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"They don't wipe the tables properly!"
HSZG contribution to the lecture series on "Current challenges of social work in the contexts of age(ing)" focuses on racism-critical perspectives in neighborhood work with older people.
The increasingly diverse life situations experienced in old age, as well as the challenges and opportunities presented by an aging society, have been gaining importance in recent years, particularly within the field of Social Work across various practice contexts.
In the lecture series “Current Challenges in Social Work in Contexts of Aging,” which has been running since the start of the 2022/23 winter semester, research assistant and lecturer with a specified function Monique Ritter, M.A., together with Marlene Jänsch from Fulda University of Applied Sciences, will speak on December 15, 2022, about neighborhood-based work with older adults. Under the title “They Don’t Wipe the Tables Properly, ” the two aim to raise awareness through their presentation about a critical perspective on racism and practical action in this field.
The intercollegiate online lecture series, to which Monique Ritter—together with the specialist group “Social Work in the Contexts of Aging” (of the German Society for Social Work), offers social work students an interdisciplinary insight into how Social Work can contribute in the contexts of aging. At the same time, it aims to stimulate critical reflection on the societal framework conditions, challenges, and ambivalences.
• an examination of the significance of perceptions of aging, the “promise of solutions” offered by age-appropriate support systems or “caring communities” (also) for the practice of social work,
• to socio-spatial challenges related to housing and daily life in old age, as well as anti-racist perspectives in neighborhood-based work with older adults,
• to the multifaceted challenges of geragogical and social-pedagogical approaches in working with people in the increasingly diverse life phase of old age, a phase in which polarization based on performance is growing not only in sociopolitical terms. The latter raises, not least, complex and in many respects unresolved questions regarding participation (and opportunities for participation) in “old age.”
Social Work students are cordially invited to attend all events in the lecture series without prior registration.
At the end of each online lecture, participating students will have the opportunity to network across universities—for example, regarding the thematic discussion in the context of thesis projects or even doctoral research.
The detailed program and event links can be found here.
The lecture series is an initiative of the “Aging and Teaching in Social Work” subgroup of the DGSA’s Social Work in Contexts of Aging Section.
- Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Prof. Dr. Florian Bödecker
- Protestant University of Applied Sciences Freiburg, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Engler
- Evangelical University of Nuremberg, Prof. Dr. Helene Ignatzi, Birgit Golda-Mayntz
- Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Marlene Jänsch
- Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig, Prof. Dr. Claudia Kaiser
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), Prof. Dr. Dörte Naumann
- Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Monique Ritter
- Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences, Jena, Prof. Dr. Yvonne Rubin
- Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia, Prof. Dr. Julia Steinfort-Diedehofen
- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Ina Schubert
- Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stadel
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