Trabajo social escolar desde la perspectiva de alumnas y alumnos en Alemania. Un ejemplo de Baden-Württemberg

Abstract

Over the past 15 years school social work in Germany has become one of the most important tools of youth support and has developed an acknowledged professional profile. The view of young people and their subjective patterns of acquisition as they are constructed by the institutional arrangements of schools have been reconstructed in this article by using a qualitative research approach. The value of school social work becomes obvious first of all through the professionals as relevant persons in this field of support, secondly by the social experiences in the daily pedagogical process, as well as by the reliability of these relationships and also by the fact that their daily concerns are taken seriously. The analytical crossover between the dimension of use and the dimension of usefulness (use value) hints furthermore towards the relevance of a pedagogical arrangement of relations between the generations as a structural element of school social work.