Renate Zwicker-Pelzer
Renate Zwicker-Pelzer is a German professor of education and counseling. She is a qualified social pedagogue , qualified pedagogue , supervisor (DGSF / DGSv), family therapist and teaching counselor (DGSF).
Professional background
After studying social pedagogy from 1974 to 1990, Zwicker-Pelzer worked as a social pedagogue and after completing her part-time studies in educational science as an educational advisor in the youth association, as a lecturer for didactics / methodology in social pedagogy and as a pedagogical employee in youth and adult education. In 1992 she received her doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Kassel . From 1990 to 1994 Zwicker-Pelzer worked in marriage, family and life counseling, in family therapy, in family education projects and as a lecturer at the Siegen University with a focus on "social work with individuals and families". In 1994 she was appointed professor for educational sciences and mainly taught "Basics and Concepts of Social Work" at the Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia in Aachen. There she founded and coordinated the first part-time course of the Catholic University for "Women in addition to family work" in social work. In 2004 she moved to the health care department as a professor of counseling and education, and from 2007 to 2009 she was dean of the department. Since 2008, Zwicker-Pelzer has been the head of the “Master of Counseling, Marriage-Family Counseling” program at KatHO NRW.
Participation in committees, institutes and professional associations
In 2004 Zwicker-Pelzer became a founding member and board member of the DGfB (German Society for Advice / Counseling). Since 2003 she has been working in the field of developing standards for counseling as a professional policy advisor for counseling and is currently the 2nd chairwoman of the DGSF (German Society for Systemic Therapy, Counseling and Family Therapy). She is a member of the VHBC (Association of University Lecturers for the Promotion of Counseling / Advice) and a member of the DGSv (German Society for Supervision) and a member of the Paulo Freire Cooperation eV. a. at the Cologne Institute for Consulting & Educational Professionalization. She also accompanies research projects of the German Institute for Applied Nursing Research (DIP) in Cologne with regard to advising relatives.
Publications
- On the conception and criticism of development educational work in extracurricular youth work. pfk archive. Aspects of Freire Pedagogy. Publisher Dialogical Education Oldenburg (1979)
- Entanglement and development. Development-related educational work for women IKO-Verlag, Frankfurt (1994)
- What does "favor of the hour" mean here in: Kindergarten heute 1 (1995)
- The tough struggle for professional appreciation in: Kindergarten heute 7-8 (1996)
- A chance for children: Creating worlds for children in: Textor, Martin (ed.), Current Issues in Social Education, Munich.
- On the professional profile of social work with families in: Jugendwohl, Jg., 3/1996
- Sale of early childhood education - visions for a new century in: In the service of the church, 80 years, 4/1999
- Evaluation of the compact study course for women alongside family work in: Final report Aachen (1999)
- On the current relevance of the pedagogy of the oppressed in: A pedagogia da libertaçãem Paulo Freire Org. Aa Maria Araùjo Freire, Sao Paulo (1999)
- System theory and systemic concept development and their relevance for therapeutic riding in: Kuratorium für Heilpädagogisches Riding 4/2000
- Cohesion-separation-belonging. New dimensions and considerations of family life contexts in: Rainbow No. 25,1 / 2000. Caritas Association Trier
- Cooperation with parents, institutions and other clients in: Therapeutisches Riding, 27.Jg., 2/2000
- Part-time studies for women with family work - university development responds to social change in: Das Hochschulwesen, 29th year 1/2001, pages 28–33
- Patient: The whole family. in: Neue Caritas, 102nd year 20/2001
- Help in family crises: A plea for the networking of offers of help in: KFH NW Jahrbuch 2002, Lit-Verlag, Münster
- Yesterday's news or today's challenge. Paulo Freire's pedagogy in: Si: SO, 7th year, 2/2002, pages 60–66
- A systemic look at the background of the theory of social systems by Niklas Luhmann in: Context, Bd. 33, 2/2002
- Children in the 5-day group in: Evangelical Youth Welfare, 80th year, 5/2003, pages 296–301
- HOT - The household organization training for family care. Reports from the project “Mediation of housekeeping concepts in precarious situations”, German Society for Housekeeping (ed.). Vol. 6. Aachen, Freiburg (2004)
- Networking as systemic intervention in: Context, Vol. 35, 4/2004 Liberation Pedagogy and Social Work in: KFH NW Yearbook 2004, Lit-Verlag Münster
- Liberation education and social work in: Ronald Lutz (Ed.) Liberating Social Work, Paulo-Freire-Verlag, Oldenburg (2005)
- Systemic advice. Journal of Systemic Therapy and Counseling. Journal for systemic therapy and counseling, 26th year, 10/2008
- Special issue "Beratung aktuell" (publisher of the edition) (2009)
- Counseling in social work. UTB Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn / Stuttgart (2010)
- With Andrea Rose, Elke Geyer: Systemic advice in nursing and nursing education. Budrich, Opladen (2011)
- Advice in the ASD. Joachim Merchel (ed.): Handbook ASD. 1st edition. Ernst Reinhardt, Munich (2012)
- Aging and getting older - a challenge for systemics. Context, Vol. 44 3/2013, Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen (2013)
- Advice for families in the context of old age and the need for care, in: Bauer, Petra; Weinhardt, Marc (ed.): Perspectives of socio-educational advice. Beltz-Weinheim (2014)
- Advice in general social service, in: Merchel, Joachim (ed.) ASD handbook, 2nd edition Ernst Reinhardt-Verlag Munich (2015)
- With Silke Doppelfeld: Supervision in fields of work in the health and nursing professions: new challenges in: Baur, Jörg, Nemann, Margret, Berker, Peter (ed.): Supervision observations, fields of observation in research and practice, Budrich-Verlag, Opladen . Also as an eBook: 978-3-8474-0253-4 (2015)
- With Andrea Rose: Counseling theory for practical support in: Arens, Frank: Practical support in professional and academic nursing training. WB-Verlag Stuttgart (2015)
- With Tanja Hoff (ed.): Compendium of advice and consulting science. Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden (2015)
- About the importance of the teacher as a person when learning advice, in: Rohr, Hummelsheim, Höcker (ed.): Teaching advice. Beltz-Verlag Weinheim (2016)
- Relatives as relatives in the process of care and support: no one is (hopefully) sick alone. in: Schirra-Weirich u. a. (Ed.): Age and aging as a participation challenge for the individual and society. Budrich-Verlag Opladen (2016)
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SURNAME | Zwicker-Pelzer, Renate |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social worker and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |