Nando Belardi

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Nando Belardi (born August 16, 1946 in Wetzlar ) is a university professor emeritus for social education at the Philosophical Faculty of the Technical University of Chemnitz . There he held the chair for social pedagogy between 1993 and 2006. The main focus in teaching and research was the history, development and professional fields of social work as well as its methods: interviewing, counseling, group and team work as well as supervision , management counseling ( coaching ) and organization / social management. Furthermore: care for the elderly, “deviant behavior” ( deviance ) and social policy.

Portrait of Nando Belardi
Portrait of Nando Belardi

Career

The story of his parents as well as his own post-war experiences shaped his career. The father was an Italian foreign worker from Assisi (Italy); from 1943 then forced laborers . The mother was a conscripted German unskilled worker from Biebertal in the district of Gießen. Both met in a munitions factory in the Kassel region. In Nazi Germany at that time connections between German women and “inferior” foreigners were forbidden. On the intervention of the NS district leader, the mother was transferred back to Wetzlar and his father was mistreated by the SA. At the time, Nando Belardi was the only foreign child in elementary and secondary school. Many teachers identified themselves as ex-Nazis or mourned the times before 1945. Some discriminated against him. In his uneducated family of origin he had to fight for further school attendance after 1950. His progress in schools was also endangered by poor knowledge of German. He obtained secondary school leaving qualifications from the then Kestner School in Wetzlar (1964) as well as the former Business School in Gießen (1966). The external Abitur at the Goethe Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main was made possible by friendly teachers (1967).

Belardi originally wanted to be a journalist. As a schoolboy he wrote articles for newspapers. During the holidays he worked in industry, a printing company, and in building construction and road construction. As a schoolboy he hitchhiked several times alone through Central Europe. In Paris he was briefly imprisoned for vagrancy. He experienced the university as a “liberation” from the German school system of that time. Belardi first studied economics and social history (1966–1967). Then until 1970 sociology , political science , education and psychoanalysis ( psychosomatics ) at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . Change from Italian to German citizenship (1968). Scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung . By chance he got into youth and adult education and from 1970 to 1974 was a full-time educational assistant at the adult education center in Wetzlar. In 1973 he received his doctorate in social sciences from Giessen University. 1974–1976 he worked as a research assistant in teacher training at Giessen University. 1977-1981 he was professor of social education at the then University of Applied Sciences in Cologne (now Technical University of Cologne ). From 1981 to 1982 Belardi worked for the German Academic Exchange Service as a visiting professor for social work at the University of Hong Kong (香港 大學). 1982–1993 he worked again at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. In 1992, he completed his habilitation through supervision at the Institute for Social Education at the Technical University of Berlin in educational sciences with a focus on social education / social work. Reviewer: Carl Wolfgang Müller / Manfred Kappeler . In the summer of 1993 he was a private lecturer there. At the end of 1993 he was appointed to the chair for social pedagogy at the Technical University of Chemnitz. Here he was responsible for one of the few extra-occupational degree courses in social pedagogy and, between 1993 and 1996, he was also responsible for studying teaching for social pedagogy at vocational schools. Between 1994 and 1997 Belardi was Dean of Studies at the Philosophical Faculty for the Diplom and Magister courses. From 1980 to 2006 he was a liaison professor at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. 1983–1993 he was a member of the selection and review committee of the German Academic Exchange Service .

Further academic and scientific activities: visiting professorships at the Volgograd University of Education (1997) and 2013 at the Sichuan University , Chengdu (四川 大學, Sìchuan Dàxué), PR China. Expert for the Cologne Regional Labor Court (1987). Expert for the Central Evaluation Agency of the Universities of Lower Saxony ( Central Evaluation and Accreditation Agency , ZEvA) 1998. Founding member of the Faculty for Educational Sciences at the Free University of Bolzano in South Tyrol (1998–2001). Member of the evaluation committee (nucleo de valutazione) of the Free University of Bolzano (2000–2008). After retiring in Chemnitz, he was professor (professore a contratto) in Bolzano from 2006 to 2013 at the Bressanone site as well as course director for social pedagogy (2006–2011) and responsible for the internship office for teachers and kindergarten teachers.

