Thomas Rauschenbach

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Thomas Rauschenbach (born December 14, 1952 in Tübingen ) is a German educational scientist and has headed the German Youth Institute in Munich since 2002 .

Live and act

From 1971 to 1978, Rauschenbach studied educational science, sociology and psychology at the University of Tübingen . In 1981 he received his doctorate in educational science as Dr. rer. soc. with Hans Thiersch .

From 1980 to 1983 he worked as a research assistant and managing director at the Institute for Educational Science I at the University of Tübingen and from 1983 to 1989 there as an academic adviser in the field of social education. Since 1989 he has held the chair for social pedagogy at Faculty 12 Educational Science and Sociology at the Technical University of Dortmund and has been on leave there since 2002.

Thomas Rauschenbach has been director and board member of the German Youth Institute since 2002.

In 2008 he was appointed to the board of trustees of the non-profit Bertelsmann Foundation , of which he was a member until 2015. He brought his educational expertise to various projects.

Work areas

  • Education in childhood and adolescence
  • Social professions (training and labor market)
  • Voluntary work, voluntary service , community service
  • Social Work Theory
  • Association research, third sector
  • Welfare and youth associations, youth work
  • Socio-educational research
  • Child and youth welfare statistics

Fonts (selection)

  • with Walter Bien: Growing up in Germany. AID: A - The new DJI Survey , Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-7799-2259-9
  • with Hans-Uwe Otto: The other side of education. On the relationship between formal and informal educational processes. 2nd Edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden 2008.
  • Education for the future: family, youth welfare and school in a new alliance , Juventa, Weinheim 2009 ISBN 978-3-7799-1731-1
  • with Heinz-Hermann Krüger: Introduction to the fields of education and social work. 4th volume in the series Introductory Course in Educational Science , Barbara Budrich Verlag, Opladen / Farmington Hills 2006, ISBN 978-3-8252-8093-2
  • with Klaus-Jürgen Tillmann, Rudolf Tippelt and Horst Weishaupt: Datenreport Erziehungswissenschaft 2008. Barbara Budrich Verlag, Opladen / Farmington Hills 2008, ISBN 978-3-86649-179-3
  • with Annette Zimmer: Civic engagement under pressure? Analyzes and findings from the areas of social affairs, culture and sport. Barbara Budrich Verlag, Opladen / Farmington Hills 2011, ISBN 978-3-86649-435-0

Editorships, editorial activities

  • since 1984 editor of the "Sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur Rundschau"
  • since 1998 member of the editorial team of the journal "Theory and Practice of Social Work"
  • since 1998 editor of the book series “Basic Texts for Social Education / Social Work” at Juventa Verlag
  • since 1998 co-editor of the "Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thielen wants to sharpen the profile of the foundation . In: New Westphalian . January 3, 2008.
  2. ↑ Peter Thelen: The fear of men in front of the family . In: Handelsblatt . February 27, 2008, p. 5 .
personal data
SURNAME Rauschenbach, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen