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Congresso Internacional de Pedagogia Social
Abstract
MARTHALER, Thomas. Social pedagogy as pedagogy in social work? The case of child protection.. In: CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL DE PEDAGOGIA SOCIAL, 4., 2012, São Paulo. Proceedings online... Associação Brasileira de Educadores Sociais, Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000092012000200035&lng=en&nrm=abn>. Acess on: 11 May. 2024.
The proposed presentation will treat the questions of the possible meaning of social pedagogy in the context of child protection as a context which is dominated by logics of control and constraints on the one hand and of the possible links to historical and contemporary approaches to a theory of social pedagogy on the other. With reference to empirical research in this field the specific social-pedagogical challenges, needs and possibilities are discussed. The discussion, enlightened by the dichotomy of system and life-world as adapted by German theories of Social Work especially in the 1980s, reveals typical shortcomings of social-pedagogical approaches in organizational contexts. They are characterized as the application of system solutions to life-world problems. These life-world problems constitute the social-pedagogical dilemma in modern societies, and early theoreticians tried to propose adequate life-world solutions to them. In a concluding chapter further 'life-world sensitive' propositions are made for the Brazilian situation, looking at given structures such as the Conselhos in youth welfare as well as new approaches in research and theory.
Keywords : Social Pedagogy; Child Protections.