Social Work Education in Europe
«“This book is a collective joint work that features ten European countries social work profiles: Finland, Latvia, Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Croatia, Romania, and Cyprus and the development of the social work education and practices within their terrains. … interesting about this book is that no matter what context or history or education, Social Work Will always remain a core key for the development of society toward a sustainable, equal, and justice one.” (Gloria Abdo, European Journal of Social Work, Vol. 26 (3), 2023)»
This contributed volume provides an in-depth overview of current social and socio-political transformations in Europe and their effects on social work and its educational structures. It elucidates these transformations and structures at the individual level of ten different countries and goes on to elaborate a European perspective in this field. Les mer
The introduction outlines the current developments and challenges facing social work education in Europe, contextualizing the topics to be covered in the volume. Each chapter offers an individual country profile of social work, including an analysis of typical examples of different traditions of educational models for social work that, collectively, provide insight into an overall "European model of education for social work". The countries selected represent all parts of Europe:
Finland
Latvia
Germany
United Kingdom
The Netherlands
France
Italy
Croatia
Romania
Cyprus
European Social Work Education: Traditions and Transformations is an essential resource - an up-to-date and differentiated inventory of social work education in Europe from a horizontal and vertical perspective - which describes fields of work and approaches that prepare students to practice social work, examines the degree of academization of the discipline and investigates its structures and conditions. Social workers and social work educators, researchers and practitioners will find this an engaging and useful text.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 231
- ISBN
- 9783030697006
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«“This book is a collective joint work that features ten European countries social work profiles: Finland, Latvia, Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Croatia, Romania, and Cyprus and the development of the social work education and practices within their terrains. … interesting about this book is that no matter what context or history or education, Social Work Will always remain a core key for the development of society toward a sustainable, equal, and justice one.” (Gloria Abdo, European Journal of Social Work, Vol. 26 (3), 2023)»