Revitalising Critical Reflection in Contemporary Social Work Research, Practice and Education

ISBN-13: 9781032163178 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Opis

Globally, social work faces increasingly complex cultural, political, economic, legal, organisational, technological and professional conditions.

Spis treści

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.