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The function and relevance of an academic qualification in social work for professional practice can be critically classified based on existing studies. In practice specific forms of knowledge seem to be of less importance which raises questions...

We focus on the role of journals in producing social work knowledge. We surveyed social work journals internationally, concluding that social work knowledge mostly is conceived of as universal, the inclusion of knowledges being based on an...

On the basis of the actors, the article traces the interweaving of the developments of probation service and supervision in the 1960s, including archival materials and literature.

The development and design of women’s shelters and mother-child care in the 1960s to 1980s served to support and protect the family in very different ways. The authors describe both fields of action, as the development in both fields was closely...

Starting around 1970, first scolars gave attention to the socialpedagogical challenges of migration in the FRG. Following the reception, the so called “Ausländerpädagogik”-approach has to be judged in a mostly negative way. To differentiate...

The text addresses the feminist origins of the autonomous women’s shelter movement, which developed in the late 1970s. Specifically, it traces the intense controversy over the financing of women’s shelter work through § 72 German Federal Social...

In the 1960s, social work methods became more and more the core subject of training at colleges of higher education. The discussion, the development of concepts and the didactics for this subject were mainly the responsibility of lecturers at the...

The article describes the oppositional work of the AKS Hamburg from the 1970s until today. Then as now, it develops perspectives of critical social work and pushes them forward in awareness of the entanglement in power structures of power politics....

In the early 1960s, no emotional support or formal assistance in the form of trial accompaniment was provided for Holocaust survivors who testified as witnesses in Nazi trials before German courts. During the Auschwitz trial in 1964, a group of...

The southwest of the Federal Republic of Germany was a melting pot of a social movement that claimed self-organised youth centres in the 1970s. Not only numerous political struggles took place here but also networks and cooperations of a broader...

When social workers (re)began to explore the history of their profession since the 1970s, they focused on the role of social work in the Nazi era and the losses in the field of women’s emancipation. This work has been done in light of their...