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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 ...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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 ...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 -
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