Among students of the ZHdK as well as within the Bachelor Art Education, people with migration experience are fairly under-represented. The aim of this project, thus, focusses structural barriers that are at work in regard to students with non-normative backgrounds and how they can be addressed. In dialogue with students, faculty and administrative staff we develop measures that allow for a more attractive and inclusive degree course in Art Education, which addresses students with migration experience as well as non-normative careers.
We were able to assess that among the students of the ZHdK as well as within the Bachelor Art Education, people with migration experience were under-represented (see research project Art.School.Differences). The aim of this project, thus, focusses structural barriers that are at work for students with non-normative backgrounds and how they can be addressed. In dialogue with students and faculty we develop measures that allow for a more attractive and inclusive degree course in Art Education, which addresses students with migration experience as well as non-normative careers.
By interviewing current students with migration experience or from non-normative backgrounds we identify ways in which they are disadvantaged accessing the study branch of Art Education as well as during studies, explicitly asking for strategies students have developed so far. These strategies and other ideas to overcome exlusionary processes brought forward are key to our findings and help to determine possible measures for the recruitment of non-normative candidates and their successful studies career. In a further step, identifying adaptations of the website and tools to convey information, as well as creating contact points etc. are further develped along with faculty and administrative staff. Furthermore, changes allowing for a more inclusive or flexible structure of the curriculum or degree requirements are developed.
The aim of the investigation is to find out about structural and representational changes, to be able to directly address and target candidates and students with migration experience and non-normative careers, and to start their implementation. The process of continuous and sustainable consideration of exclusions and how these could be addressed is subject to discussion beyond the own study branch and institution.