Browsing Global social work: crossing borders, blurring boundaries by subject "human services"
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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 ...Book 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. ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book chapter -
Global education for social work: old debates and future directions for international social work
Published 2014-09-08Social work is enmeshed in the context of globalisation, offering new opportunities as well as threats to the profession and its educational sector. As a result, interest in international social work has expanded, yet the ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book 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, ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book 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 ...Book chapter