Abstract:
This work founded a cultural theoretical interpretation of family and then adressed the question of what it means for the socio-educational work with families in the home based family support services, when they move from understanding the family as a symbol of the culture originates. The interest of this work is the relationship of social education and culture to be strengthened. This work is also interested in make a contribution to counter-discurse against fixations of the theoretical and practical pedagogical perspective on social problems and loss of life practice. Based on Ernst Cassirers philosophy of symbol forms and given to their general provisions, a concept of family as a symbolic form will be generated. This is family as a cultural figure, shown in their historic size and uniqueness, that can claim their place in the culture apart from the religion, the arts, technology or the language. Following the theory model of Cassirer, their dimensions were materialized in the horizon of historical and social science literature.
Family as a symbolic form refers to the historically diverse forms of families, given to the basic pattern of the family as the family budget. The family budget as a cultural icon performs a specific cultural achievement: the everyday, private care for each other. It is one of a crop-specific functional and cultural dexterity and the other to an emotional, cognitive and linguistic skills. The latter is rooted in the symbolic form of mythic thinking. Historically grown and meaningful action and experience dimensions relate to each, therefore express in family lifes a specific cultural competence, which gives the family life its symbolic form.
A draft family-supportive work as a cultural practice focuses on access to families, which their cultural competence for various reasons at some time do not, or do not sufficiently realize, and hence can not adequately convey. The family cultural competence, which in all facets of family life symbolically achieved and in this way meets the home based social-educational work, it means: Professional work with families needs not a sort of asymetrical relationship based on an educational intentions, but recognition and strengthen of skills, understanding, enlightment both in conversation as in real assistance. The design of practical cultur-work with families in the last part of the work illustrates materials and case descriptions from the practice of socio-educational cultural work with families.