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Indigenism and Australian social work
Published 2014-09-08Indigenism is a concept that has emerged over the last 20 years as a result of the engagement of Indigenous academics with research. It is a way of claiming a space within research for Aboriginal knowledge systems and ways ...Open AccessBook chapter -
International social work education: the Canadian context
Published 2014-09-08In this chapter I analyse themes that emerge from scholarship on international social work education in the Canadian context. I focus on international student exchanges in my analysis through a centring of the multicultu ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Learning from our past: climate change and disaster interventions in practice
Published 2014-09-08Social work has a lengthy history of intervening in disaster situations – natural and human-made, especially in philanthropic work with faith-based organisations and individuals. This changed with institutional forms of ...Open AccessBook chapter -
No issue, no politics: towards a New Left in social work education
Published 2014-09-08This chapter articulates a new politics for social work education in light of its public statements on confronting injustice and inequality (Global Agenda, International Federation of Social Workers, International Association ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The Nordic welfare model, civil society and social work
Published 2014-09-08Over several years the United Nations (UN) has been ranking the Nordic populations amongst the happiest in the world. One of the factors that seem to contribute to the happiness is an underlying trust between people. Another ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Reflections of an activist social worker: challenging human rights violations
Published 2014-09-08Activism in social work can arise from practitioner wisdom that prompts action to respond to human rights violations. This paper offers reflections on the Eileen Younghusband keynote address in South Africa in 2008. I ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education and family in Latin America: a case study
Published 2014-09-08The chapter develops a comparative analysis of three social work programs applied in three Latin-American countries, to answer the question whether these programs do or do not include teaching about families in a way that ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education and training in southern and east Africa: yesterday, today and tomorrow
Published 2014-09-08In Africa, social work is considered a young profession, as it was imported from the West at the beginning of the last century. Critics have expressed concern that African social work education, because of its Western ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education as a catalyst for social change and social development: case study of a Master of Social Work Program in China
Published 2014-09-08In response to the urgent need for professionally trained social workers to help in alleviating emerging social problems in China after the introduction of the market economy, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia
Published 2014-09-08Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia have unique histories which have strongly shaped the development of social work education within their settings. This chapter explores the commonalities and differences of each country ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education in Eastern Europe: can post-communism be followed by diversity?
Published 2014-09-08Social work education in Eastern Europe is marked by a historical period of state socialism and its socially constructed understanding of the person and the collective. Since the individual was subsumed by the collective, ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education in Indonesia: challenges and reforms
Published 2014-09-08The social work profession in Indonesia has not yet become a desirable occupation that parents would like their children to take up, as opposed to a doctor or an engineer. This is partly because the profession is not widely ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education in South Asia: diverse, dynamic and disjointed?
Published 2014-09-08Social work, claiming to be a global profession, is struggling for its legitimate identity in South Asia. South Asia is home to over one-fifth of the world’s population, making the region one of the most populous and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education in the Caribbean: charting pathways to growth and globalisation
Published 2014-09-08Professional social work education began in the English-speaking Caribbean in 1961. Over time there has been a gradual development of undergraduate and graduate social work programs in the region. These programs which vary ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education in the post-socialist and post-modern era: the case of Ukraine
Published 2014-09-08During the last decade there have been significant changes in social work observed in many post-socialist and post-Soviet countries (Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Georgia etc.). The aim of this chapter is to introduce the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education in the United Kingdom
Published 2014-09-08This chapter examines key areas in social work education theory, practice, and research in the UK, including the main methods used and the client groups with whom social workers engage. The chapter sketches the origins and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education in the United States: beyond boundaries
Published 2014-09-08Today in the United States of America, social work education at the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral levels enjoys high demand, while continuously evolving in response to its environment and the changing context of ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education: current trends and future directions
Published 2014-09-08This chapter deals with changing patterns of social work education in a rapidly globalising world. Neoliberalism and advances in information technology are creating spaces for cross-border, virtual education as never before. ...Open AccessBook chapter