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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 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: 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 -
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 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 -
Envisioning a professional identity: charting pathways through social work education in India
Published 2014-09-08This paper presents an overview of social work as a profession in India, tracing its historical beginnings, philosophical base, dominant practice perspectives, its relevance in the country’s current socioeconomic and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
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 -
Transcending disciplinary, professional and national borders in social work education
Published 2014-09-08The following contribution addresses the questions: Is social work education prepared to promote the goals of the ‘Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development – Commitment to Action’ presented to the United Nations ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Educating social workers without boundaries through the Intercultural Social Intervention Model (ISIM)
Published 2014-09-08Some innovative and replicable aspects about the main contents of one educational program for social workers in Spanish are presented. The program is based on the critical analysis of implicit models and the development ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Transnational social work: a new paradigm with perspectives
Published 2014-09-08In the course of its professionalisation, social work seems to have got trapped in national social policy frames while our world is increasingly marked by transnational processes. Due to its structural location within ...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 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 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 -
The current status and future challenges of social work education in South Korea
Published 2014-09-08The growth in the number of social workers in the past six decades has been accompanied by a dramatic shift in social work education in South Korea. However, the quality of social work education was not fully considered. ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Contesting the neoliberal global agenda: lessons from activists
Published 2014-09-08With the ongoing failure of governments to protect their citizens from impacts of the neoliberal global agenda, civil society groups worldwide have moved into the breach. Social workers, as allies of these groups, are ...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 -
Towards identifying a philosophical basis of social work
Published 2014-09-08Social work has absorbed and adapted major theories from related disciplines since its inception as an applied discipline over 100 years ago. These positions have been used to construct its ethical underpinnings and its ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Economic crises, neoliberalism, and the US welfare state: trends, outcomes and political struggle
Published 2014-09-08The rise of neoliberalism in the US represents a response to the second economic crisis of the 20th century. Seeking to restore profits and economic growth, neoliberal proponents called for redistributing income upwards ...Open AccessBook chapter