250404 Politics, Psychology, and Education of Diversity (S) (SoSe 2020)

This course aims to provide the students to seek for possible answers to the ancient question in the history of politics, education and educational politics which asks how people can reach out to a "good society" by considering the ways of coexistence for individuals having different social, cultural or political allegiances. The coursework will include a critical reading of intergroup differences, majority and minority relations and intergroup conflict throughout the societal issues of migration, recognition, nationalism, ethnic relations, and discrimination. The social psychological processes immanent to diversity will be elucidated through the politicization of collectivities while nation-states, as the main political units in which diverse human groups ought to coexist, will be investigated in terms of the citizenship issue; which can be utilized as inclusionary and exclusionary forms of governmentality. The coursework will be divided into three modules framed by different theoretical perspectives from clinical psychology, social psychology, and political science.