Katharina Pontius, M.A.

Katharina Pontius studied “Social Work and Childhood Education (B.A.)” at htw saar and completed the Master’s programme “Research and Development in Social Pedagogy/Social Work (M.A.)” at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. After graduating, she worked as a lecturer and study programme coordinator at the Faculty of Social Sciences at htw saar from 2019 to 2022. Her dissertation project explores family transitions stimulated by changing care needs of elderly family members.

Dissertation project

The project focuses on families that provide care work for elderly family members. The question of the transitions that are constituted there shifts the focal point to changed practices of caring as well as their (generationally and gender-specifically framed) negotiation processes and their effects on family relationships. Central to the project is the assumption that all participants act both as caregivers and carereceivers in the family field. This is intended to provide a new perspective in a more psychologically oriented discourse. Usually caregiving situations are conceptualised here as crisis situations that have to be mastered by family caregivers. While the perspective of the caregiving relatives is regularly made the subject of research, the perspective of the elderly family members seems to be only rarely explicitly taken into account. With this background and with the aim of avoiding a dichotomisation along the categories ‘young’ and ‘old’, ‘healthy’ and ‘sick’, ‘care’ and ‘dependency’, the empirical approach of the dissertation is going to be via (multigenerational) family interviews and episodic interviews. The analysis of the data material is planned with the documentary method.
The aim of the dissertation project is to focus on a transition that has had little presence in educational science and to contribute to a relational understanding of transition and care practices with a special focus on interpersonality.

Teaching

Pontius, K. (2020 – 2022): Arbeitsfelder der Sozialen Arbeit und Pädagogik der Kindheit. Soziale Arbeit mit älteren Menschen. Seminar, Bachelor Soziale Arbeit und Pädagogik der Kindheit, htw saar, SoSe.

Pontius, K. (2020 – 2022): Diagnostisches Handeln und Fallanalysen. Proseminar, Bachelor Soziale Arbeit und Pädagogik der Kindheit, htw saar, SoSe.

Pontius, K. (2020 – 2022): Theorien und Konzepte der Sozialen Arbeit und der Pädagogik der Kindheit. Proseminar, Bachelor Soziale Arbeit und Pädagogik der Kindheit, htw saar, SoSe.

Pontius, K. (2020 – 2023): Einführung in die Arbeitsfelder der Sozialen Arbeit und Pädagogik der Kindheit. Übung, Bachelor Soziale Arbeit und Pädagogik der Kindheit, htw saar, WiSe.

Pontius, K. (2020 – 2023): Einführung in die Soziale Arbeit und Pädagogik der Kindheit. Proseminar, Bachelor Soziale Arbeit und Pädagogik der Kindheit, htw saar, WiSe.

Pontius, K. (2020 – 2023): Sozialisation, Erziehung und Bildung über den Lebensverlauf. Proseminar, Bachelor Soziale Arbeit und Pädagogik der Kindheit, htw saar, WiSe.

Pontius, K. (2021): Sorgearbeit und soziale Ungleichheiten. Seminar, Bachelor Soziale Arbeit und Pädagogik der Kindheit, htw saar, WiSe.

Pontius, K. (2020): Care als soziale Praxis. Wahlpflichtseminar, Bachelor Soziale Arbeit und Pädagogik der Kindheit, htw saar, SoSe.