Prof. Dr. Marion Ott

• Social work as education, care and upbringing in childhood
• Institutionalized care relationships in social work (especially child and youth welfare)
• Pedagogical foundations of social work
• Qualitative research methods
• Critical reflections on child protection and early help

• Ethnographic institutional research in social work fields
• Gender and childhood research
• Methodological linking of ethnography and discourse analysis
• Power analysis, discourse and practice theories

Ott, Marion (2020): Contradictions (not only) of child protection. Conflict relations in the inpatient care of young mothers. In: Kelle, Helga; Dahmen, Stephan (Eds.): Ambivalenzen des Kinderschutzes. Empirical and theoretical perspectives. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, pp. 62-81.

Ott, Marion (2019): Conflicts in educational care relationships of the penal system. Social work with incarcerated women and their children in the field of tension between prison and child and youth welfare. In: Sozial Extra, Jg. 43, H. 4, 244-248.

Klein, Alexandra; Ott, Marion; Seehaus, Rhea; Tolasch, Eva (2018): The category of 'at-risk mother'. Classification and responsibilization in the name of the child. In: Stehr, Johannes; Anhorn, Roland; Rathgeb, Kerstin (Eds.): Conflict as relationship - conflict as behavior - conflict as resistance. Contradictions in the design of social work. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 127-142. 

Ott, Marion (2017): On the organization of observation spaces in the field of tension between parental responsibility and child protection. In: ZSE Journal of Sociology of Education and Socialization, Vol. 37, H. 4, 350-365. 

Ott, Marion (2017): The 'best interests of the child' as a reference point in inpatient assistance for young mothers. In: Sutterlüty, Ferdinand; Flick, Sabine (eds.): Streit ums Kindeswohl. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, pp. 166-188. 

Hontschik, Anna; Ott, Marion (2017): The inpatient mother-child facility as pedagogically institutionalized living space. In: Meuth, Miriam (Ed.): Wohnräume und pädagogische Orte. Educational approaches to housing. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 123-148. 

Ott, Marion (2016): Activating (in)competencies in practices of testing - how unemployment is practically personalized. In: Anhorn, Roland; Balzereit, Marcus (eds.): Handbook of therapeutization and social work. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 709-724. 

Ott, Marion (2015): Examining practices of activation as a complex phenomenon. On working towards a power analytic ethnography. In: Fegter, Susann; Kessl, Fabian; Langer, Antje; Ott, Marion; Rothe, Daniela; Wrana, Daniel (Eds.): Educational Discourse Research. Empirical analyses of educational and educational relations. Wiesbaden: VS, pp. 231-248. 

Ott, Marion (2010): 'Messen' und 'sich messen' - zur diagnostischen Überprüfung motorischer Leistungen. In: Kelle, Helga (ed.): Kinder unter Beobachtung. Cultural analytic studies on pediatric developmental diagnostics. Opladen: Barbara Budrich, pp. 179-205. 

Ott, Marion; Wrana, Daniel (2010): Governmentality of discursive practices. On the methodology of analyzing power relations using the example of a measure to activate the unemployed. In: Johannes Angermüller; Silke Dyk van (eds.): Discourse analysis meets governmentality research. Methodological perspectives on the relationship between subject, language, power and knowledge. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, pp. 155-181. 

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Research projects (selection)

A complete list of my research can be found here.

• German Society for Educational Science (DGFE)
• Section Women's and Gender Studies in Education (Section 11 of the DGFE)
• Section Social Pedagogy and Pedagogy of Early Childhood (Section 8 of the DGFE)
• International and Interdisciplinary Network Discourse Analysis (diskursanalyse.net)
• Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's Studies and the study of gender relations
• Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies Association e.V.

• Organization of a symposium on "The Social as an Arena of Conflict. Configurations of social participation along the differentiation public|private in welfare state relations of care" at the International Ethnography Conference 'Going public' ? Educational Ethnography and its Publics on October 31 - November 2, 2019 at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (together with Antje Langer, Rebecca Mörgen, Falko Müller.
• Organization of a symposium on "Contradictions of the Materialization of New Educational Spaces" at the 25th Congress of the German Society for Educational Science, March 13-16, 2016 in Kassel (with Daniel Wrana).
• Organization of a working group on "Object Construction and Research Design in Praxeological Studies on Practices of Differentiation" at the conference "Praxeologie & Differenz im erziehungswissenschaftlichen Diskurs" from January 28-29, 2016 at the European University Flensburg (with Antje Langer, Daniel Wrana, Cornelia Dinsleder and Katharina Helena Scharl).
• Organization of a working group on "Activating the 'Good' Mother for the Good of the Child. Reconstructions of the Relationship between Child Welfare and Motherhood in Child Protection" at the 9th Federal Congress of Social Work 2015, September 30-October 2, 2015 in Darmstadt (with Rhea Seehaus).
• Organization of a working group on "Objects and Methods of Discourse Analysis in Educational Science" at the 22nd Congress of the German Society for Educational Science, March 14-18, 2010 in Mainz (with Daniel Wrana).
• Collaboration in the planning, organization and realization of the conference "Ethnographic Research in Educational Science. Fields, Theories and Methodologies" from November 26-28, 2009 at the Goethe University Frankfurt (with Helga Kelle, Barbara Friebertshäuser, Heike Boller, Sabine Bollig, Christina Huf, Antje Langer and Sophia Richter).
• At this conference: Organization of a working group on ethnography and discourse analysis (with Helga Kelle, Antje Langer and Kerstin Rabenstein).
• In the context of a student working group: collaboration in the planning, organization and realization of the conference "Lead me gently. Governmentality - Connections to Michel Foucault" in November 2002.