Description
Book SynopsisThis book is full of ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago. Radical social work is an approach to social work that has, at its heart, the departure from solely behavioural, moral or psychological understanding of service users' problems. Social work had originally been concerned with the moral character of people in trouble (usually poor people), making a clear division between those who were deserving' of help and those who were undeserving'. The rise of science and the psy' disciplines then led to psychological explanations for the difficulties people found themselves in.
Both explanations for social problems moral and psychological with their narrow focus on the individual have been enjoying a renaissance in recent times with the neoliberal self-sufficiency narrative (moral) and the more recent focus on trauma (psychological). Radical social work chal
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Trapped in discourse? Obstacles to meaningful social work education, research, and practice within the neoliberal university 3. Theoretical frameworks in social work education: a scoping review 4. Resisting neoliberalism in social work education: learning, teaching, and performing human rights and social justice in England and Spain 5. Promoting youth-directed social change: engaging transformational critical practice 6. Educating for critical social work practice in mental health 7. Strengthened by challenges: the path of the social work education in Ethiopia 8. Using creative modalities to resist discourses of individualization and blame in social work education 9. Resident participation as learning and action – a participatory action learning project in social work education 10. Transforming social work’s potential in the field: a radical framework
