Anna-Maria Penetsdorfer
Project co-worker
University of Salzburg, Department of Educational Science, Working Group Social Pedagogy
Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1, 2nd floor, room 2.252, 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 (0) 662 / 8044-4203
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Short CV
Anna-Maria Penetsdorfer studied Pedagogy (Bachelor’s degree) and Educational Science (Master`s degree) at the University of Salzburg, specialising in Social Pedagogy and General Pedagogy. Since 2019, she has worked as a tutor and student assistant in the Social Pedagogy working group and as a temporary employee in a research project. During her studies, Anna-Maria Penetsdorfer focused in particular on questions of gender*justice (including the everyday life of women* with child(ren) in the context of the Corona pandemic) and (discursive) constructions / reproductions of ‘femininity*’ and ‘female* gender and sexuality’ in a Salzburg Catholic sexual pedagogical writing. Since 2023 she has been involved in two research projects as a project collaborator. She is also part of the organisational team of the »Theorieforum Salzburg« and holds a scholarship from Pro Scientia since 2022.
Main research areas and interests
- Critical and historical women’s and gender studies (with a focus on constructions of femininity in the context of care and motherhood/‘motherliness’)
- History of (social) pedagogy (in Austria)
- History of the discipline of academic (social) pedagogy in Salzburg
- disciplinary boundary/border work (‘curative education – (social)pedagogy – psychiatry’ in Salzburg)
- Reconstructive research methodology and methods: discourse theory and sociology of knowledge approach to discourse (SKAD)
Research projects
- Scientific analysis of violence against deaf children at the school ‘Josef Rehrl’ in Salzburg (duration: 11/2023 to 09/2026; director: Prof. Dr. Birgit Bütow and Prof. Dr. Sabine Seichter; funded by: state of Salzburg)
- Participation in child and youth welfare in Salzburg (duration: 05/2023 to 01/2024; director: Prof. Dr. Birgit Bütow; funded by: Kinder- und Jugendanwaltschaft Salzburg (kija))
- Student assistant: Developments in child and youth welfare in the (tense) relationship to curative education and child and adolescent psychiatry in the state of Salzburg. Historical reconstructions of the period 1945 to 1975 (duration: 2019-2022; director: Prof. Dr. Birgit Bütow; funded by: state of Salzburg)
- Master’s thesis: Of ‘the great woman*’ or ‘the great wooer’? A historical-reconstructive discourse analysis of the construction and reproduction of female* gender norms in the writing ‘Geschlechtsgeheimnis und Erziehung. Psychologie und Anthropologie der Geschlechter als Grundlage einer modernen Sexualpädagogik’ (1958/1964) by the Salzburg (religious) pedagogue Leopold Prohaska
Publications
- Penetsdorfer, A.-M. (2025, in preparation). ‚Die große Frau‘ or ‚die große Buhlerin‘ – Construction of (female) gender in the context of academic pedagogy in post-war Salzburg on the example of the (religious) pedagogue Leopold Prohaska. Annual Review of Social Work and Social Pedagogy in Austria, 7. [double-blind Peer Review]
- Holztrattner, M., Jenny, M. A., Penetsdorfer, A.-M., & Bütow, B. (2023). Families in crisis? Between destabilisation, refamilialisation and retraditionalisation. In N. Dimmel, & G. Schwaiger (Eds.), Children and adolescents in a pandemic society (pp. 141–158). Wiesbaden: Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-39304-5#about-this-book
Lectures
- 25.09.2024: ÖFEB congress »Diversity discursive. Educational approaches and pedagogical perspectives« (pedagogical college, Vienna): lecture ‘The woman* is not (any more) – Discursive genderspecific ‘othering’ based on the historical example of the sex education pamphlet (1958/1964) by the Salzburg (religious) educator Leopold Prohaska’ as part of the symposium »Knowledge (re)production(s) between diversity and normativity« [with Matthias Steffel, Claudia Schwertl and Sophie Schubert]
- 24: Federal Conference of the Austrian Professional Association of Social Work (obds) »Attitude.Power.Confidence. Ethical standards in social work as an anchor in turbulent times« (University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg): workshop ‘(More) successful participation in residential child and youth welfare’ [with Amancay Maria Jenny]
- 03.06.2024: Specialist conference »wertstatt/// youth work: empowering and enabling« (State of Styria – department 6 and Steirischer Dachverband der Offenen Jugendarbeit, Graz): workshop ‘Youth work as a space of opportunity for education and participation’
- 23.02.2024: Conference »Gender dimensions in history and historical research (on) social work« – AG Historical Social Pedagogy/Social Work (University of Applied Sciences Rhein/Main, Wiesbaden): lecture ‘‚the great woamn*‘ or ‚the great wooer‘ – Catholic-orientated sex education as a hegemonic point of reference for Salzburg pedagogy?!’
