Dealing with role models in intercultural youth work
Experience with youth counseling in Austria shows various dimensions of tension in the context of role models of young men and women. On the one hand due to the paradigm shift as a result of the breach of migration, which is still cemented in the collective conscience of the large majority of the Muslim world. On the other hand, the challenge of mainstream society which does question classical role models while at the same time enhancing them.
Which strategies and methods were successful in the areas mentioned above? How is the turning away from traditional role models perceived by the “Muslim community” as well as by Austrian society, respectively, which consequences can be derived from this?
