Global social work: crossing borders, blurring boundaries: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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