Gurid Aga Askeland: 2 books
Globalization and International Social Work
Postmodern Change and Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Globalization challenges social work with constant social change, making a social worker's job and the task of social work education more complex and uncertain. Post-modern thinking suggests that social workers must learn to cope with complexity in ways that are in tension with the increasingly managerialist...
Internationalizing social work education
Insights from leading figures across the globe
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
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...