Professorship for Social Pedagogy

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

The team of the chair of Social Pedagogy conducts empirical and theory-generating research in the following areas:

  • Child and youth welfare research (with a special interest in ombuds offices and complaint services and social space approaches),
  • Refugee family studies,
  • Subjectivation and discourse analysis,
  • Theories of social pedagogy and social work,
  • Trust research.

Our teaching is also based on these focal points.

  1. Published

    The making and doing of migrant (m)others in Germany - Subjectivation in the context of early childhood education and care

    Schwenker, V. S. & Sandermann, P., 2024, Practicing the Family: The Doing and Making of Family In, With and Through Social Work and Education. Bollig, S. & Groß, L. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 175-191 17 p. (Pädagogik).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Together or apart? Spousal migration and reunification practices of recent refugees to Germany

    Kraus, E. K., Sauer, L. & Wenzel, L., 01.12.2019, In: ZEITSCHRIFTE FUR FAMILIENFORSCHUNG-JOURNAL OF FAMILY RESEARCH. 31, 3, p. 303-332 30 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Accepted/In press

    Trust Issues!? Vertrauen in modernen Gesellschaften

    Sandermann, P. & Schwenker, V. S., 2025, (Accepted/In press) Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 285 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  4. Published

    Unaccompanied Minors in Germany: A success story with setbacks?

    Zeller, M. & Sandermann, P., 2017, In: Social Work and Society. 15, 2, p. 1-20

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published
  6. Published

    Vertrauen als Thema von Wissenschaftskommunikation und Praxistransfer

    Sandermann, P. & Schwenker, V. S., 2025, Trust Issues!? Vertrauen in modernen Gesellschaften. Schwenker, V. (ed.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 265-273

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Vertrauensaufbau mit geflüchteten Eltern

    Sandermann, P., 07.2023, Handbuch Interkulturelle Kompetenz in der Kita. Lamm, B. (ed.). 1. Überarbeitete Ausgabe, revidierte Ausgabe ed. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder Verlag, p. 89-99

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

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  10. Published

    Young people called "unaccompanied minors" and European welfare states: A brief introduction to this special issue

    Sandermann, P. & Zeller, M., 2017, In: Social Work and Society. 15, 1, p. 1-4

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review