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In the educational-political reform plans of the last few years (e.g. the federal all-day schooling program), different forms of cooperation between institutions of help for young people and schools have increasingly gained in significance. However, empirically solid knowledge on the effects of this cooperation is still rather limited. Taking as an example social work at schools, which is considered the closest form of cooperation between institutions of help for young people and schools, the authors analyze the state of knowledge on the effects, the interrelations of these effects, and the limits of the cooperation between institutions of help for adolescents and schools in the shape of action programs for school-related social work. By means of a meta-analysis of available empirical studies, the insights that have been generated so far as well as the deficits and blind spots of existing research and the subject-related and methodological challenges in future research on the effects and the use of social work are discussed.
In early modern times orphans have been children who could not expect sufficient support from their family because of lack of at least one parent, in most cases the father. This article will clarify of whom we are talking if we talk about orphans and what have been the conditions of living in a society which was organised by a high variety of status for these children. Why could they be called children at risk? What options have been developed to raise these children and how was the variety of institutions founded in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries organised? The author draws from a number of studies on the history of poverty and provisions for orphans throughout Europe concluding with some considerations of the relevance of the Waisenhausstreit, a prominent German controversy brought about by enlightened educators and medical doctors during the second half of the eighteenth century when the option of raising orphans in centralised institutions became a controversial issue. Micro-historical investigation into orphanages in various European countries between 1550 and 1750 offers strong evidence that our view of orphans and orphanages are shaped by nineteenth-century notions of poverty and indigent children.