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