Publications
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Borders and Margins
(2018)
The theory and concept of multi-level governance (MLG) is a fairly recent one, emerging from the deepening integration of the European Union in the early 1990s and the development of free trade agreements around the world. ...
Revisiting Regionalism and the Contemporary World Order
(2019)
The book critically analyzes the ongoing changes in the regional, intra-regional, and global dynamics of cooperation, from a multi-disciplinary and pluralist perspective. It is based on the insight that in a post-hegemonic ...
Civil Society and Gender Relations in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes
(2018)
Is civil society’s influence favorable to the evolvement of democratic structures and democratic gender relations? While traditional approaches would answer in the affirmative, the authors highlight the ambivalences. ...
Political Leadership Between Democracy and Authoritarianism
(2021)
This book sheds light on the theory of political leadership, which is still an under-researched field of political science. It is related to the philosophical argument about determinism versus activism and helps to understand ...
The Holocaust in Three Generations
(2010)
Victims and Perpetrators What form does the dialogue about the family past during the Nazi period take in families of those persecuted by the Nazi regime and in families of Nazi perpetrators and bystanders? What impact ...
Political Science and Digitalization – Global Perspectives
(2019)
Digitalization is not only a new research subject for political science, but a transformative force for the discipline in terms of teaching and learning as well as research methods and publishing. This volume provides the ...
Gender in Focus
(2018)
This book deals with the interplay between identities, codes, stereotypes and politics governing the various constructions and deconstructions of gender in several Western and non-Western societies (Germany, Italy, Serbia, ...
Chinese Migrant Parents and Complementary Schooling in Germany
(2022)
Wie kooperieren Eltern miteinander, welchen Wert messen sie ihrer Interaktion bei und wie hängt der Grad der Kooperation mit dem sozialen Status und zusammen? Die Studie nimmt die sozialen Beziehungen zwischen verschiedenen ...
Jugendliche in der Provinz
(2011)
AMIQUS – Unter Freunden
(2013)
Covid, Crisis, Care, and Change?
(2022)
Die Covid-19-Krise hat bereits bestehende soziale Ungleichheiten in verschiedenen Bereichen verschärft. Die Autor*innen untersuchen, wie grundlegend und nachhaltig die sozialen Veränderungen im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie auf ...
Educating Students with Refugee and Asylum Seeker Experiences
(2020)
This book discusses the educational systems into which students with refugee backgrounds are placed when relocated into many of their new homelands. It discusses the current climate of neo liberalism which pervades schooling ...
New Authoritarianism
(2019)
The authos deal with comparative aspects of contemporary authoritarianism. Authoritarian tendencies have appeared in several “old democracies” but their main successes take place in several states which departed from ...
Art as a Political Witness
(2017)
The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and ...
After 9/11
(2011)
After 9/11 presents 17 interviews with America´s leading political thinkers. Renowned experts such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Francis Fukuyama, and Noam Chomsky discuss the nation’s foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Yet, ...
Beyond the Panama Papers. The Performance of EU Good Governance Promotion
(2017)
This last title in the series covers the most important findings of the five yearsEU sponsored ANTICORRP project dealing with corruption and organized crime.How prone to corruption are EU funds? Has EU managed to improve ...
Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and South Africa
(2016)
Narratives of Triumph and Loss explores the successes, challenges and controversies of women‘s post-conflict political leadership. Through interviews with women who have held significant leadership positions, the book ...
Russia, the European Union and NATO
(2018)
Russia, the European Union, and NATO still share some important common interests that need to be given greater attention. A return to strategic partnership is not conceivable without resolving the Ukraine confl ict, but ...
Gender and Diversity Studies
(2019)
What concepts of ‘gender’ and ‘diversity’ emerge in the different regions and pertinent research and practical fields? On the back drop of current European developments – from the deregulation of economy, a shrinking welfare ...
Methoden und Techniken der Bildungsberatung
(2017-03-13)
Die Beratungspraxis ist ohne Methoden und Techniken nichts. Diese sind keine Selbstläufer, sondern funktionieren als Katalysatoren, um Prozesse anzustoßen und komplexe Beratungsanliegen bearbeiten zu können. Das Buch dient ...
