ZOOM Live Talk: GENERATION HARAM
GENERATION HARAM
„Melisa Erkurt's book should be required reading in teacher training programmes. It shows precisely, pragmatically and constructively the shortcomings and impasses of the education system, in which many children from ‚uneducated‘ families fall by the wayside ... It's a blast!“ Saša Stanišic
Melisa Erkurt came to Austria from Bosnia with her parents as a child. She studied at university. She works as a teacher and journalist. She has made it.
But she is an exception. Because at the end of the school year, she dismisses the class with the knowledge that most of her pupils will never speak German well enough to break through their predetermined fate. A generation without language and self-worth is growing up here, to whom no one listens because they cannot articulate themselves. For the time being, others decide on the „culture war“ in the classroom. Melisa Erkurt lends her voice to the losers of the education system. It's not them who need to change, but the school system that needs to break new ground.
Moderation
Robert Misik, Author and journalist
Melisa Erkurt
born in Sarajevo in 1991, was an editor at biber magazine and spent two years travelling around Vienna with the biber school project „Newcomer“. Erkurt taught at a Viennese secondary school and has been an editor at ORF's Report (domestic politics) since September 2019. She writes a weekly column in Falter and her column in taz is called „Nachsitzen“.
Melisa Erkurt
Generation Haram. Why schools must learn to give everyone a voice
ISBN: 9783552072107
Zsolay publishing house, Vienna, August 2020