Interview Study on German Street Schools (2021-2023)

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Matthias Fischer, Heidelberg University of Education

Version:  View help for Version V1

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Appendix A - Thicker Description of Street Schools.pdf application/pdf 177.4 KB 07/28/2025 08:53:AM
Appendix B - Sampling.pdf application/pdf 133.6 KB 07/28/2025 08:51:AM
Appendix C - Interview Guideline.pdf application/pdf 307.4 KB 07/28/2025 08:52:AM
Appendix D - Coding and Claim Building.pdf application/pdf 323.1 KB 07/28/2025 08:57:AM

Project Citation: 

Fischer, Matthias. Interview Study on German Street Schools (2021-2023). Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-07-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/E236945V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Street youth experience similar exclusionary tendencies in German regular schools as in the society at-large. These negative schooling experiences push many street youth out of school, leading to graduation gaps, and causing street careers to emerge. Street schools have responded to these inequalities, offering street youth more humanizing alternatives. Drawing upon a rightful presence framework, dialogic interviews with 14 educators and 10 school leaders, mission statements, and websites of street schools, we sought to understand how street schools may foster equitable educational opportunities for their students. Analysis focused on how street schools’ educators and leaders engage in on-going political struggle to support their students’ educational rights. Findings reveal that street schools not only criticize existing structures of the educational system, but also consciously reject them – despite consequences. The findings accentuate where and how the systems of schooling need to change to facilitate educational equity for street youth.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources Hanns-Seidel-Foundation (PhD Scholarship)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Interview Study; Document Analysis; Qualitative Content Analysis; Coding Manual; Interview Guideline; Sampling
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Germany
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2021 – 2023
Universe:  View help for Universe Collection of documents from German street schools (interviews, mission statements, and websites)


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