Selbst organisiertes Lernen am Gymnasium
(2022)
Independent knowledge acquisition and learning organisation are key qualifications of the information society. The Mixed Methods study examines inter-individual differences among pupils in dealing with self-organised ...
Aufbrüche, Umbrüche, Abbrüche
(2022)
The beginnings of the institutionalisation of qualitative educational and biographical research go back to 1978 and to representatives such as Dieter Baacke and Theodor Schulze, with whom qualitative research approaches ...
Geschlecht, Bildung, Profession
(2022)
Gender inequalities in society are also reflected in the professional field of education. The anthology deals with existing and new problems in pedagogical professions from the perspectives of professional history, educational ...
50 Jahre Sektion Erwachsenenbildung in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft
(2022)
The section and educational sub-discipline of adult education looks back on 50 years of history. The authors supplement the already drawn interim balance on the 40th anniversary of the founding in 2011/2012 with new studies ...
India in the Indo-Pacific
(2022)
In view of the fast-changing world order, emerging countries are increasingly influencing the dynamics of regional securities. This timely and in-depth book examines India’s reorienting strategic posture and describes how ...
Deutsche Archive im digitalen Zeitalter
(2022)
Zahlreiche Archive bekennen sich mittlerweile zum Grundgedanken der Offenheit, zu partizipativen und nutzerorientierten Zielen, zur Nutzung digitaler Werkzeuge. Mit Gründung der Konferenzreihe „Offene Archive” hat sich ...
Disability, Elternschaft und Soziale Arbeit
(2021)
This book deals with parenthood of mothers and fathers with so-called learning difficulties, who are often confronted with prejudices about their abilities in the role of parents, in Austria. The author is oriented towards ...
Gentrifizierungsforschung in Deutschland
(2018)
On the basis of a systematic research synthesis of empirical studies on gentrification in German cities, Jan Üblacker works on the development of the research branch. He also includes a large number of previously unconsidered ...
Verstehendes Forschen in der Pandemie und anderen Ausnahmesituationen
(2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic confronts researchers and practitioners of social work with seriously changed conditions. In order to understand such exceptional circumstances, it is necessary to reflect on how different – especially ...
Wirtlich handeln in Sozialer Arbeit
(2018)
In the science of social work, there are different approaches to explaining what socio-professional action is concerned with, how it is structured and what it has to focus on. Ecosocial theory has been part of this for ...
Jungen in Bildungskontexten
(2022)
Reflections on boys and education have become rare in the academic field after intense debates in the 2000s and early 2010s. Even though there is a persistently active field of pedagogical practice that addresses boys and ...
Europäische Gesellschaften zwischen Kohäsion und Spaltung
(2022)
Promoting and preserving social cohesion has become a central challenge for European societies. Based on contributions from the first trinational conference of DGSA, OGSA and SGSA, this book addresses both the meaning of ...
The Need to Belong in Secondary School
(2022)
Our social interactions are driven by complex biopsychic processes that are complicated by the fact that humans are individuals and at the same time members of one or more social systems, such as schools. This book contributes ...
Geschlechtlichkeit und pädagogisches Handlungswissen
(2022)
How is gender perceived, communicated and shaped by teachers? The study is dedicated to dealing with gender in the field of school from a power-critical perspective. For this purpose, the concept of gender fiction is ...
Geschlechterforschung in und zwischen den Disziplinen
(2020)
Welche Diskurse der Geschlechterforschung lassen sich identifizieren, wie verorten sie sich und an welche Denktraditionen knüpfen sie an? Angesichts der Vielfalt und Komplexität des wissenschaftlichen Gegenstandes Geschlecht ...
Inklusion – eine unerfüllbare Vision?
(2018)
Criticism of the implementation of school inclusion is growing and the question arises: where do we stand after 40 years of integration and inclusion experience? The vision of school inclusion is based on three pillars: ...
