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Internationalising Social Work Education: Considerations & Developments
This monograph presents reasons for seeing the ‘internationalisation’ of social work education as an important task; ideas for implementing such a development; and learning derived from experience in this area. As well as presenting ‘experience based’ ideas and information, the references used will be a useful resource for those wishing to develop international perspectives and for students already pursuing comparative or international study.
Locating the Occupational Space for Social Work: International Perspectives
Against a backdrop of pressure from globalisation, managerialism, performance-based, audited and cost-controlled cultures, what is the future of social work? The collection of papers presented in this monograph provide critical and novel insights into current formulations of social work at national and international levels, with particular reference to national formulations in Denmark, Sweden, Scotland, England and Ireland. It will be invaluable to academics, managers and practitioners interested in comparative social work and social policy.
Looking After Children - Be My Social Worker: The role of the child's social worker
‘People Like Us: the review of safeguards for children living away from home’, published in 1997, recommended a study of the role of the field social worker with looked after children. This report is the Association’s response to that recommendation. It draws attention to the Government’s expectations of what local authorities will do for the children they look after and considers the particular role of field social workers in meeting those expectations. It draws on relevant research to discuss the role as seen from its most important standpoint, that of looked after children themselves, and to explore the part the...
Poverty
This ethnographic study of two social work teams combines a participant observation study of social workers with an analysis of the relationship between poverty and social work. It also incorporates findings from a three year qualitative study of social service users’ and carers’ experiences of community care. The book develops an unusual eclectic approach by applying psychological, sociological and social policy constructs to the study of poverty and social work. In conclusion it points the way forward to future social work practice, policy and research in relation to issues of financial deprivation and social exclusion.
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