Sozialpädagogik und Organisationspädagogik

Social work and organizational studies are connected by a particularly close relationship. The history of social work can be described as a series of different stages of confrontation with its own organisational constitution. This development continues over time up to the current concept of professionalism, rooted in organisational studies and localised at the intersection between social work and organisational studies. Examples of empirical research are also presented at this intersection, some of which already go beyond the usual disciplinary and occupational limits of social work or pedagogical fields of practice. The following hypothesis is put forward: Social work and organisational studies can act as reference points for one another, for example each serving as benchmarks for focusing and reflecting on the other discipline.