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This article discusses the encroachment of neoliberal ideology on social work education, by emphasizing the experiences of two young academics in dealing with this impact at the level of teaching, research and writing. The central argument is that the basic values of our profession are threatened if as academics we remain inattentive to the impacts of ...
Samantha Wehbi, Pierre Turcotte
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TRANSFORMING SOCIAL WORK: CONTEXTUALISED SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
Despite significant transformation efforts in South African social welfare, social work education still inducts students into prevailing paradigms. Critics suggest that dominant social work is ineffective in that it is culturally inappropriate, marginalises other knowledges, overlooks structural issues, is expensive and is mismatched to local needs ...
Turton, Yasmin, Schmid, Jeanette
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This chapter deals with changing patterns of social work education in a rapidly globalising world. Neoliberalism and advances in information technology are creating spaces for cross-border, virtual education as never before. The chapter interrogates the impact of neocolonial, capitalist expansion of higher education as a tradable commodity, and reviews
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SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION IN ALCOHOLISM [PDF]
Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75044/1/j.1749-6632.1971.tb30718.x ...
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Transnationalism and social work education [PDF]
Transnational movements, networks, and relationships are everywhere in this “world on the move” (Williams & Graham, 2014, p. i1). Transnational peoples maintain relationships of interdependence and support with families and communities in their places of origin, often returning regularly, while starting new lives and making new connections ...
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Social Work Education Canada’s North
The Faculty of Social Work program at the University of Regina is a broker for two social work programs north of the 60th parallel reaching the northern residents of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ancestry. In addition, for over 30 years, the University of Regina partners with the First Nations University of Canada where a specialized Bachelor of ...
Douglas Durst, Nicole Ives
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Social work education: learning from the past?
The history of the regulation of the personal social services from 1970 onwards is described, contextualised and analysed. The various purposes and styles of inspection within regulatory systems are identified and discussed. The effects and contributions of competitive tendering of services, the Performance Assessment Framework, Joint Reviews, Best ...
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International social work education:
In this chapter I analyse themes that emerge from scholarship on international social work education in the Canadian context. I focus on international student exchanges in my analysis through a centring of the multicultural/settler identity of Canadian society.
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Internationalizing Social Work Education
2017A historical and contextual account of how social work education became widely adopted in different national and cultural environments.
Gurid Aga Askeland, Malcolm Payne
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