Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Power Politics and Social Work written by Rajendra Baikady and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook examines the impetus for the development, growth, and relevance of social work as a profession in different political, social, and cultural contexts. Contributions align with overarching contemporary themes such as changing governance structures around the world; digitalization and globalization; and decolonization. The book is also in line with the advancement of global agendas for social work and social development led by the IASSW, ICSW & IFSW. This contemporary text engages comprehensively with diverse political systems across the world and explores the interactions with, and implications for social work policy, practice, and education in these countries and globally.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work written by Francis J. Turner and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of us, as Canadians, are touched throughout our lives by some aspect of social welfare, either as recipients, donors, or taxpayers. But despite the importance of the social network in our country, there has been no single source of information about this critical component of our society. Even professionals in the field of social work or social services have not had a comprehensive volume addressing the myriad features of this critical societal structure. The Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work fills this need. Over five hundred topics important to Canadian social work are covered, written by a highly diverse group of social workers covering all aspects of the field and all areas of the country. Practitioners, policy makers, academics, social advocates, researchers, students, and administrators present a rich overview of the complexity and diversity of social work and social welfare as it exists in Canada. The principal finding from this project underscores the long-held perception that there is a Canadian model of social work that is unique and stands as a useful model to other countries. The Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work will be an important source of information, both to Canadians and to interested groups around the world. The Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work is available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.
Download or read book Social Professional Activities and the State written by Peter Herrmann and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guiding question of this work is the following: In which way, if at all, can we define a framework that allows a comparative view on social professional activity in an international perspective? Going beyond positivist research usually means to look for qualitative standards, however remaining caught by taking individual professions in a national setting from one country for granted and looking from what we know for 'counterparts' and/or 'partners' in other countries. To avoid the subsequent shortcoming of an underlying 'professional rigidity' we face the need of developing a functional perspective, focusing on the societies in which Social Professional Activities (SPA) emerge in their respective particular national patterns. This means, however, to start by defining 'the social' as determining societies in general, looking from there at different national patterns -- pragmatically but as well structurally the nation state will be taken as point of reference. In such a perspective, several current concepts have to be fundamentally questioned as far as the mainstream consensus is concerned. Terms in question are in particular: the social, professions and social problems - this is especially necessary when it comes to developing an international perspective. Despite the need of looking for a general definition of the social, there is in particular a more specific need for debating the understanding of different strands of activities that are - in the widest sense - captured as social professions, for example social work, community/youth work, nursing and care professions, but as well social management and social action (especially the latter pointing on the problematique of professionalisation in strictu sensu). International comparative research of social professional activities does not fail (primarily) because of the huge variety of national regimes and regulations. The actual reason is the fundamentally different point of departure, expressing various national traditions of the reasoning on the state - a reasoning being at the end a practical reasoning. In other words, we have to recur on the different national understanding of 'social contracts'. This approach allows taking a dialectical perspective in order to revisit the actual character of social professional activities. It is the practical confrontation of the individual with his/her environment that constitutes processes of socialisation.
Download or read book Social Work Education in Europe written by Marion Laging and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume provides an in-depth overview of current social and socio-political transformations in Europe and their effects on social work and its educational structures. It elucidates these transformations and structures at the individual level of ten different countries and goes on to elaborate a European perspective in this field. Readers gain insight into the variety in social work and its educational structures in Europe and, at the same time, readers receive starting points for the exchange of ideas, collaboration and further development in the individual countries and in Europe. The introduction outlines the current developments and challenges facing social work education in Europe, contextualizing the topics to be covered in the volume. Each chapter offers an individual country profile of social work, including an analysis of typical examples of different traditions of educational models for social work that, collectively, provide insight into an overall "European model of education for social work". The countries selected represent all parts of Europe: Finland Latvia Germany United Kingdom The Netherlands France Italy Croatia Romania Cyprus European Social Work Education: Traditions and Transformations is an essential resource – an up‐to‐date and differentiated inventory of social work education in Europe from a horizontal and vertical perspective – which describes fields of work and approaches that prepare students to practice social work, examines the degree of academization of the discipline and investigates its structures and conditions. Social workers and social work educators, researchers and practitioners will find this an engaging and useful text.
Download or read book Leaving Care and the Transition to Adulthood written by Varda R. Mann-Feder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition to adulthood is a longer and more complex process than it was just a few decades ago, and a growing number of youth and young adults experience significant challenges in the establishment of an autonomous and independent lifestyle when compared to previous generations. Successful high school graduation followed by employment is no longer the inevitable trajectory for young people, especially in the current socio-economic context where jobs are less accessible and more demanding in terms of specialized skills and higher academic qualifications. Unable to rely on family for emotional and financial support, vulnerable youth, who grow up in substitute care, are especially effected by the lengthening of this transition to adulthood. The dismal outcomes for youth growing up in care are by now well-documented, and more recently, a range of models have been proposed to help advance our understanding of these outcomes and how to forestall them. However, the literature on leaving care has long suffered from the absence of theory that could guide meaningful intervention. In response to this gap, Leaving Care and the Transition to Adulthood offers a comprehensive overview of the newest contributions to this area in relation to theory, in addition to the Theory of Emerging Adulthood, while also featuring cutting-edge research and best practices that support adjustment across a range of domains for this population. International in scope, this book focuses on bringing together major advances that span the literature on transitioning to adulthood within the care system, offering a unique and important contribution to the field.
Download or read book French and Other Perspectives in Praxiology written by Wojciech W. Gasparski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 12 in this distinguished series explores current topics in praxiology as studied in France and elsewhere. As is characteristic of contemporary praxiology, contributors both investigate new topics and use new methods to re-examine older approaches.Part 1 is composed of three sections by French scholars. These deal with humans as a subject of action as well as a subject of knowledge. In respecting the particular domains of psychology and praxiology, they demonstrate how they converge to shed light on the human being as an individual or as part of a group. The first section discusses relations between individual action and collective action, while the second section is concerned with relations between the act, objects, and space, and explores work spaces, production spaces, office spaces, and social spaces. The third section examines relations between action and cognition, a domain considered to be little understood in general. Finally, the role of mathematics in decision-making is discussed as a determinate of the praxiological process.The second part is composed of contributions by scholars from Finland, Great Britain, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the United States. The topics are: how praxiology helps economists understand cooperative actions and related issues of different responsibilities; how and to what an extent university education creates conditions for competitive advantage in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and how problems of corporate governance are approached in the region; how innovation influences competence in the region of established economy in Spain; and how information systems constitute a multi-agent system. Finally, a formal analysis of praxiological dimensions in light of the fuzzy logic approach is discussed.
Download or read book The Role of Higher Education in the Professionalisation of Adult Educators written by Maria N. Gravani and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on the important, but under-discussed, role of higher education institutions in both delivering academic programmes that provide relevant cognitive and professional skills and competences to future adult educators, and in being more actively involved in the current dialogue with regard to the professionalization paths of adult educators and trainers. The topics discussed here vary from the initial education and training of adult educators in higher education environments, to the role of universities as validating agencies of existing psycho-pedagogical competences for in-service adult educators. Particular attention is also drawn to the ways in which adult education policies and initial education and training opportunities for prospective adult educators affect the role of higher education institutions in terms of academic orientation and programme delivery.
Download or read book Lexique Fran ais Anglais Services aux personnes written by Céline Dudouet and published by Educagri Editions. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le secteur des services à la personne est en plein essor en France et en Europe. Il offre une grande diversité de métiers d'avenir et les offres d'emplois abondent. Ses acteurs travaillent aujourd'hui avec des publics de tous horizons, et peuvent aussi être amenés à se déplacer à l'étranger : c'est pourquoi l'anglais est devenu un atout certain et une compétence recherchée afin de répondre aux besoins de tous types de publics. Enseignantes dans la filière SAPAT (Services aux personnes et aux territoires), les auteures ont conçu ce livret pour accompagner leur pédagogie ainsi que les démarches professionnelles en anglais, de plus en plus fréquentes dans leurs formations. Ce lexique s'adresse à toutes les personnes en lien avec les différents secteurs des services : apprenants (du CAP au BTS, préparation aux concours et écoles de formation aux métiers des secteurs paramédicaux et sociaux), professionnels, et enseignants/formateurs pour un prolongement de leur pédagogie lorsqu'ils sont conduits à travailler sur du vocabulaire technique et professionnel et lors de la mise en place d'actions en collaboration avec des interlocuteurs anglophones. Il s'agit là d'un outil de formation - en aucun cas d'un manuel scolaire -, qui intervient en complément des cours dans le but d'aider à développer la communication en anglais dans le secteur des services. Le vocabulaire et les expressions les plus récurrents et les plus usités dans le domaine de spécialisation sont regroupés, selon les différents domaines d'intervention, en 10 chapitres : 1. Les publics ; 2. Organismes et professionnels ; 3. Les besoins ; 4. Le confort corporel de la personne ; 5. Le confort matériel ; 6. La nutrition ; 7. La santé ; 8. La vie quotidienne ; 9. Le cadre d'intervention ; 10. Milieu rural et territoire. Le contenu n'est pas exhaustif, tant ce secteur est vaste. Afin de faciliter la recherche de termes précis dans l'une ou l'autre langue, sont proposés en fin de lexique un index alphabétique français et un index alphabétique anglais. Ce lexique vous accompagnera dans vos études, dans votre formation professionnelle, dans vos déplacements à l'étranger (voyages, séjours, stages), et vous aidera à communiquer plus facilement en anglais dans votre secteur professionnel.
Download or read book Bridging Differences Understanding Cultural Interaction in Our Globalized World written by Newtona (Tina) Johnson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with passion, the stories told in this book are those of the search, loss and recreation of identities. From the Fiji-born women living in Canada looking for themselves to the Japanese of Korean origin having lost touch with their original culture, from the Catalonian demand for recognition to the quest for a common European heritage, we can read of the endless need of peoples to find their rightful place in our multicultural societies.
Download or read book Professions sociales pour une Europe sociale written by Friedrich W. Seibel and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die ERASMUS-Evaluations-Konferenz bildete zugleich den Abschluss und den Höhepunkt einer intensiven Phase der Evaluation der ERASMUS-Programme für die sozialen Professionen. Die Konferenz bot ein breites Forum, um sich zum einen über den aktuellen Stand der europäischen Zusammenarbeit in den sozialen Professionen zu informieren und sich zum anderen anhand verschiedener Beiträge renommierter Persönlichkeiten aus dem Berufsfeld mit der Weiterentwicklung einer europäischen Perspektive für die Ausbildungen auseinanderzusetzen. Dabei dokumentieren die einzelnen Vorträge und Workshop-Beiträge, dass die Konferenz in Koblenz nicht nur retrospektiv die Ergebnisse der ersten und nun abgeschlossenen Phase der ERASMUS-Programme präsentiert hat, sondern dass alle Beteiligten den wesentlichen Schwerpunkt auf die Frage der Fortführung der Kooperationen in der Zukunft gelegt haben. Besonders die Diskussionen in den Arbeitsgruppen verdeutlichen, daß die Weiterentwicklung einer europäischen und internationalen Perspektive für die sozialen Professionen in Europa über alle Grenzen hinweg ein vorrangiges Ziel der Kontakte bleiben muß und bleiben wird. Inhalt: Seibel, Friedrich W.: Opening Remarks of the Chairman. - Seibel, Friedrich W./Schäfer, David: Internationale Kooperation - Utopie oder vergessene Dimension? Eröffnung - Szenische Darstellung. - Lorenz, Walter: Social Professions for a Social Europe. - Marynowicz-Hetka, Ewa: Pedagogie Sociale comme paradigme pour le changement social. - Staub-Bernasconi, Silvia: Soziale Arbeit auf der Suche nach autonomen Paradigmen. - Karsten, Maria-Eleonora: Entwicklung von sozialen Professionen. Professionelle Organisationen in der Zukunft. - Lorenz, Walter: ERASMUS Evaluation. The Experience of the Social Professions - European Report. - Workshops (Session I. The Impact of ERASMUS on Education in the Social Professions. - Subgroup 1. Curriculum Development - Moving from a national to an international agenda (Friesenhahn, Günter J.: Überlegungen und Thesen). - Subgroup 2. L integration de la formation practique - Les stages dans les echanges d etudiants et leur evaluation (Eckmann, Monique: Workshop Paper). - Subgroup 3. Intensivseminare als Lernform zum Erwerb interkultureller Kompetenz? (Kühne, Klaus: Workshop Paper). - Subgroup 4. Intercultural Human Resource Development Europe (Huijsmans, Kees/Payne, Malcolm: Workshop Paper). - Lyons, Karen: Report Session I. - Session II. European and International Dimensions ...
