Matthias Kachel
1
;
Tobias Kindler
2
;
Eva Maria Loeffler
3
;
Katrin Degen
4
1 - BayWISS Promotionskolleg Sozialer Wandel / Graduate School "Social Change" at the Bavarian Academic Forum.
2 - Ostschweizer Fachhochschule / Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
3 - Technische Hochschule Köln / Köln University of Applied Sciences.
4 - Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg; University of Bamberg, BayWISS Promotionskolleg Sozialer Wandel / Graduate School "Social Change" at the Bavarian Academic Forum.
Résumé
Social workers are constantly in touch with politics - political decisions that lead to the implementation or the dismantling of social services, political movements and issues that influence their clients' or their own lives or social and political circumstances that lead to discrimination or exclusion. Social workers therefore have a unique perspective on all three dimensions of politics - policy, polity and politics - and need to be able to discern how to influence change or how to help others to make their own changes. Social workers have, through their education, some academic privilege and their professionalism is imbued with a certain amount of power towards clients. This presents the question of how these two dimensions are viewed and used by social workers and how they attain knowledge about the political system and the possibilities of influencing it. Furthermore, social work as a profession needs to be aware of the exclusionary tendencies of far right extremist movements and the logics that lead to the inclusion and exclusion of LGBTQIA+ people in order to prevent said exclusion.In our symposium, we are going to shed a light on four projects from Germany and Switzerland that concern themselves with the role of civics education in the education of social workers and with the question of how and at what level social workers become active themselves in the political arena as well as questions of how the far right in Germany normalizes certain aspects of queerness within their ranks in order to seem more appealing.
Mots clés (séparés par des virgules)
social work, social workers, social policy, politics, social policy engagement, policy engagement, direct democracy, democracy, social activism, advocacy, politics as a job, profession, holding elected office, political mandate, biographies, civics education, political education, social work study programme, content analysis, learning, far right movements, political extremism, right wing extremism, discourse analysis, inclusion, exclusion, LGBTQIA+, lesbian, gays, queer, non-heteronormative, processes of normalization
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Matthias Kachel
