Prof. Dr. Arnd Götzelmann
Protestant theologian, diaconal scientist
Professorship for Social Policy, Social Ethics and Diaconics
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Subject areas
- Ethics
- Social work in the context of inclusion, health and gerontology
- Scientific work, methods of social research
- Projects: Biography and everyday professional life of social work, human rights, social management, daycare work, family policy, counseling, etc.
- History of social work training
Research focus
- Welfare association research and diaconal science
- Social and business ethics
- Biographical research, oral history and history of social and health services
- Human rights and social work
- Disability studies, participation of old and sick people
- Pastoral psychology and pastoral care, systemic family therapy
Ongoing research projects
- Reflections of Welfare State Transformation in Biographical Narratives of Everyday Professional Life in Diaconal Social Work.
Research Project Welfare State Transformation.pdf. - The development of Protestant training institutions for social work, church-based diaconal professions and nursing in the Palatinate - contemporary historical studies.
Research Project Development Evang. Training Institutions.pdf. - Anniversary publication 2018 "Two and a half anniversaries".
- Monograph 2019 "On the history of evangelical training institutions for social work in the Palatinate.
Professional career
| 1981 | Studied Protestant Theology at the Universities of Bonn, Melbourne (Australia) and Heidelberg (Germany) |
1981-1987 | Studies of Protestant theology at the Universities of Bonn, Melbourne (Australia) and Heidelberg |
1987-1993 | Vicar, parish priest, hospital chaplain in Mutterstadt and Ludwigshafen a.Rh.; church congregation and organizational consultant; part-time study of diaconal science at the University of Heidelberg |
| 1992 | Doctorate at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Heidelberg |
| 1993-1999 | Research assistant at the Institute of Diaconal Science at the University of Heidelberg |
| 1999-2003 | Further education and training officer at the Diakonisches Werk Pfalz, Speyer |
| 2002 | Habilitation and private lecturer at the Augustana University Neuendettelsau; accreditation as systemic family therapist (SG) |
| 2002-2003 | Endowed professor for diaconia at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen |
| since 2003 | Professorship for Social Policy, Social Ethics and Diaconics at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen |
| 2003-2008 | Speaker (Dean) of the Department of Social Work |
| 2005-2012 | Director of the Master's program in Management in the Welfare Sector |
| 2009-2013 | Vice Dean of the Faculty Social and Health Services and University Council of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences |
Publications (selection)
- On the History of Protestant Training Institutes for Social Work in the Palatinate. An exemplary study of the professionalization and academization of social work since 1945. From the Protestant School for Church and Social Service (1948) to the Seminar 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, 2019.
- Two and a Half Anniversaries. The Department of Social and Health Services at Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences and its Prehistory since 1948, edited on behalf of the Department of Social and Health Services and the President of Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2018.
- Geschichten zum beruflichen Alltag in der Sozialen Arbeit als Zugang zu einer Historiographie wohlfahrtstaatlicher Transformation "von unten" Theoretische und methodologische Überlegungen zu einem Forschungsprogramm (together with Thomas Wagner), in: neue praxis. Journal of Social Work, Social Pedagogy and Social Policy 48. 2018/H. 5, 443-461.
- Helmut Tacke (1928-1988). Partnership-based pastoral care as "conversation in a biblical key," in Klaus Raschzok & Karl-Heinz Röhlin (eds.) (2018): Little history of pastoral care in the 20th century. Biographical Essays. Festgabe für Richard Riess zum 80. Geburtstag, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2018, 321-327.
- On Children's Lives in the City: Contradictions and Impulses, in Sabine Fischer & Peter Rahn (eds.): Kindsein in der Stadt. Education and a Good Life, Opladen & Berlin & Toronto: Barbara Budrich, 2017, 119-138
- Stubborn work on history - Autobiographical narratives of everyday professional life in social work in the context of welfare-state transformation (together with Thomas Wagner), in Contradictions 144. 2017, 69-82.
- Understanding dementia and "treating" it psychosocially. УДК 316.346.32, in: Вестник Шадринского государственного педагогического университета: науч. журн./ гл. ред. А. Р. Дзиов. - Шадринск. 2 (34)/2017, 20-26, Understanding dementia and "treating" it psychosocially. UDK 316.346.32, in: [dto. in Latin letters:] Vestnik Shadrinskogo gosudarstvenogo pedagogicheskogo universiteta: nauch. zhurn./ gl. red. А. R. Dsiov. - Shadrinsk. 2 (34)/2017, 20-26
- Education between interculturality and loss of religion, in Lifelong education in the 21 century: problems, tendencies, development prospects, congress volume 2, Shadrinsk/Russia, 2016, 36-39.
- Salutogenesis in Parish Education, in: Andreas von Heyl & Konstanze Kemnitzer & Klaus Raschzok (eds.): Salutogenese im Raum der Kirche. Ein Handbuch, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2015, 457-480.
- Ethics. Study letter of the Fliedner University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf: Fliedner University of Applied Sciences, 2012.
