HaKoReJu goes University

The aim of this additional qualification at LMU Munich and FSU Jena was to provide future educators with opportunities to deal responsibly with young people who are at risk of and oriented towards right-wing extremism and to gain confidence in their actions. Simply excluding “right-wingers” generally solves little, but boundaries are still necessary in the work. But how can the classroom setting, youth facilities and their services be designed in such a way that they promote the development of democratic and open-minded attitudes? What is essential to ensure a respectful, civic framework for everyone? Which pedagogical approaches, methods, boundaries and socio-political topics have proven to be particularly successful for the work? Which support structures can be mobilized for the youth workers?

As part of the Hako_reJu project, an action plan for dealing with young people with an affinity for the right was developed to address these and other issues. In addition to a detailed intervention plan, this includes this series of training courses for students of educational science, social work and teaching. Practitioners from open and outreach youth work, experts from regional counseling networks and scientists from political science, (social) education, social psychology and the Gender and Right-Wing Extremism Unit were involved in the development. Together, interdisciplinary needs were identified, practical options for action developed and tested in practice.

Training objectives

• Recognize and assess right-wing extremist threats
• Recognize resources, potentials and limits
  Systematically develop, implement and evaluate action steps
• Action skills for consistent human rights-oriented youth work

Training content

• Reflecting on your own attitude and role in the educational process
• Dimensions of prejudice, anti-democracy and right-wing extremism
• Methods of situation analysis and assessment of individuals, group processes and social spaces
• Planning targeted action steps for your own / intended field of activity
• Use of support and security structures for your own (future) work
• Implementation of necessary interventions and preventative measures in the event of misanthropic or right-wing extremist phenomena
• Pedagogical intervention techniques: Understanding-inquiring, biographical-narrative, attentive-critical attitude
• Methods of political education for proactive work in the focus modules: Democracy education, social learning and empowerment, gender-reflective approaches
  approaches, human rights-oriented youth cultural work
• Evaluation of the work steps