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Private Troubles or Public Issues? - Challenges for Social Work Research (Hardcover)
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Private Troubles or Public Issues? - Challenges for Social Work Research (Hardcover)
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This book bears testimony to the value of a progressive form of
academisation of social work education in most European countries,
including former communist countries which had to re-establish
social work education. It also manifests the confidence of
contributors in belonging to a serious academic discipline, and the
fruitfulness of bringing research 'home' from neighbouring
disciplines such as sociology, psychology, social policy, or
pedagogy into the mainstream of social work. The contributions to
this book converge on a small number of core issues for
contemporary social work. These are methodologically the
conceptualisation of different and interacting dimensions of
diversity, and practically the defence of professionalism and
discretion against encroachment by neo-liberal ideologies and
cost-cutting regulations. In so doing, this underscores that theory
matters in social work. Authentic social work research can
demonstrate that social work practice has no reason to shy away
from basing itself on evidence and being professionally accountable
as long as its notion of evidence recognises and does justice to
the complexity of social problems and acknowledges the value of
inter-subjectivity in producing useable and ethically grounded
evidence. This book was originally published as a special issue of
the European Journal of Social Work.
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