Summary / Resumé
Parents are the Key to all Educational Processes“ – In Conversation with Klaus Hurrelmann on Children and Parents, Education and Family
Today, children and adolescents grow up in smaller families. The relationship between the generations is easy. There are, however, many diffi cult challenges for children, adolescents and their parents as well as many controversial questions of education that touch on the fi eld of current family politics: How early and to what extent do kids require social contacts outside the family? What disadvantages do children from poor or socially problematic families have? What would a functioning interaction between those concerned in education look like? Which rôle does the media play as sort of a co-educator? What particulary signifi cance do male educators have? Klaus Hurrelmann pleads for a more imaginative approach and for a variety of models, in order to make a strong family life compatible with modern professional life. Apart from better general conditions a reinforcement of educational skills of fathers and mothers is required in the fi rst place.