Heike Fleßner

Heike Fleßner (* 1944 in Esens in East Friesland ) is a German educational scientist and professor ( retired ) with a focus on social education / social work at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg . Her scientific work focuses on analyzes and conceptual developments in the area of gender and diversity conscious social education. Parallel to this, many years of socio - political commitment in the area of ​​institutional anchoring of public childcare and education.

Career

After studying to be a teacher, Fleßner initially worked as a secondary school teacher from 1966 to 1971 . She was then appointed research assistant and then director of studies at the University of Oldenburg. In 1980 she received her doctorate with a historical study on the development of public education for young children in the countryside in Germany (1870-1924). Her habilitation in 1994 (Venia legendi for educational science with a focus on social pedagogy) dealt with the subject of "Motherhood as a job: historical findings or current structural features of social work?" In 1996 Fleßner was appointed university lecturer and adjunct professor at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg. The focus of her university teaching was on the diploma course in Pedagogy / Social Pedagogy and, from 2005, on the course in Pedagogy (Bachelor and Master).

Fleßner is a co-founder of the gender courses at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Magisterium minor in women and gender studies from WS 1997/98 and BA Gender Studies from WS 2007/08) and from 2001 of the Center for Interdisciplinary Women and Gender Studies (ZFG). In 1997/98 she worked for one year as a visiting professor at Towson University (Baltimore, MD / USA) in the Women's Studies course . Fleßner's main areas of work: International Perspectives on Women; Women's Rights as Human Rights; Girlhood / Female Adolescence. 2001–2009 she was director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Women and Gender Studies (ZFG) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.

From 1985–1991 Fleßner was a member of the City Council of Oldenburg with a focus on urban development planning and youth welfare policy, especially public education for young children (crèche and kindergarten). Fleßner has been chairwoman of the Lower Saxony regional association of pro familia , the German Society for Family Planning, Sexual Education and Sexual Counseling eV, since 2013

Memberships

Heike Fleßner is a board member of the Bertha Ramsauer Foundation, Oldenburg, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Women and Gender Studies (ZIF) at the HAWK Hildesheim / Hildesheim University Foundation.

Publications (selection)

Books

• Family-friendly university. Data - Challenges - Perspectives (together with Karin Flaake, Angelika Müller, Juliane Ebene). Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag 2008.
• Motherhood as a job: historical findings or current structural feature of social work. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag 1995.
• Subject discipline or human education? On the development of public education for young children in the countryside (1870–1924). Weinheim and Basel: Beltz 1981.

Editor

• Boy work. Dialog between practice and science (together with Michael Herschelmann and Detlev Pech). Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag 2005.
• Societies in Transition - Challenges to Women's and Gender Studies (together with Lydia Potts). Opladen: Leske and Budrich 2002. With an introduction by Heike Fleßner and Lydia Potts.

Contributions (manuals and textbooks)

• Gender-conscious pedagogy in the context of diversity-conscious pedagogy. In: Leiprecht, R. / Steinbach, A. (Ed.): School in the migration society. A manual. Vol. 1: Basics - Diversity - Subject Didactics. Debus education: Schwalbach / Ts. 2015, pp. 305–323.
• Gender-conscious social work. In: Enzyklopädie Erziehungswissenschaft Online (EEO), Section Social Work / Social Work as a Profession, ed. by W. Schröer and C. Schweppe, Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa 2013, (www.erzwissonline.de: DOI 10.3262 / EEO14130279)
• Adolescent Parenthood (Lexicon Article). In: Ehlert, G./Funk, H./Stecklina, G. (Hrsg.): Dictionary: Social work and gender. Juventa: Weinheim 2011, pp. 18-20.
• Gender and interculturality - considerations for the further development of gender-conscious intercultural pedagogy. In: Leiprecht, R. / Kerber, A .: (Ed.): School in the immigration society. A manual. Wochenschau-Verlag: Schwalbach / Ts. 2005, pp. 162-179.
• Women's Studies (encyclopedia article). In: Kroll, R. (Ed.): Lexikon GenderStudies. Stuttgart / Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 408-410.
• Women's Studies (encyclopedia article). In: Kroll, R. (Ed.): Lexikon GenderStudies. Stuttgart / Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 408-410.

Articles (anthologies)

• Work and care. Everyday gender relations and their significance for social work. In: Sabla, Kim-Patrick / Plößer, Melanie (ed.): Gender theories and theories of social work. References, gaps and challenges. Opladen, Berlin and Toronto: Budrich 2013, pp. 79–98.
• Seize early opportunities! - The crib as a preventive facility. In: Ricking, H. / Schulze, GC (ed.): Need for support in social and emotional development. Prevention, interdisciplinarity and professionalization. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinckhardt 2010, pp. 198–209.
• Helene Lange - The future still owes us everything. In: Anne Kosfeld (ed.): From the learned room to the lecture hall. Oldenburg scientists through the ages. Bremen: Hauschild 2009, pp. 70–89.
• Early pregnancies. (2008) In: Scheithauer, H./Hayer, T./Niebank, K. (Ed.): Problem behavior and violence in adolescence. Forms of appearance, conditions of origin and possibilities of prevention. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2008, pp. 225-238.
• Support for Young Pregnant Women and Juvenile Mothers in Germany. Historical Changes in Concepts and Practices. In: Scheiwe, K. / Willekens, H. (Eds.): Between Autonomy and Dependency: Reproductive Rights, Pregnancy and Motherhood of Teenagers and Young Women - Legal and Social Perspectives. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 18. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004, pp. 372-385.

Articles (journals)

• Social space orientation in social work: historical roots - lines of development - current challenges. In: Evangelische Jugendhilfe 2011, H. 1, S. 4–13.
• Oldenburg gender research. In: Oldenburger Genderforschung (special issue). Insights. Research magazine of the University of Oldenburg, No. 43, 2006, pp. 3–5.
• Youth, gender and educational processes (together with Karin Flaake). In: deutsche jugend, H. 9, 2004, S. 381–388.
• Pregnant minors in counseling - What sociological and developmental psychological findings mean for counseling practice. In: Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Women, Family and Health (Ed.): Challenges in advising pregnant women. Hanover 2007, pp. 43–59.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lecture on the habilitation on October 14, 1994 [1]
2. ↑ educationalist Heike Fleßner adopted [2]
3. ↑ History of ZFG. December 5, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Virtual relationships instead of real love [3]
5. ↑ Bertha Ramsauer Foundation Foundation Board [4]
6. ↑ ZIF [5]
7. ^ Societies in Transition - Challenges to Women's and Gender Studies [6]