Маrina Pironkova
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/ped2024-6.02
Abstract. This article explores the problems in the development of social pedagogy in Germany over the last three decades, analysing the features and trends in three directions: social pedagogy as a science, as a professional field and as the training of professionals. The main social pedagogical theories are analysed
in the context of their common descriptive and normative aspects. The problems
of the expanding field of realization of social pedagogy as a profession and the peculiarities in the training of specialists in the united specialty Sociale Arbeit are
highlighted.
Keywords: social pedagogy; social work; social pedagogical theories; higher education
