History
... of the Alice Salomon School
The roots of the Alice-Salomon-Fachhochschule reach back to the year-long courses of education for welfare work which were co-founded by Alice Salomon in 1899.
The courses were expanded in 1908 into two-year comprehensive courses of professional training; the institution was given the name of Soziale Frauenschule (social school for women). This institution occupied a pioneering position in the area of systematic training for professional social work until 1933.
The "social school for women" was maintained in existence after the Nazis took power, but in 1934 nearly half of the teachers, including Alice Salomon, were dismissed and Jewish students were forced to leave the school. The course was subordinated to Nazi conceptions of "care of the Volk" and "education of the Volk". Thus, the school was given the new name of "Women's Professional School for Care of the Volk" (Frauenschule für Volkspflege).
After 1945 the school increasingly opened itself to male applicants.
This fact, and new substantive conceptions were the reason for a new renaming, this time to "Alice-Salomon-School, Seminar for Social Work".Together with other institutions of private and state education in social work it was finally reorganized in 1971 as a corporation of public law and has since been an academic institution for social work education: Fachhochschule für Sozialarbeit und Sozialpädagogik Berlin.
Today the Alice Salomon Hochschule (University of Applied Sciences) ) is one of the largest institutions for Social-Pedagogical Education in Germany, with departments for Social Work, Health and Social Care Management, Physiotherapy/Ergotherapy and Early Childhood Education.
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Introduction to
„100 Jahre Soziales Lehren und Lernen. Von der Sozialen Frauenschule zur Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin“,
Eds.: Adriane Feustel und Gerd Koch. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag 2008