Sozialpolitik im EU-Mehrebenensystem
(2022)
The EU's multi-level system continuously renegotiates the influence of the European institutions on national sovereignty. Social policy has traditionally been the domain of the member states. But is it still possible to ...
Enterprise Social Policy as a Means of Development of Social Work
(2020)
Since its professional beginnings, social work has been a major actor and instrument of social policy. This study is a reconstruction of the development of social work in enterprises implemented as part of enterprise social ...
Kindsmord in den Medien
(2020)
Körper in biografieanalytischer Perspektive
(2021)
How does body knowledge develop? How does it influence one's own actions and experiences? This book offers a first attempt to classify the relations of body and biographical process experience. For this purpose, narrative ...
Políticas sociales y reforma institucional en la Cuba pos-COVID
(2021)
The economic crisis in the wake of the COVID pandemic is putting Cuba's socialism to a severe test. The government in Havana has put a reform of the economy, institutional structure and social policies on the agenda. This ...
Binationale Herkunft und Zugehörigkeit
(2022)
The author examines how young adults of binational origin in Morocco and Switzerland repeatedly establish a subjective balance between national discourses of belonging, social processes of inclusion and exclusion, and their ...
Binationale Herkunft und Zugehörigkeit
(2022)
The author examines how young adults of binational origin in Morocco and Switzerland repeatedly establish a subjective balance between national discourses of belonging, social processes of inclusion and exclusion, and their ...
Menschenrechtsbildung an Gymnasien
(2018)
The author presents a comprehensive picture of teachers' subjective understandings, attitudes and beliefs about human rights education. From this, indications are derived as to how human rights education can be further ...
Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung – Impulse zu Digitalisierung, Inklusion und Klimaschutz
(2022)
How can the relationship between Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and other defining social issues such as social inequality, inclusion and digitalisation be determined? The authors present well-founded overviews ...
Teilzeitarbeit im Lebensverlauf von Männern
(2022)
The book examines how occupations as contextual factors shape men's part-time transitions. It identifies occupational gender segregation and occupational working time arrangements as central influencing factors. Although ...
Von der Schule in die Berufsausbildung
(2017)
The transition from school to the world of work is a challenging process for students, in which they also receive special support from teachers. On the basis of expert interviews, the qualitative study examines the theories ...
Islamismus in der Jugendphase
(2023)
How do young people find their way into Islamist contexts and towards Islamist positions? The authors conducted biographical-narrative interviews with young people, who held different positions in this field of ideological ...
Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education
(2023)
Refugees face transitions in their lives: at an individual, a social and a cultural level. This book covers various aspects of these transitions and their intersections with educational experiences. Studies from different ...
Digitalisierung und Weiterbildung
(2022)
How does digitalisation affect adult and further education? The book shows the range of research perspectives and fields of application. Starting from basic theoretical research approaches, specific subject areas as well ...
Algorithmen und Autonomie
(2022)
We live in a world of algorithmic sorting and decision-making. Mathematical models curate our social relationships, influence our elections and even decide whether we should go to prison or not. But how much do we really ...
Erwachsenenbildung in internationaler Perspektive
(2022)
This volume addresses internationalization and internationality of adult education in two ways. On the one hand, it takes an internal perspective on the research landscape by contextualized specific phenomena of ...
Klassische Theorien Sozialer Arbeit und soziale Bewegungen
(2023)
Social work has repeatedly placed itself in relation to social movements – but has not defined this relationship further. This book empirically explores the relationship of social work to social movements and looks at the ...
Kompetenzen für eine Nachhaltige Entwicklung aus der Perspektive beruflicher Praxis
(2023)
University graduates face a multitude of challenges after graduation – including sustainability-related requirements in professional practice. But what should sustainability competence enable them to do in professional ...
Wandlungsdynamiken transnationaler Familien unter Krisenbedingungen
(2023)
When family members migrate internationally, it usually means a deep change in the relationships they maintain with each other. The author examines this process in families organized across borders between Ecuador and ...
Post-Heteronormativität und Schule
(2023)
Gender and sexual diversity is becoming a topic in everyday school life, but still occupies a precarious position in it - this not only affects LGBTIQ* children and young people, but also educational professionals, as this ...
