Accepting youth work
The accepting youth work is a social work skills concept. It was developed at the beginning of the 1990s by Franz Josef Krafeld at the University of Bremen .
Fight against right
The concept is based on forms of “ outreach street work ” that was practiced with hooligans and drug addicts in the 1980s . Specifically, this means: The social worker tries to approach the young people with a low- threshold offer. The approach is based on the idea that right-wing extremist youth are to be understood as “ losers in modernization ”. The right-wing extremist sentiment can be traced back to poorer socialization conditions, deficiencies in professional qualifications, unemployment and frustration. The immediate aim is to reduce right-wing extremist acts of violence and to deter young people from crimes. The medium-term goal is to leave the right-wing extremist scene.
With regard to right-wing extremist youth, this social work approach is controversial, insofar as the danger is seen of creating freedom for the right-wing extremist scene. The protection through the accepting youth work , so the accusation, could help to secure the existence of a right-wing extremist youth movement and make it socially acceptable .
Already towards the end of the 1990s, there was a rethink and accepting youth work in work with right-wing extremists was largely abolished. Street workers also deal with right-wing extremist youth. Accepting youth work should not mean accepting that the young people are extremist and can remain so. The concept tries to pick up young people where they are, but to develop a democratic awareness.
literature
- Interview of the anti- fascist info sheet with Prof. Franz Josef Krafeld in « Antifascist info sheet» No. 44/1998
- " Accepting social work with right-wing youth or: Fascism is not a youth problem"
- Michael Bommes / Albert Scherr : "Fascists out of the youth center? Problems of open youth work in dealing with right-wing youth" ; in Albert Scherr (ed.): Youth work with right-wing youth; Bielefeld 1992
- Norddeutsche Antifagruppen (ed.): "Roses strewn on the way ... Criticism of the accepting youth work with right-wing youth cliques " , in "council series of anti-fascist texts" 7/98 at Schwarzmarkt, Kleiner Schäferkamp 46, 20357 Hamburg
- Sebastian Friedrich "Accepting Nazis? A criticism of the accepting approach with right-wing extremist youth" Stattzeitung für Südbaden Edition 72, 2008-08
- Michael Lausberg : Accepting youth work November 28, 2015
- Generation Hoyerswerda The network of militant neo-Nazis in Brandenburg 304 pages edited by Heike Kleffner and Anna Spangenberg, Be.bra-Verlag February 2016 ISBN 978-3-89809-127-5 (including in the first article by Jeanette Goddar)
Web links
- The Bremen Model of Accepting Youth Work Overview, information and documentation center for anti-racism work in North Rhine-Westphalia, December 2008
- Article on the website of Gangway
- Accepting youth work , VAJA e. V. Bremen
- Accepting youth work , Heinrich Böll Foundation