Editorial: Social Media in Youth Work

Abstract

rofessionalisation perspective. The focus was, among other things, on the perception of professional pedagogical action by the pedagogical staff, the importance for pedagogical action of defining SMP as areas of action, as well as the development of strategies to meet professional standards of social work under media conditions.
In Chapter 1 Entwicklung der Foki und Ziele, the developments of the research focus, questions and objectives are traced and the theoretical and empirical connections between the published contributions are established. My empirical data are taken from episodic interviews conducted with educational specialists from Berlin youth leisure facilities (in short: JFE) in 2012/13 and 2017. The data evaluation was carried out by means of open and axial coding and on the basis of the coding paradigm according to the (Reflective) Grounded Theory. In order to enable the reader to understand the decisions and analyses made in the research process, the methodological implementation of the research is explained and explained in detail in Chapter 2 Empirische Untersuchung. A summary of the research results from the sub-publications can be found in Chapter 3, where the individual results are assigned to three central topic areas. From these, consequences for the professional actions of educational specialists are derived in the subsequent 4th chapter and research desiderata are formulated in the 5th chapter. The present editorial ends with a tabular overview of the publications produced and published in the context of this cumulative dissertation project (Chapter 6).