Private Troubles or Public Issues?

Challenges for Social Work Research
Herausgeber: Lorenz, Walter; Shaw, Ian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book bears testimony to the value of a progressive form of academisation of social work education in most European countries, including former communist countries which had to re-establish social work education. It also manifests the confidence of contributors in belonging to a serious academic discipline, and the fruitfulness of bringing research 'home' from neighbouring disciplines such as sociology, psychology, social policy, or pedagogy into the mainstream of social work. The contributions to this book converge on a small number of core issues for contemporary social work. These are methodologically the conceptualisation of different and interacting dimensions of diversity, and practically the defence of professionalism and discretion against encroachment by neo-liberal ideologies and cost-cutting regulations. In so doing, this underscores that theory matters in social work. Authentic social work research can demonstrate that social work practice has no reason to shy away from basing itself on evidence and being professionally accountable as long as its notion of evidence recognises and does justice to the complexity of social problems and acknowledges the value of inter-subjectivity in producing useable and ethically grounded evidence. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Social Work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780367143251
• ISBN-10: 0367143259
• Artikelnr.: 56881840

Autorenporträt

Walter Lorenz is Professor of Social Work at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, and was previously Jean Monet Professor at University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland. His research focuses on the interface between social policy and social work practice in different European contexts. Ian Shaw is Professor Emeritus at the University of York, UK. He was the inaugural chair of the European Social Work Research Association, and his most recent book is Social Work Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Private troubles or public issues? Challenges for social work
research 1. Reconsidering the 'idea' of evidence in evidence-based policy
and practice 2. Science and social work: a sketch 3. Reaching the
person-social work research as professional responsibility 4. Standing up
to complexity: researching moral panics in social work 5. Social work
education in a time of national crisis in Greece: educating the workforce
to combat inequalities 6. Attitudes toward poverty among exit students of
undergraduate social work programs in eight Latin American countries 7. The
circle of social reform: the relationship social work-social policy in
Addams and Richmond 8. The street-level delivery of activation policies:
constraints and possibilities for a practice of citizenship 9. Active
social policies revisited by social workers 10. Investigating the quality
of social work. An experience of self-assessment with Italian social
workers 11. Towards an interactional approach to reflective practice in
social work 12. Critical factors of intensive family work connected with
positive outcomes for child welfare clients 13. Migrant voices addressing
social work: listening to Italian women in Germany 14. Culturally sensitive
social work: promoting cultural competence 15. Education, ethnicity and
gender. Educational biographies of 'Roma and Sinti' women in Germany 16.
Social assistance trajectories in Switzerland: do they follow discernible
patterns? 17. Standardisation-the end of professional discretion?