a migration background (including girls of Greek, Italian, Yugoslav, Turkish and repatriate origin) entitled "Many Worlds Live", in which 955 girls sent a questionnaire were interviewed.

Non-university activities

Yasemin Karakaşoğlu was a member of the Federal Youth Board of Trustees until 2009 , to which she was appointed on November 29, 2006 by the then Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth, Ursula von der Leyen . The board of trustees elected her deputy chairperson. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Freudenberg Foundation , the Council for Migration , the Bremen Council for Integration , the Foundation Council of the University of Hildesheim and was a member of the Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration from 2008 to 2015 .

Political controversy

A fierce controversy sparked Karakaşoğlu when she together with Mark Terkessidis an open letter wrote that a total of 60 signatures in the time appeared on 2 February, 2006. In this article she criticized Necla Kelek's book The Foreign Bride as one of the “lurid pamphlets in which one's own experiences and individual cases are pumped up into a social problem”, and also attacked Seyran Ateş and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (cf. media coverage ).

In response to this open letter, Alice Schwarzer attacked Karakaşoğlu in a reply in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and in Emma . She accused her of being "very, very far removed from academic neutrality and very, very closely linked to the Islamist scene in Germany".

Works

As an author:

  • Five voices in the silent house. History, time and identity in contemporary Turkish novels using the example of “Sessiz ev” by Orhan Pamuk . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 978-3-447-03379-4 .
  • Who defines the limits of tolerance? Headscarf, co-education and sex education classes. Guest lecture on June 9, 1999 (= contributions to educational migration and minority research. H. 7). Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Faculty of Education, Frankfurt am Main 1999.
  • Muslim religiosity and upbringing. An empirical study on orientations among Turkish teacher training and education students in Germany . IKO publishing house for intercultural communication, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-88939-534-4 .
  • “Our people are not like that”. Alevi and Sunni students in Germany. In: Barbara Pusch (ed.): The new Muslim woman. Viewpoints and Analysis . Ergon, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-85-3 .
  • with Ursula Boos-Nünning: Many worlds live. On the life situation of girls and young women with a migration background . Waxmann, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8309-1496-2 .
  • Education (in Turkey) and aspects of Turkish life in Germany. In: Udo Steinbach (Ed.): Country Report Turkey (= series of publications. Vol. 1282). Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-8389-0282-1 , pp. 286–305, 546–565.

As editor:

  • with Julian Lüddecke: Migration research and intercultural pedagogy. Current developments in theory, empiricism and practice . Waxmann, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1419-9 .
  • with Mirja Gruhn and Anna Wojciechowicz: Intercultural school development under the microscope . Waxmann, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-8309-2567-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Rockel: New face in the rectorate: Eva-Maria Feichtner becomes vice rector for internationality and diversity . In: University of Bremen (Ed.): University of Bremen . ( uni-bremen.de [accessed on October 21, 2017]).
  2. ^ Muslim Academy in Germany: Members of the Board of Trustees
  3. ↑ https://rat-fuer-migration.de/verbindungen/
  4. ↑ Alice Schwarzer: " Islamism: Open Answer " , EMMA , March 1, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Karakaşoğlu, Yasemin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karakaşoğlu-Aydın, Yasemin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Turkologist and educationalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven