Global social work: crossing borders, blurring boundaries: Recent submissions
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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 ...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: current trends and future directions
Published 2014-09-08This chapter deals with changing patterns of social work education in a rapidly globalising world. Neoliberalism and advances in information technology are creating spaces for cross-border, virtual education as never before. ...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 -
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