In total, Belardi has led over 1,000 students to graduate in around 40 years. Many of the dissertations of his PhD students have been published in two book series edited by him. Three of his doctorates have meanwhile been appointed professors: Prof. Zhang Wei received the University Prize of Chemnitz University of Technology for her dissertation “Social Affairs in China” in 2006. Since 2011 she has been Professor of Social Work at Sichuan University, Chengdu (四川 大學, Sìchuan Dàxué), PR China. She is the only professor in China with an education in Germany. Sandra Zabel (née Rech) and Sabine Riegel (née Böttcher) were also appointed as heads of studies at the Staatliche Studienakademie Breitenbrunn / Saxony (University of Applied Sciences).

Scientific orientation

Belardi did not get a university professorship through the usual academic route. Originally, he orientated himself on Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud in the sense of the critical theory and is committed to the welfare state concept of the Basic Law . For more than half a century, Belardi had dealt with questions about how the Auschwitz concentration camp came about . The focus of this interest is the time before, during and after the Nazi dictatorship and other violent regimes. He had published little about it. He also dealt only marginally with migration, although it would have been obvious.

With CW Müller (TU Berlin), Belardi was one of the first to advocate the generic term social work as a common feature of social education and social work as well as the integration of both originally separate professions. (See books from 1980). In 2001 social work was recognized as a specialist discipline.

In social education he became a cross-border generalist. He is internationally known as a chronicler of supervision in Germany. His writings are pragmatic and practical. He is also interested in the professional weaknesses and taboos of the helping professions: misconduct by members of the profession due to poor training, personal deficiencies, collective illusion and poor public control. Abuse of the idealism of young people when choosing a career, especially in the low-paid educator and care professions, helper problems, violence from clients to helpers and vice versa, etc. Belardi cannot be assigned to any school in his subject.

Act

For brief periods in the 1960s and 1980s, Belardi was a member of the SPD and Alliance 90 / The Greens . Participation existed in committees, among other things, as an expert citizen of the youth welfare committee of the city of Bergisch Gladbach 1984–1989. Honorary juvenile judge ( lay judge ) he was from 1987 to 1993 at the district court Bergisch Gladbach. He completed training and further education in various methods of group dynamics, psychotherapy and supervision (FPI). Since 1992 he has been a trainer for supervisors, German Society for Supervision ( DGSv ), for institutes in Germany and Italy. He was co-founder (1994) and until 2010 co-editor of organizational consulting, supervision, coaching (OSC).

Due to her background and career, Belardi has a strong interest in interdisciplinary topics and foreign cultures. Overall, he spent more than four years outside of Europe on sometimes extreme expedition and research trips in most countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania. He gave many lectures in educational institutions about China, Rwanda, Congo, Cambodia, New Guinea, North Korea and published about them. He was particularly interested in life in desert areas: Sahara , Danakil , Atacama , Gobi and Taklamakan .

The thirteen years in Chemnitz (in the GDR era: Karl-Marx-Stadt) were for him a German-German experience and at the same time new ethnological territory.

Belardi is married and has three children. He has three grandchildren and lives in Bergisch Gladbach near Cologne .

Fonts (selection)

