Publications
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Migration und Lebenszufriedenheit
(2014)
The author examines the life satisfaction of various immigrant groups in Germany. On the one hand, she describes the life satisfaction of immigrants in comparison to the life satisfaction of West Germans. On the other hand, ...
Gewalt als Risiko in der offenen Jugendarbeit
(2014)
How do professionals in open youth work deal with violence among young people? On the basis of an ethnographic study based on Grounded Theory, the author points out different processing strategies. The results show that ...
Soziale Netzwerke in gemeinschaftlichen Wohnprojekten
(2014)
In recent years, communal housing projects - as a form of life between community and individuality - have become increasingly relevant in Germany. The social relationships among residents, however, have hardly been researched ...
Ehrliche Unehrlichkeit
(2012)
Using virtue as an example, the study provides an insight into the normative and subjective orientations of young people in their everyday school context. The concept of virtue in previous educational debates is juxtaposed ...
Raum – Weltbild – Kontrolle
(2014)
What are the connections between space, control and world view? The author answers this question using the concept of cognitive mapping, which he presents and discusses as a theoretical concept of social analysis and as ...
Paradigmenwechsel als Feld strukturellen Lernens
(2012)
Social changes create challenges. How can adult education meet these challenges? How do learning processes in companies change in the face of constant social transformation? Which learning cultures are sustainable? Birgit ...
Segmentierte Ausbildungsmärkte
(2014)
Why have the training opportunities for students of the German Hauptschule - the secondary school with the lowest level of graduation possible in Germany - changed since the 1950s? The author does not focus the explanation ...
Kompetenzentwicklung und organisationale Veränderung
(2015)
How does learning happen in the context of project organisations? And how can the organisation of a project develop against this backdrop? The example of two music events shows how competence development can take place ...
Jahrbuch der berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogischen Forschung 2017
(2017)
The Jahrbuch für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik (Yearbook on vocational and economic pedagogy) provides an overview over the current state of relevant research. This section takes into account the broad thematic and ...
Digitalisierung als Herausforderung für Personalentwicklung und Mitbestimmung
(2018)
The ability to innovate is a valuable asset for the IT industry. Special knowledge, farsightedness, problem-solving skills, productive collaboration and the willingness to think and act independently play a major role. In ...
Radical Approaches to Political Science
(2012-06-27)
This ground breaking volume offers a range of alternative approaches to political science, highlighting problems too rarely confronted by “mainstream” political scientists. Ranging from Gunfighter Sagas to the changing ...
Fathers in Work Organizations
(2017-04-24)
This book is dedicated to the role of work organizations when it comes to the realization of an active fatherhood. Firstly, it deals with barriers for active fatherhood and its correlating mechanisms of inequality: Which ...
“Frozen conflicts” in Europe
(2015-11-16)
Oft forgotten but simmering “frozen conflicts” continuously mark the political map of Europe. All located in South Eastern Europe, the Black Sea area and Transcaucasia, these conflicts run along ethnic, national, cultural ...
Beschleunigungsstrategien der Strafjustiz
(2018)
Accelerated forms of criminal proceedings have become enormously important in many jurisdictions. But how do authorities achieve this acceleration in practice? The author illustrates this using the example of the Swiss ...
(De-)Thematisierung von Geschlecht
(2014)
How is "gender" received by students of educational research, pedagogy and related fields? What are the students' views on gender issues? Based on the observation that interest in gender issues is perceived more as an ...
Lehrbetriebsverbünde
(2017)
The book shows that apprenticeship company networks in Switzerland have an increased integration potential for foreign students and weaker learners at school because they improve their chances of finding job training and ...
Gestaltungsraum Hochschullehre
(2015)
With the "opening of universities" to "non-traditional students", education policy demands for far-reaching reforms are addressed to German universities. How do universities meet these demands and what curricular-didactical ...
Weibliche Genitalbeschneidung im Kontext von Migration
(2015)
Female circumcision is a phenomenon that causes different reactions from different perspectives. How do Somali women experience the practice in the context of migration? And what view do social workers and migrated Somali ...
Behinderung und Menschenrechte: Ein Verhältnis auf dem Prüfstand
(2014)
The author addresses two groundbreaking questions: What significance does the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities have for special educational thinking and action? And how important is disability in the ...
Mädchen auf dem Weg ins Erwerbsleben: Wünsche, Werte, Berufsbilder
(2014)
What do girls want from their future profession? What image do STM professions have in the eyes of girls? What do companies and institutions need to take into account when designing career guidance programmes for girls? ...
Zurück in den Alltag – Mütter nach Behandlung ihrer Alkoholabhängigkeit
(2017)
What challenges do mothers face after treating alcohol dependence? The study conducted by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the Forel Clinic focuses on mothers who have undergone in-patient or ...
Karrierewege zur Professur an einer Fachhochschule
(2017)
The recruitment of University of Applied Sciences professors has been intensively discussed by science organisations since 2016. Has Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin succeeded in significantly increasing the ...
Gendersensible Gestaltung des neuen Studiengangs „BWL – Digitale Wirtschaft“ an der Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin
(2017)
The advancing digitalisation is leading to a fundamental change in the world of work. So far, women have not taken advantage of the associated career opportunities to the same extent as men. A gender-sensitive design of ...
Electronic Democracy
(2012-06-27)
The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective. Analysing the digital divide, the role of the internet as a ...
Kinder- und Jugendhilfereport 2018
(2019)
The Children and Youth Welfare Report 2018, comprehensively describes the current situation and the more recent development of child and youth welfare in Germany. It is based on the data of the official child and youth ...
Soziale Arbeit und soziale Frage(n)
(2018)
Die gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen führen zu einem Wiederaufflammen der „sozialen Frage“. Zugleich fordern Migration und Flucht oder die Rufe nach Inklusion gesellschaftliche Reaktionen heraus. Im vorliegenden ...
Die Netzbewegung
(2018)
Die Netzbewegung setzt sich ein für Informationsfreiheit, Datenschutz und Netzneutralität, gegen Zensur und Überwachung, kurz: für ein freies Internet. Dabei positionieren sich die Aktivist_innen als Avantgarde der digitalen ...
Erstorientierung für Geflüchtete
(2018)
Das Buch bietet eine theoretische und praktische Einführung in einen besonderen Teil der Sozialen und der pädagogischen Arbeit mit Geflüchteten. Es werden unterschiedliche Konzeptionen, Formate und Praxen der Erstorientierung ...
Rethinking Teacher Education for the 21st Century
(2019)
This book focuses on current trends, potential challenges and further developments of teacher education and professional development from a theoretical, empirical and practical point of view. It intends to provide valuable ...
Zwischen Sandkasten und Abschiebung
(2019)
Basierend auf einer mehrmonatigen Feldforschung beschreiben die AutorInnen das Leben junger Kinder in Unterkünften für geflüchtete Menschen. Insbesondere die räumlich-materielle Ausstattung der Unterkünfte wird in ihrer ...
Leadership in Early Education in Times of Change
(2019)
The collection brings together the latest work of researchers from Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe focusing on early childhood leadership matters. It covers different aspects of leadership in early education: professional ...
Gender und Diversity im Unternehmen
(2017)
Es gelingt, mit Geschäftsführungen, Führungskräften und MitarbeiterInnen der beteiligten Unternehmen Segregationsprozesse auf der strukturellen Ebene der Organisation, der interaktionalen Ebene des „doing gender“ und des ...
Jahrbuch der berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogischen Forschung 2018
(2018)
Das Jahrbuch für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik gibt einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der einschlägigen Forschung. Mit diesem Zuschnitt wird dem breiten thematischen und methodologischen Spektrum der Forschung ...
Unternehmerfamilien
(2013)
This empirical study draws a portrait of modern entrepreneurial families - a social unit that has received little attention in scientific discourse so far. The terms life course, biography and everyday life are the guiding ...
Geschlechterreflektierte Pädagogik gegen Rechts
(2015)
Anyone who deals with neo-Nazi prevention must consider the category of gender, because gender is a core aspect of neo-Nazi ideology and life. The contributions examine this point of view as well as the pedagogical and ...
Familienleitbilder in Deutschland
(2015)
Which cultural concepts of family life exist in Germany? What is considered "normal", "desirable", and "deviant" and how do these ideas influence family formation and family life? These questions are the focus of the ...
Mittendrin?
(2014)
Older people today find themselves in a more favourable life situation than previous generations: Many of them have a high standard of living, a high level of education and good health. In view of this potential, the ...
Soziale Arbeit als Profession
(2014)
How has social work developed into a scientifically sound practice and how will social work continue to develop as a profession in the future? With this publication, the author for the first time presents a comprehensive ...
Jahrbuch der berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogischen Forschung 2016
(2016)
What questions does vocational and business education research deal with? The current yearbook provides answers to these questions: it addresses questions about the organisation, conditions and structures of vocational ...
Friedenspädagogik und Gewaltfreiheit
(2015)
Peace has to be learned again and again - and peace education has to deal with the conditions for this in a new way. In this volume, current lines of argumentation of non-violence and peace education are measured in the ...