Grenzen auflösen – Grenzen ziehen
(2023)
The boundaries between science, politics and society are fluid and are constantly being reestablished. This volume is dedicated to this topic, bringing together contributions from the annual conference of the Section for ...
Hinter_Fragen der Erziehungswissenschaft
(2023)
The book follows the II. Student Congress on Educational Science (SKEW), which took place at Bielefeld University in September 2021.From subjectivity and gender, emotionality and epistemology to science communication, ...
Gewalt in Teenagerbeziehungen
(2019)
This empirical study shows how teenagers shape the relationship space in their first romantic relationships and how violence can occur within this social interaction. The emergence and dynamics of such relationships are ...
Leute machen Kleider: Ein Arbeitskampf indonesischer Textilarbeiterinnen zwischen Selbstorganisation und gewerkschaftlicher Organisierung
(2023)
This empirical study analyses a labour conflict of Indonesian textile workers in the north of Jakarta that lasted several years. From the blockade of the factory to the appropriation of the factory to self-managed production, ...
Zur Doppelbödigkeit des Unterrichts als Bühne
(2023)
Which practices and dynamics can be identified in the interaction between teachers and students? How is the interactional order of teaching established and maintained? What insights can the documentary method and depth ...
Care in konsensuell-nichtmonogamen Beziehungsnetzwerken
(2019)
Polyamory and other non-monogamous relationships are becoming increasingly visible. They are often seen as a more self-determined and gender-equitable alternative to conventional marriage and family. The Marxist, feminist ...
Bildung und Partizipation
(2023)
Democracy has to be learned and lived - school is the ideal place for this. This book shows where pupils in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can have a say in their schools and how they learn tolerance, empathy and ...
The vignette as an exercise in perception / Η βινιέτα ως άσκηση αντίληψης
(2023)
Pedagogical work requires the willingness to engage with new situations and with people in their diversity. This book does not offer any simple recipes, but a gentle approach to important steps towards professionalisation ...
Die Vignette als Übung der Wahrnehmung / Nuove prospettive di professionalizzazione dell’agire pedagogico
(2023)
Pedagogical work requires the willingness to engage with new situations and with people in their diversity. This book does not offer any simple recipes, but a gentle approach to important steps towards professionalisation ...
Die Vignette als Übung der Wahrnehmung / The vignette as an exercise in perception
(2023)
Pedagogical work requires the willingness to engage with new situations and with people in their diversity. This book does not offer any simple recipes, but a gentle approach to important steps towards professionalisation ...
Unterrichten und Aneignen
(2019)
What is the relationship between the teaching of a teacher and the acquisition of the students, i.e. their handling of the "learning offer"? This is reconstructed in the interest of arriving at an empirically founded, ...
Ist das Hautfarbe?
(2019)
"Is that skin color?" Even young children use differences as the basis for prejudiced thoughts, which are expressed in discriminatory actions. For the study, the author visited day care centers where educational measures ...
Grenzen und Strafe in der Heimerziehung
(2019)
The book deals with current debates in Social Pedagogy on issues of setting limits, doing border and punishment in residential care. Their main arguments and (de-)legitimating figures as well as their narrowness of perspective ...
Qualitative Analysis and Documentary Method
(2010)
You need to work with qualitative methods, especially the Documentary Method? This is your book: The first systematic introduction related to the application of the Documentary Method on group discussions, interviews, films ...
The Regional Security Puzzle around Afghanistan
(2016)
Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military ...
Experiences of Intervention Against Violence
(2016)
The stories in this anthology emerged from interviews with women and young people about their experience of intervention when they were escaping a situation of abuse, neglect and/or sexual exploitation. They come from the ...
Changing Gender Norms in Islam Between Reason and Revelation
(2018)
Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact ...
Health Among the Elderly in Germany
(2014)
Whether increasing life expectancy leads to better health remains still controversial. Three topics are explored: (1) vanguard groups which inform about possible levels of health if the general social and environmental ...
