Volume 9, No. 1, Art. 33 – January 2008

Conference Report:

Ulrike Loch & Silke Birgitta Gahleitner (Germany)

Quo Vadis Reconstructive Social Work Research?Traditions – State of the Art – Perspectives

Berlin, Germany, March 23-24, 2007 at the Alice-Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (ASFH)

Organized by Ingrid Miethe (EFH Darmstadt), Cornelia Giebeler (FH Bielefeld), Ulrike Loch (University of Kassel), Heidrun Schulze (FH Wiesbaden), Silke Birgitta Gahleitner and Bettina Völter (ASFH Berlin)

Abstract: This conference report gives an overview of the 3rd annual conference of the "Network for Reconstructive Research and Biography" held at the Alice-Salomon-University of Applied Science, Berlin, Germany, on 23rd and 24th March, 2007. The aim of this year's conference was to report on the state of the art of research on social work, the current research situations at various universities in Germany, and the discourse on reconstructive social work within the discipline. This was to serve as a basis for the planned next step regarding the further development of the Network, i.e. intensive exchange, promotion of networking with colleagues and concrete forms of co-operation and strategies designed to further consolidate reconstructive social work in the Federal Republic of Germany. The keynote speakers gave further particulars about the state of the art of social work research, the workshops explored this situation in the areas of international social work practice and research, the teaching of research, junior researchers, research funding and new bachelor and master degree programs in the reconstructive social work. Approximately 40 participants met and provided new trend-setting ideas for qualitative research in social work and for the work and structure of the Network.

Key words: social work, qualitative research, research methods, conference, networking

This contribution is only available as a full text in the German language. German text

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