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This book is full of analysis and ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago.
Sommario
1. Introduction 2. Trapped in discourse? Obstacles to meaningful social work education, research, and practice within the neoliberal university 3. Theoretical frameworks in social work education: a scoping review 4. Resisting neoliberalism in social work education: learning, teaching, and performing human rights and social justice in England and Spain 5. Promoting youth-directed social change: engaging transformational critical practice 6. Educating for critical social work practice in mental health 7. Strengthened by challenges: the path of the social work education in Ethiopia 8. Using creative modalities to resist discourses of individualization and blame in social work education 9. Resident participation as learning and action - a participatory action learning project in social work education 10. Transforming social work's potential in the field: a radical framework
Info autore
Jane Fenton is Reader in Social Work at the University of Dundee, UK. She practised as a criminal justice social worker in Scotland for approximately 11 years before moving to the university in 2006. Her research and scholarship interests are in the newer generations of social work students; the effects of neoliberalism generationally and on practice; free expression and debate in the social work classroom; radical social work; and promoting attention to poverty and inequality by reclaiming liberal values for social work education. She has authored numerous journal articles, chapters, and two books:
Values in Social Work and
Social Work for Lazy Radicals.
Riassunto
This book is full of analysis and ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago.
