Globally, social work faces increasingly complex cultural, political, economic, legal, organisational, technological and professional conditions.
Globally, social work faces increasingly complex cultural, political, economic, legal, organisational, technological and professional conditions.
Critically reflecting on the subject, this book heightens critical consciousness among social work researchers, educators, practitioners and students about the structural dimensions of social problems and human suffering; it highlights the inter-relationship between agency and structure and discusses strategies to challenge and change both individual and societal consciousness.
Offering the reader an opportunity to gain in-depth understanding of how critical reflection is possible in contemporary social work research, practice and education, it will be required reading for all social work scholars, students and professionals.
0.Preface. 1.Critical Reflection: Concepts and forms of knowledge in a
global world. 2.The sociology of knowledge: Ideology, critical reflection and
the consequences of capitalism to social work. 3.Critique in social work
research: Arguments for a synthesis between critical realism and German
critical theory. 4.Critical reflections on international social work
research: Beyond South/North divides. 5.Healing past wounds or addressing the
future? Critical social work in post-war settings. 6.Experiences of ethnic
discrimination: potentials for social change in Taiwan. 7.The Use of
Reflective Processes and Teams in the Practice of Supervision: A critical
glance.
8. Mature Law in the Nordic countries: Critical perspectives on
social work in the context of public authority. 9.From experimentalism to
governance tool: Local community work caught between emancipative goals and
the sanctioning state. 10.Learning from user perspectives: Critical
reflections in the frontline of employment oriented social work. 11.Applying
a salutogenic and interactional approach to critically reflect on
perspectives on disability in social work. 12.Integration is a two-way
process: Policy and social intervention among migrants. 13.Knowing risk: Why
we need an empirical quantitative critique in social work and research.
14.Decision making and risk in social work: Critical reflections on digital
technologies. 15.Revitalising the concept of surface and depth: An analytical
tool for critical reflection. 16.The promise of social change: Critical
reflections on social innovation.
Christian Franklin Svensson is a Ph.D. in anthropology and social innovation. Using ethnographic approaches and policy analysis, he has a focus on issues of welfare, civil society, social change, migration, inclusion, cross-sectoral cooperation and community. From several years of teaching and supervision, Svensson is firmly rooted in quality assurance and curriculum development in international programmes. He has been peer-reviewer for a number of journals including The Danish Anthropological Association, South Asia Research Journal, South Asian Development, Social Work and Society, The Inclusion Journal and VOLUNTAS. Svensson is an appointed external expert with the European Union Institutions; a UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab expert; and an associate member of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge.
Pia Ringų is Ph.D. in sociology and social work. She is associate professor of social work at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. She is the research manager of the research group SOSA addressing the specialised social work in the field of psychiatry and disability research. Pia Ringų has methodological competencies in method, theory and concept development within the social sciences and social work. Her scientific focus is on theory of science, realism, integrated analytical models and development of scientific models as ways to analyse the interaction between politics, management, knowledge and practice.
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