Download or read book Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Psychoanalytic Social Work written by Sebastien Ponnou and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international and interdisciplinary collection argues for the use of clinical-based practices and research in social work, bringing together critical psychoanalytic ideas into social work practice to help tackle contemporary issues. With a Foreword written by Stephen Webb, this book brings together specialists from the main areas of research and clinical practices in social work, ranging from psychoanalysis, sociology, clinical psychology, ethnopsychiatry and philosophy. Arguing for a movement away from evidence-based practice, chapters discuss the need for psychoanalytic thought in contemporary social work knowledge, how this can be integrated in social work practice and training, the challenges faced by training and practicing social workers and the ethical issues relating to clinical-based practice. Filled with case studies throughout, these diverse and rich contributions will make social workers think deeply about advocacy, ethics and the systemic changes needed in the field. This book will be invaluable reading to training and practicing clinical social workers and mental health professionals interested in social intervention. It will also be interesting to psychoanalysts as well as those studying sociology, clinical psychology and philosophy.
Download or read book The history of youth work in Europe Volume 5 Autonomy through dependency written by Siurala, Lasse and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “History of youth work in Europe” series aims to achieve better understanding of current challenges in youth work and youth policy. Volume 5 addresses questions like: How have government policies and administrative practices over the past few decades affected youth work? What kind of strategies has youth work developed to react to them and to create a positive space for work with young people? Can educational approaches of youth work, like social pedagogy, help mediate between young people in their ever-changing lives and society? Co-operation between youth policy, youth research and youth work has been called “the Magic Triangle” – but is the magic still there? This publication discusses these and other topics from a variety of perspectives. The authors come not only from Europe, but also from the USA, Australia and South Africa, providing a refreshing, comparative reflection on youth work issues and opportunities, which is revealed to be global in nature. They also have diverse and varied backgrounds in youth research, youth work, youth policy making and youth worker training. This comparative historical perspective puts some of the pieces of the “youth work puzzle” together, while many are left unconnected. It also becomes apparent that there is an element of randomness in the historical development of youth work. Many structures, policies, approaches and methods are not “historically necessary”. Rather, many things could have come out differently. This volume on the history of youth work provides many readings: it provides a rich collection of national youth histories to complement and build upon the four earlier volumes, and histories and analyses of youth work for readers to compare with their own experience, sharpen their critical view and inspire their thinking.
Download or read book Children s Rights and the Capability Approach written by Daniel Stoecklin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the conditions allowing the transformation of specific children’s rights into capabilities in settings as different as children’s parliaments, organized leisure activities, contexts of vulnerability, children in care. It addresses theoretical questions linked to children’s agency and reflexivity, education, the life cycle perspective, child participation, evolving capabilities and citizenship. The volume highlights important issues that have to be taken into account for the implementation of human rights and the development of peoples’ capabilities. The focus on children’s capabilities along a rights-based approach is an inspiring perspective that researchers and practitioners in the field of human rights would like to deepen.
Download or read book Social Worker written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Pedagogy for the Entire Lifespan written by Jacob Kornbeck and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ambition of this two-volume publication is to illustrate the applicability of social pedagogy - as an academic and professional paradigm - to work with the most diverse target populations. It is launched at a moment when important and highly interesting developments can be observed in the United Kingdom: a country without a traditional social pedagogy model has started importing social pedagogy from countries with a social pedagogy tradition. Social Pedagogy for the Entire Lifespan illustrates how social pedagogy - as a model in theory and practice - has been and is currently being used, around and across Europe, for work with people of all age groups. Volume I is dedicated to the theory and history of social pedagogy, as well as to practice with children and young people. Chapters cover Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway and Spain. Volume II will include chapters on practice with adults and seniors, as well as chapters on further perspectives.
