Radical challenges for social work education
By: edited by Jane Fenton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781032218182
Subjects: Social work education; Social problems
Description: This book is full of ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago. Radical social work is an approach to social work that has, at its heart, the departure from solely behavioural, moral or psychological understanding of service users’ problems. Social work had originally been concerned with the moral character of people in trouble (usually poor people), making a clear division between those who were ‘deserving’ of help and those who were ‘undeserving’. The rise of science and the ‘psy’ disciplines then led to psychological explanations for the difficulties people found themselves in. Both explanations for social problems – moral and psychological – with their narrow focus on the individual have been enjoying a renaissance in recent times with the neoliberal self-sufficiency narrative (moral) and the more recent focus on trauma (psychological). Radical social work challenges those explanations, concerned as it is with the circumstances a person might find themselves in – poverty, poor housing, poor education, high crime rates, and lack of opportunities of all kinds. This book is a step towards resurrecting radical social work principles, and it urges us to think about how social work education can be reshaped to that end. Radical Challenges for Social Work Education is a significant new contribution to social work practice and theory, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Politics, Education, Social Work, Sociology, Public Policy, Development Studies, Anthropology, and Human Geography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1.; title: Introduction  -- Jane Fenton -- 2.; title: Trapped in discourse? Obstacles to meaningful social work education, research, and practice within the neoliberal university  -- Malcolm Carey -- 3.; title: Theoretical frameworks in social work education: a scoping review  -- Lisa Brophy -- 4.; title: Resisting neoliberalism in social work education: learning, teaching, and performing human rights and social justice in England and Spain  -- Helen Charnley -- 5.; title: Promoting youth-directed social change: engaging transformational critical practice  -- Michel Edenborough -- 6.; title: Educating for critical social work practice in mental health  -- Kate Stenhouse -- 7.; title: Strengthened by challenges: the path of the social work education in Ethiopia  -- Zena Berhanu -- 8.; title: Using creative modalities to resist discourses of individualization and blame in social work education  -- Elinor Assoulin -- 9.; title: Resident participation as learning and action -- a participatory action learning project in social work education  -- Katrine Mauseth Woll -- 10.; title: Transforming social work's potential in the field: a radical framework -- Sherika Caliste.