Behindertenpädagogik

Auxiliary school teachers actively participated in the forced sterilisation of their pupils during the Nazi era. They helped to school those »unfit for education«. Children of Sinti and Roma were included in the sterilisation procedures. They were...

Political education for children and young people with and without disabilities is more central than ever to maintaining democracy. Especially in times of the spread of anti-democratic ideas and the apparent social acceptance of such statements, the...

The article at hand is the first to present some of the findings of the study »Further education needs of staff in the context of caring for people with »intellectual disabilities«. The study was conducted from early 2023 to mid-2024 at the...

This work on »Swiss Special Education« in the 20th century is designed as a sociological case study of knowledge. It investigates the social and epistemological connections that produce what is referred to in both self-reference and external...

Coercion as a purposeful means of social and special educational practice remains professionally controversial and in need of discussion. If, for example, coercive applications react as repressive forms of discipline to address violations by young...

Combining Butler’s theory of subjectivation with the emancipatory aims of Disability Studies, the paper examines how subjects with disabilities can be conceptualized within Butler’s theoretical framework. In the process, performative...

This article describes the inclusive dance workshop »Erinnerung bewegt« held at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial in 2022 from the perspective of two participants. A total of twelve participants with and without disabilities took part...

The article shows continuities in the analysis of the time of National Socialism in Special Education. This is demonstrated exemplary at an article about the memorial for children’s euthanasia, which has been erected on the campus of the...

The 100th birthday of the Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, who died far too young on 11 March 2024, was hardly noticed in Germany – despite his outstanding importance for overcoming excluding structures. Against this background, the successes...

With regard to the need for support for people considered to be »complexly disabled«, the author assumes that forms of expression of the group of people named in this way – if they are labelled as »problem behaviour« or similarly deficient –...

This article looks back on the development of the »rehistoricising diagnostics« method. Furthermore, it is shown that this diagnostic procedure was significantly influenced by Italian »democratic psychiatry«, which was closely linked to the...