- Music as a dimension of the art of living and as a human right in old age. Ethical and Aesthetic Aspects in Social Work with the Elderly, in: Institut ekonomiki, upravlenja i prava (Kazan) /Fachhochschule Ludwigshafen am Rhein - Internationale Angelegenheiten FB IV, Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen (ed.): Metody esteticheskovo vosdeistvia v sozialnoi rabote - "Aesthetic Methods in Social Work". Contributions to the International Russian-German Scientific-Practical Conference in Kazan, September 20-24, 2011. Kazan: Institut ekonomiki, upravlenja i prava 2011, 69-74.
- 'Economization' as a challenge of diakonia. Diakoniewissenschaftliche und sozialethische Perspektiven, in: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik 54 (2010), 24-33.
- Kirche im Internet - Zur Kommunikation des Evangeliums in der Mediengesellschaft, in: Pfälzisches Pfarrerblatt 100 (2010), 8-17.
- Church community work, in: Volker Herrmann/Martin Horstmann (eds.), Wichern drei - gemeinwesendiakonische Impulse, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2010, 31-45
- Diaconal Pastoral Care Concepts for the Community, in: Volker Herrmann/Martin Horstmann (eds.), Wichern drei - gemeinwesendiakonische Impulse, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2010, 191-210.
- Business Ethics Workshop Compact. A study and workbook introducing economic ethics, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2010.
- Women's Diakonia and Nursing. In Conversation with Deaconesses in Speyer (Publications of the Diakoniewissenschaftliches Institut Vol. 37), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009 (edited together with Karl-Heinz Sahmel and Andrea-Eva Schwarz).
- Shaping Pastoral Care Systemically. Constructivist Concepts for Counseling Practice in Church, Diakonia and Caritas, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2008 (ed.).
- Soziale Gesundheit (Evangelische Hochschulperspektiven Bd. 3), Freiburg i.Br.: FEL-Verlag, 2007 (ed. together with Wilhelm Schwendemann in collaboration with Richard Edtbauer and Alexa Köhler-Offierski).
- Menschwerdung des Menschen. Education for helping professions in ecclesiastical responsibility. Festschrift für Dieter Wittmann zum 65. Geb., Freiburg i.Br.: FEL-Verlag, 2007 (ed.).
- Inter-Kulturalität (Evangelische Hochschulperspektiven Bd. 2), Freiburg i.Br.: FEL-Verlag, 2006 (ed. together with Wilhelm Schwendemann in collaboration with Alexa Köhler-Offierski and Hanns-Eckart Opdenhoff)
- Diakonische Seelsorge im 21. Jahrhundert. Zur Bedeutung seelsorglicher Aufgaben für die diakonische Praxis (Veröffentlichungen des Diakoniewissenschaftlichen Instituts Bd. 27), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006 (ed. together with Karl-Heinz Drescher-Pfeiffer and Werner Schwartz).
- Bildung (Evangelische Hochschulperspektiven Bd. 1), Freiburg i.Br.: FEL-Verlag, 2005 (ed. together with Wilhelm Schwendemann, Alexa Köhler-Offierski and Hanns-Eckart Opdenhoff).
- Qualification Program for Volunteer Coordinators of the Diakonisches Werk der EKD,
- Stuttgart 2004 (with the collaboration of Hartmut Kopf and Heiderose Gärtner)
- Diakonische Kirche. Impulses for congregational development and church reform. FS Theodor Strohm zum 70. Geburtstag (Veröffentlichungen des Diakoniewissenschaftlichen Instituts Bd. 17), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003; 2. durchges. u. erw. Aufl., Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2009 (ed.).
- Evangelische Sozialpastoral. Zur diakonischen Qualifizierung christlicher Glaubenspraxis (Praktische Theologie heute 61), Stuttgart et al: Kohlhammer, 2003
- Ethics teaching in diaconal educational institutions (geriatric and nursing care). Documentation and Materials on the Workshop of the Diaconal Academy Germany (DWI-Info Special Edition), Heidelberg/Speyer: DWI-Verlag, 2000 (ed.).
- Introduction to the Theology of Diakonia, Heidelberg Lecture Series (DWI-Info Special Edition), Heidelberg: DWI-Verlag, 1999 (ed.).
- Diakonia of Reconciliation. Ethical Reflection and Social Practice in Ecumenical Responsibility, Festschrift für Theodor Strohm <zum 65. Geburtstag>, Stuttgart: Quell (Gütersloher), 1998 (ed. together with Volker Herrmann and Jürgen Stein).
- Praktische Theologie, Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Kirche, 32 (1997), (from 1966-1993: Theologia Practica) issue 4, Seelsorge mit psychisch kranken und geistig behinderten Menschen (ed. together with Theodor Strohm).
- The Protestant Kindergarten as a Neighborhood Center in the Community. Documentation on the Model Project of the Diakonisches Werk Pfalz, (Diakoniewissenschaftliche Studien Bd. 9), Heidelberg: DWI-Verlag, 1997 (ed. together with Friedrich Schmidt)
- The Speyerer Diakonissenanstalt. Its history of origins in connection with Kaiserswerth and Strasbourg (Diakoniewissenschaftliche Studien 2), Heidelberg: DWI-Verlag, 1994.