The Protestant University of Applied Sciences was opened in 1971 under the auspices of the Palatinate Regional Church and dissolved in March 2008. Its degree programs and staff were transferred to the state-run Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences - now the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society - as a new fourth department of Social and Health Work. In the almost 37 years of its existence, the Protestant University of Applied Sciences operated degree programs in social work, social pedagogy or social work, nursing pedagogy and nursing management, religious pedagogy and church educational work, mediation, social gerontology and business management in the welfare sector. It developed activities in further education and training as well as research.
The book works up the history of this educational institution including its prehistory since 1946 and gives an overview of the developments of the department of social and health care, which emerged from it, from 2008 to 2022. It documents the organizational, the personnel, the curricular, the further education and research developments, and more. In an appendix, it contains four transcribed interviews with contemporary witnesses. The monograph addresses the academic self-image, the tension between academic freedom and ecclesiastical commitment, the closure debates and the change of sponsors, as well as the development of professionalization and expertise.
The author Dr. theol. habil. Arnd Götzelmann is Professor of Social Work at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society.
The book "History of the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen" was presented to the interested publicon June 28, 2023 in the auditorium of the Department of Social and Health Services of the HWG LU. Author Prof. Dr. Arnd Götzelmann anecdotally and entertainingly approached the history of the predecessor institution of today's Department of Social and Health Services from the founding of the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in 1971 until its closure in 2008. The book presentation was followed by a discussion round with lively participation of companions and contemporary witnesses. The book presentation was wonderfully accompanied musically by the well-known guitarist Claus Boesser-Ferrari, an alumnus of the Protestant University of Applied Sciences.
Arnd Götzelmann (2023):
History of the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen. From its foundation in 1971 to its closure in 2008. With a chronological overviewfrom 1946 to 2022
Norderstedt: Verlag Books on Demand, Paperback 512 pages with numerous illustrations and photos, (Print) 25,99 € ISBN: 978-3-7412-9011-4,
(eBook) 12,99 € ISBN: 978-3-7578-3596-5
Two other volumes have also been published as part of the same research project:
Arnd Götzelmann (ed.) (2018): Two and a Half Anniversaries. Der Fachbereich Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen der Hochschule Ludwigshafen am Rhein und seine Vorgeschichte seit 1948, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, Paperback, 468 p., Book price (Print) 19,99 € ISBN: 978-3-7528-9789-0, (eBook) 9,99 € ISBN: 978-3-7528-5754-2.
Arnd Götzelmann (2019): Zur Geschichte evangelischer Ausbildungsstätten für Sozialarbeit in der Pfalz. An exemplary study on the professionalization and academization of social work since 1945. From the Protestant School for Church and Social Service (1948) to the Seminary for Social Professions in Speyer (1950) to the Higher Technical Schools for Social Work and Social Pedagogy (1970) and the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen (1971-2008), Norderstedt: Books on Demand, Paperback, 200 pages, book price (print) €14.99 ISBN 978-3-7481-7235-2, (eBook) €11.99 ISBN 978-3-7481-9599-3.
Subject contact:
Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society
Prof. Dr. Arnd Götzelmann
Department IV Social and Health Services
Tel. 0621/5203-555
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