  • Supervision and coaching. For social work, for care, for school. 4th edition. Lambertus-Verlag, Freiburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-7841-3103-0 . (Fourth completely revised edition of the book Supervision, which has been expanded to include the topic of coaching. An introduction to social professions from 1996. Also as an e-book)
  • Supervision and coaching. Basics, techniques, perspectives. 5th edition. Beck-Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72795-5 . (Fifth completely revised edition of Supervision from 2002, expanded to include the topic of coaching)
  • Cambodia. Genocide without a perpetrator? In: Sheets for German and international politics. 4/2015, pp. 33-36. ISSN  0006-4416
  • Supervision for helping professions. Lambertus-Verlag, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7841-2610-4 . (Also as an e-book)
  • Consultation. A socio-educational introduction. 6th edition. Juventa-Verlag, Weinheim / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7799-2003-8 . (Editor and main author. First edition 1996)
  • with Werner Wiater, Franco Frabboni and Gerwald Wallnöfer: Pedagogical key concepts in a German-Italian comparison. Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2010, ISBN 978-3-8340-0692-9 .
  • with Gerwald Wallnöfer: La Supervisione nelle Professioni Educative. Erickson, Gardolo (TN / Italia) 2007, ISBN 978-88-7946-954-8 .
  • with Werner Wiater, Franco Frabboni and Gerwald Wallnöfer (eds.): Le parole della pedagogia. Teorie italiane e tedesche a confronto. Bollati Boringhieri, Torino (Italia) 2007, ISBN 978-88-339-5790-6 .
  • Scuola e assistenza sociale. In: Dirigenti Scuola. 7, Maggio / Giunio 2002, pp. 25-32. (Brescia / Italia).
  • Reflessioni Pedagogiche sul Lavoro con gli Anziani. In: La Famiglia. 215, Settembre / Ottobre 2002, pp. 79-85. (Brescia / Italia).
  • Social Work Supervision in Germany. In: European Journal of Social Work. Volume 5, Issue 3, November 2002. Oxford University Press, pp. 313-318. ISSN  1369-1457 .
  • Supervision in Germany. In: Supervisie in opleiding en beroep. Tijdschrift voor professioneel begeleiden. 2/1999, pp. 20-33 (Houten / Netherlands). ISSN  0920-2404 .
  • with Marlis Fisch: Aid for the elderly. An introduction to study and practice. Beltz-Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 1999, ISBN 3-407-55831-7 .
  • with Bindrich and Fankhänel: East German social work as reflected in the specialist literature. Kovac-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-86064-891-8 .
  • Supervision. An introduction to helping professions. Lambertus-Verlag, Freiburg 1996, ISBN 3-7841-0890-3 .
  • China social. Modernization and social affairs in the PRC and Hong Kong. A comparative study on social work. MBSF 2, Marburg 1993, ISBN 3-8185-0146-7 .
  • Supervision. From practical advice to organizational development. (Habilitation thesis). 2nd Edition. Junfermann-Verlag, Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-87387-089-4 .
  • Hong Kong, Macau, Canton. Travel guide. Mundo-Verlag, Rieden im Allgäu 1988.
  • Editor and lead author of the four volumes of Social Work. Diesterweg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-425-07751-1 .
  • Experience-based youth education work. Achenbach-Verlag, Giessen 1975.
  • E-books: Rwanda. Twenty years after the genocide. The destabilization of a region and what Germany has to do with it. Kindle on Amazon 2014.
  • The journey on the Congo River. 1,000 kilometers in unsafe waters. History and stories of a region. Kindle on Amazon 2016.
  • Edited by: Focus on social work. Eleven volumes. Verlag Leske + Budrich-Verlag, Opladen.
  • Chemnitz contributions to social education. Eight volumes. Kovac publishing house, Hamburg.
  • Over 170 articles in specialist dictionaries, books and specialist journals.
  • Translation of some texts on supervision in English, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Czech and Chinese.

proof

  • Literature about Nando Belardi: Dieter Kreft: The social portrait: Nando Belardi .... train well for meaningful work and to secure livelihood - with helpers and wards. In: Theory and Practice of Social Work. 1/2004, pp. 68-72. ISSN  0342-2275 .
  • Supervision. The clarifying view from the outside. In: Uni-Magazin. Prospects for work and the job market. 7/2003 (Federal Labor Office), pp. 12–17. ISSN  0948-2458 .
  • Manfred Leppers: Interview with Prof. Nando Belardi. Earned lasting services to supervision. In: DGSv aktuell. 2/2009, pp. 30-31.

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personal data
SURNAME Belardi, Nando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social pedagogue and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar