Social problems such as violence, drug use, excessive media consumption, behavioural problems, bullying or radicalization are usually seen as educational problems in children and young people and are handed over to educational institutions. Among other things, education is given the task of dealing with violations of norms and countering them through social/educational action. To what extent can we therefore speak of education as a central instance of social control? And how exactly does education function as an institution of problem solving and social control?
The conference is dedicated to the relationship between education and social control and focuses on a practice-theoretical perspective that can, among other things, make visible how social control is actually enacted in social/educational contexts and how unexpected consequences and constellations may arise. Together with selected, relevant researchers, central questions, methodological challenges and related research perspectives will be discussed.
Everything at a glance
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Event date
25.06.2026 & 26.06.2026 -
Venue
University of Siegen
Room AR-NA 016 (Senate Hall)
Campus Adolf-Reichwein-Straße -
Event format
Conference
Further information
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Speakers:innen
Karin Amos, Georg Breidenstein, Bernd Dollinger, Stefan Hirschauer, Nadia Kutscher, Heinz Messmer, Christian Meyer, Franka Schäfer, Nina Thieme, Anne Waldschmidt -
Organizer:inside
Prof. Dr. Bernd Dollinger
Center for interdisciplinary Crime Studies (CiCS)
Program | Info | Registration
| Thursday, June 25, 2026 | |
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| from 13.30 | Arrival & Coffee | Arrival & Coffee |
| 14.00-14.15 | Introduction |
| 14.15-15.00 | Stefan Hirschauer: Un/doing differences as a research heuristic |
| 15.00-15.45 | Anne Waldschmidt: Dis/ability as a dispositive. Practices of social control in the context of non-/disability from a dispositive analysis perspective |
| 15.45-16.15 | Coffee Break |
| 16.15-17.00 | Franka Schäfer: Educational events of social control? Methodological considerations on social control in the pedagogical context from the perspective of event-oriented practice theories |
| 17.00-17.45 | Bernd Dollinger: Social/pedagogical control as a practice of differentiation |
| from 18.00 | Evening program with restaurant visit |
| Friday, June 26, 2026 | |
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| 08.30-09.00 | Arrival & Coffee | Arrival & Coffee |
| 09.00-09.45 | Christian Meyer: From norms to practice: Social control as a subject of the interpretative paradigm of sociology |
| 09.45-10.30 | Nadia Kutscher: Algorithms, datafication and AI as means of social control in welfare state contexts |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00-11.45 | Georg Breidenstein: The school as a "disciplinary institution"? A plea for consideration of the inherent logic of teaching as a social practice |
| 11.45-12.30 | Nina Thieme: Categorization and control in the context of social work. A systematizing attempt to determine their relationship |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch Break | Food Court |
| 13.30-14.15 | Heinz Messmer: Practices of establishing institutional certainties in the field of tension between resistance and clientele commitments |
| 14.15-15.00 | Karin Amos: The "Troubled-Teen-Industry" revisted: Forms and disseminations |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee Break |
| 15.30-16.00 | Summary | Wrap-Up |
Conference venue
University of Siegen
Campus Adolf-Reichwein-Straße
Room: AR-NA 016 (Senatssaal)
Free parking is available in the immediate vicinity, see map.
We have reserved a contingent of rooms for you in several hotels. Please book early and use the keyword: Conference Practices of Social Control.
Please note that the booking, payment and possible cancelation must be made directly with the hotel. We cannot guarantee the availability of a room or cover the costs. However, we recommend using the following reserved contingents (We would like to point out that some of these are special rates that only apply when booking directly with the hotel, but not when booking via other portals! It is therefore best to use the e-mail address provided):
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Adapt Apartments Siegen |
Concorde Hotel Siegen |
Here you will find further accommodation options
in the Siegen area.
Contact
Dr. Anna Merle Baldsiefen
Schools II, Educational Science
Institute for Social Pedagogy
Adolf-Reichwein-Straße 2 a
57076Siegen
Participation in the conference "Practices of social control in social/educational contexts" is free of charge, but we ask you to register.
Registration deadline: June 10, 2026
Please use the following website to register.
