TY - JOUR A1 - O’Connell, Courtney A1 - Lucić, Luka T1 - An Informal Education Intervention in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic BT - Homework Mentorships in a Berlin Refugee Shelter N2 - The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting damage is often portrayed in staggering numbers and statistics. This article offers, by contrast, a personal and qualitative account of employees, volunteers, and young residents at a refugee home in Berlin, Germany. Through the story of a boy who has spent the past 4 years in several of Berlin’s 84 remaining refugee accommodations, we examine the inequalities that already existed in Germany and how the pandemic has exacerbated them. To provide ample context, we critically assess the so-called Welcome Classes that children and teens have been attending since their arrival to the country in or around 2015 and argue that the segregation experienced at school mirrors the isolation from the host society that refugees and people seeking asylum are subjected to residentially. We then present an emergency response to school closures: A digital homework mentorship program designed to mitigate the heightened barriers to social interaction and access to education brought about by the pandemic. We explore the sociocultural theory underpinning the program, describe its methods, and offer a qualitative evaluation of the results. Finally, we discuss how the informal education intervention helps fill gaps in the system, offering an approach that can be used going forward to promote learning, social-emotional development, and inclusion of young people with migration and refugee backgrounds. T2 - Eine informelle Bildungsintervention als Reaktion auf die Covid-19-Pandemie KW - Jugend KW - Flüchtling KW - Migration KW - Bildung KW - Segregation KW - Deutschland KW - Pandemie KW - COVID-19 Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-020-00161-3 SN - 2522-5804 IS - Online first SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Springer Nature CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Große, Gerlind A1 - Streubel, Berit T1 - Emotion-specific vocabulary and its relation to emotion understanding in children and adolescents JF - Cognition and Emotion N2 - Among children and adolescents, emotion understanding relates to academic achievement and higher well-being. This study investigates the role of general and emotion-specific language skills in children’s and adolescents’ emotion understanding, building on previous research highlighting the significance of domain-specific language skills in conceptual development. We employ a novel inventory (CEVVT) to assess emotion-specific vocabulary. The study involved 10–11-year-old children (N = 29) and 16–17-year-old adolescents (N = 28), examining their emotion recognition and knowledge of emotion regulation strategies. Results highlight the ongoing development of emotion-specific vocabulary across these age groups. Emotion recognition correlated with general vocabulary in the younger group. In the older age group, emotion recognition was related to emotion-specific vocabulary size, but this effect only became apparent when controlling for the depth of emotion-specific vocabulary. Against expectation, there were no significant contributions of general or emotion-specific vocabulary to knowledge of emotion regulation strategies in either age group. These findings enhance our comprehension of the nuanced interplay between language and emotion across developmental stages. KW - Sprachentwicklung KW - Kind KW - Jugend KW - Wortschatz KW - Emotionales Lernen Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2346745 SN - 0269-9931 SN - 1464-0600 SP - 1 EP - 11 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiss, Karin A1 - Rieker, Peter T1 - Ethnicity and conflicts among young refugees in Germany JF - Social Work in Europe KW - Jugendlicher Flüchtling KW - Jugend KW - Kind KW - Heimerziehung KW - Interkulturelle Sozialarbeit Y1 - 1997 SN - 1353-1670 VL - 4 IS - 3 SP - 20 EP - 24 PB - Russell House Publ. CY - Dorset ER -