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Students get knowlegde about child and youth work as a place of education with own working principles und struktural themes.

Child and youth work is a plural action field of Kinder- und Jugendhilfe with a specific firmly fixed educational mandate. In the seminar we have a look at the educational mandate established by law, approach different conceptions of education, discuss actually basic approaches of  educational in child and youth Work and also current economic-political instrumentalization of child and youth Work.

Lectures by the docent

Lectures by the students

Work in small groups

Plenary and group discussions

Text work

Topic assignment at the first or second day of the first block seminar.

1.       Text work together with other students and presentation at second day of first session.

2.       One of the following terms of credits

a) Presentation of one theme at the third and fourth day of the block seminar including

-         a documentation of working process

-         a handout

-         a plan for presentation

-         a reflection (after the presentation)

Following themes are proposed for presentation: 

       1.“Subject orientation” in child and youth work according to Albert Scherr.

1.       The art of awareness: To seize the moment of informal educational possibilities and to act according to this.

2.       Participation

3.       Importance of playing in human educational process.

4.       Experential education

5.       Media literacy according to Baacke, Aufenanger and Schorb

6.       Supervisory: Arc of suspense between pedagogy and law?

7.       Prevention - a task of  child and youth work?

8.       Sexual diversity in child and youth Work

9.       Youth culture(s)

10.    Education of child and youth work

11.    Right-Wing-Extermism: Definition – explanatory approaches – pedagogic acting

12.    Social learning – social education

13.    Peer-to-peer approaches in child and youth work

Information: A theme can be presentated alone or by a working group.  Eight to ten themes must be presentated on third and fourth day of seminar. In the other case, seminar papers will be presentated as a poster etc.

b) Seminar paper

Amount of ten to eightteen pages without front cover, index and bibliography

Following issues are available:

       1.    Child and youth work in social environments. What is the relationship appropriation of social

              environment and educational process?

2.       Experential education and the question about the relations between education and experiences.

3.       Work for and with girls: A relic of past times or remain highly topical?

4.       Media literacy or media education?

(Why) Is child and youth work suitable for including pedagogic practice

Basic literature

(Students should read this before the seminar starts):

Bundesministerium für Familie und Jugend (2016): Siebter Bericht zur Lage der Jugend in Österreich. Teil A – Wissen um junge Menschen in Österreich. Available:  https://www.bmfj.gv.at/dam/jcr:0b15f787-55d2-43c8-8cb6-d815adf44149/7.%20Jugendbericht%20Teil%20A.pdf (2017-05-01).

Bundesministerium für Familie und Jugend (2015): Außerschulische Kinder-und Jugendarbeit in Österreich. Ein Überblick. Available: 

https://www.bmfj.gv.at/dam/jcr:fbd242b6-c139-4e15-a125-208e8a43bb55/Au%C3%9Ferschulische%20Kinder-%20und%20Jugendarbeit%20in%20%C3%96sterreich.pdf (2017-05-01).

Hug, Theo & Niedermair, Klaus (Hrsg.) (2006): Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten. Handreichung. 3., ergänzte und überarbeitete Auflage. Innsbruck: STUDIA Universtitätsverlag. Available: https://biwiwiki.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/wissenschaftliches_arbeiten:biwi_handreichung-wiss-arbeiten_3aufl.pdf(2017-05-01)

Sturzenhecker, Benedikt (o.J): Jugendarbeit ist Bildung.

Available:  http://aba-fachverband.org/fileadmin/user_upload/user_upload_2006/

sturzenhecker_jugendarbeit_ist_bildung.pdf (2017-05-01).

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