The beginning of the subject of Social Work/Social Pedagogy in Oldenburg predates the founding of the university. Already in the context of the earlier teacher training at the (then still) University of Education Oldenburg, the social pedagogical internship formed the first study placement, and there has been a professorship for social pedagogy since 1968.

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The profession and scientific discipline of Social Pedagogy or Social Work can be described as a socially institutionalised reaction to typical psychosocial coping problems resulting from socially induced disintegration.

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