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