Jim Ife, Rimple Mehta, Sharlotte Tusasiirwe

Re-imagining Social Work (eBook, PDF)

Towards Creative Practice

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108534741
• Artikelnr.: 70912253

Autorenporträt

'Jim Ife has been active in social work education since the 1970s. He has been Professor of Social Work at The University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Western Sydney University, and was also Handa Professor of Human Rights Education at Curtin, where he is now Emeritus Professor. His main interests have been community development and human rights, and he has published books in both fields. He has also been active in community engagement, and was President of Amnesty International Australia in the 1990s, as well as Secretary of the Human Rights Commission of the International Federation. of Social Workers. His best-known books are Community Development and Human Rights and Social Work (both in multiple editions with Cambridge University Press). He is now retired.'

Inhaltsangabe

1. Setting the Scene
2. Centering the human: the importance of humanities
3. Decentering the Human: Social Work in the Anthropocene
4. Epistemologies of the South and Indigenous Epistemologies
5. Decolonising social work
6. Beyond (Social) Science: Artistic Social Work and Creativity
7. Social Work and the Sacred
8. Technology
9. Social work, resistance and alternatives.