Doing Democracy Differently
(2017)
Transnational civil society networks have become increasingly important democratizing actors in global politics. Still, the exploration of democracy in such networks remains conceptually and methodologically challenging. ...
The Base of the Iceberg
(2014)
Alan Rogers looks at learning (formal, nonformal and informal) and examines the hidden world of informal (unconscious, unplanned) learning. He points out the importance of informal learning for creating tacit attitudes and ...
The Hybridization of Vocational Training and Higher Education in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
(2013)
Austria, Germany, and Switzerland are increasingly relying on hybridization at the nexus of vocational training and higher education to increase permeability and reform their highly praised systems of collective skill ...
Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road?
(2010)
The book uses a comparative study of Germany and Britain to reveal how national institutions shape the labour market careers of higher education graduates. It identifies four institutional spheres that are important: the ...
Early Science Education
(2017)
Scientific contributions authored by distinguished experts from the field of early education are published periodically within the framework of the series Scientific Studies on the Work of the “Haus der kleinen Forscher” ...
Economic Competence and Financial Literacy of Young Adults
(2016)
The authors take a detailed look at the economic competence and financial literacy of young adults, especially of those who start an apprenticeship or who take up their studies at a university. Economic competence and ...
Mobile Entrepreneurs
(2018)
Migration, mobility, and globalization are transforming ways of working and living. Business activities, relationships and a sense of belonging are often not tied to any one place. This book explores biographies of highly ...
Building on Progress
(2011)
This publication provides a comprehensive compendium of the current state of Germany’s research infrastructure in the social, economic, and behavioural sciences. In addition, the book presents detailed discussions of the ...
Gender Equality in Context
(2016)
Gender Equality has not yet been achieved in many western countries. Switzerland in particular has failed as a forerunner in integrating women in politics and economy. Taking Switzerland as a case study, the authors ...
The Good Cause
(2010)
Money makes the world go round - corruption The book presents the state of the art in studying the causes of corruption from a comparative perspective. Leading scholars in the field of corruption analysis shed light on ...
Needs Analysis and Programme Planning in Adult Education
(2012)
How to identify, analyse, and assess the various types of adult learning needs? How to develop programmes tailored to these needs? This study guide is written for postgraduate students preparing to become professional adult ...
The Service User as a Partner in Social Work Projects and Education
(2016)
To become a competent social worker it is essential to know the perspective of the service users. Therefore, service users are more and more included in field research projects and the instruction of social workers to-be. ...
Competence and Competence Development
(2012)
What are today’s main concepts and theories – and the main stakes – associated with the issue of competences in organisations? Several topics are discussed, including competence issues regarding the evolution of work, ...
Learning and Teaching in Adult Education
(2011)
Learning is a key issue in education. Being familiar with contemporary learning theory, therefore, is an essential prerequisite for education scholars and practitioners alike.
Research and Development in Adult Education
(2010)
The importance of adult education is growing steadily— be it in relation with migration, matters of inclus - ion, the work place etc. Thus, this international perspective on the most important research issues in adult ...
Theories in Adult Learning and Education
(2011)
Adult Learning and Education The graduate student guide in adult education explores theories of adult learning and adult education participation. It provides a frame of reference for understanding the development of a ...
Building on Progress
(2011)
This publication provides a comprehensive compendium of the current state of Germany’s research infrastructure in the social, economic, and behavioural sciences. In addition, the book presents detailed discussions of the ...
Der Aufbruch der Frauen in der SPD
(2019-03-25)
Die SPD vollzog in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren einen beachtlichen frauenpolitischen Wandel: Sie richtete ihre Frauen- und Familienpolitik neu aus, übernahm feministische Ziele in das Grundsatzprogramm und führte eine ...
Soziale Arbeit – Kernthemen und Problemfelder
(2017)
Die Reihe „Soziale Arbeit – Grundlagen“ stellt eine übersichtliche Einführung in das Fach dar. In Band 1 werden Kernthemen und Problemfelder Sozialer Arbeit vorgestellt. Welche Themen sind für die Fachdiskurse professioneller ...