Internationalizing Social Work Education Insights From Leading Figures Across the Globe
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Gurid Aga Askeland is social work professor emerita at Diakonhjemmet University College, now VID Specialized University, Norway.
Malcolm Payne is a leading international social work writer and educator, with professorial roles at Manchester Metropolitan University and Kingston University, UK.
"This important book reminds social work education that it has a history, with its own heroes who spearheaded the international development of the profession through a commitment to social justice and academic rigour." Steve Myers, University of Salford
Social work education has developed internationally over the past 50 years as part of wider processes of economic and cultural globalization. Diverse political and social events across the world have shaped social work and its education, leading to aims and methods that are shared and contested.
This book brings together, through 13 interviews and biographies, the lives, experiences and contributions of leading social work educators from Comoros, the Caribbean, India, Mexico, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom. Their receipt of IASSW’s Katherine Kendall Award recognized that they were at the forefront of establishing and securing social work education during this period of internationalization.
Exploring the aims and priorities of these leading social work educators, Askeland and Payne draw out a historical and contextual account of how social work education became widely adopted in different national and cultural environments. The Awardees’ diverse lives and professional experiences reveal the issues they faced, the paths they travelled and the prospects and threats confronting social work and its education more widely.
Part 1: International social work education: past and future
The changing contexts for international social work education
The awardees’ contribution reviewed
Issues for the future of international social work education
Part 2: International social work education: notable figures
Katherine A. Kendall (1910-2010): a brief biography
Armaity S. Desai, 1992
Herman D. Stein, 1994
Robin Huws Jones, 1996
Maria del Carmen Mendoza Rangel, 1998
Harriet Jakobsson, 2000
John Maxwell, 2002
Terry Hokenstad, 2004
Sven Hessle, 2006
Shulamit Ramon, 2008
Silvia M. Staub-Bernasconi, 2010
Lena Dominelli, 2012
Lynne Healy, 2014
Abye Tasse, 2016
Publishing rationale
• There is increasing interest on international perspectives on Social Work Education
• This is an original book, that will appeal to an international library market, which fits our commissioning plans to internationalise
• The editors are both well-known internationally (as are the interviewees), which will be a selling point.
• This will provide an opportunity to build relations with the International Association for Schools of Social Work (IASSW), who should also help us to promote the book
Unique selling point:
A truly unique book which uses original interview material with some of the leading contemporary Social Work Educators to provide an historical and contextual account of the development of social work education internationally.
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Gurid Aga Askeland is social work professor emerita at Diakonhjemmet University College, now VID Specialized University, Norway.
Malcolm Payne is a leading international social work writer and educator, with professorial roles at Manchester Metropolitan University and Kingston University, UK.