Full Description
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. Readers gain insight into the variety in social work and its educational structures in Europe and, at the same time, readers receive starting points for the exchange of ideas, collaboration and further development in the individual countries and in Europe.
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, provideinsight 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.
Contents
1. Introduction: Current Developments and Challenges Facing Social Work Education in Europe; Walter A. Lorenz.- 2. Development of Social Work Practice and Education in Cyprus; Christos Panagiotopoulos and Agamemnonas Zachariades.- 3. Research-based Social Work Profession in the Finnish Welfare State; Sanna Lähteinen and Aila-Leena Matthies.- 4. Social Work Education and Training in France: A Long History to Be Energised by an Academic Discipline and International Social Work; Robert Bergougnan and Florence Fondeville.- Chapter 5. Social Work and Social Work Education in Germany: Development and Challenges in a Scientific and Practice-based Profession and Its Education; Marion Laging, Peter Schäfer and Miriam Lorenz.- 6. Social Work Education in Italy: Backwards and Forwards in the Establishment of the Social Work Discipline; Teresa Bertotti.- Chapter 7. Challenges for Social Work Education in Croatia: Lessons from a Post-Socialist Context; Ana Opačić and Nino Žganec.- 8. Social Work Education in Latvia: Post-Crisis Impact and Development Perspectives; Lolita Vilka and Marika Lotko.- 9. Reconstruction of Social Work Education in the Netherlands; Raymond Kloppenburg and Peter Hendriks.- 10. The Revival of Romanian Social Work Education and Its Prospects; Florin Lazăr.- 11. Social Work Education in the United Kingdom; Steven Lucas and Hakan Acar.
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