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

    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

  2. Published

    Trust Issues!? - Vertrauen in modernen Gesellschaften

    Sandermann, P. (Editor) & Schwenker, V. S. (Editor), 2025, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 285 p. (Sozialtheorie)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  3. 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

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    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

  5. Published

    The educational benefits of technological competence: an investigation of students' perceptions

    Selwyn, N. & Husen, O., 06.2010, In: Evaluation & Research in Education . 23, 2, p. 137-141 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Teilhabe durch*in*trotz Sozialpädagogik

    Dörr, M., Lochner, B., Richter, M., Sabla, K.-P. & Sandermann, P., 2019, Teilhabe durch*in*trotz Sozialpädagogik. Kommission Sozialpädagogik (ed.). Weinheim: Beltz Juventa Verlag, p. 7-15 (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission Sozialpädagogik).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Teilhabe durch*in*trotz Sozialpädagogik

    Sandermann, P. (Editor), Dörr, M. (Editor), Lochner, B. (Editor), Richter, M. (Editor) & Sabla, K.-P. (Editor), 2019, 1 ed. Weinheim/Basel: Juventa Verlag. 192 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

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    Sozialkonstruktivismus I: Faktenbezüge evidenzbasierter Programme und Praktiken

    Sandermann, P., 2018, 10 Minuten Soziologie: Fakten. Behrendt, G. & Henkel, A. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 35-48

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