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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.
Written by leading authorities in the field, this challenging book
addresses complex issues of ethnicity and racial discrimination in
ways that encourage further debate and analysis. Its main theme is
that social work has been and remains, deeply implicated in racist
policies and practices that have been locality specific, but that
racism is also recognizable across borders as a phenomenon that
appears everywhere. At the same time, the book focuses on
innovative theories and practice which seek to promote an
emancipatory social work which sets itself the goal of eradicating
social injustice - particularly that applying to race. The
contributors come from a wide range of countries and describe their
experiences in tackling racism in social work at the levels of both
theory and practice. This provides an impressive range of
perspectives which cover models of social work created by people
who have had to live with racism and find ways of overcoming it as
well as those who have struggled to become able to express their
own ethnicity without oppressing others. The concluding message of
the book is a positive one - people can create a world that goes
beyond racial divides by accepting, validating and celebrating
diversity while at the same time recognizing that people share many
commonalities with others which can be used to establish
egalitarian relationships, realize social justice and communicate
effectively with each other.
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.
Written by leading authorities in the field, this challenging book
addresses complex issues of ethnicity and racial discrimination in
ways that encourage further debate and analysis. Its main theme is
that social work has been and remains, deeply implicated in racist
policies and practices that have been locality specific, but that
racism is also recognizable across borders as a phenomenon that
appears everywhere. At the same time, the book focuses on
innovative theories and practice which seek to promote an
emancipatory social work which sets itself the goal of eradicating
social injustice - particularly that applying to race. The
contributors come from a wide range of countries and describe their
experiences in tackling racism in social work at the levels of both
theory and practice. This provides an impressive range of
perspectives which cover models of social work created by people
who have had to live with racism and find ways of overcoming it as
well as those who have struggled to become able to express their
own ethnicity without oppressing others. The concluding message of
the book is a positive one - people can create a world that goes
beyond racial divides by accepting, validating and celebrating
diversity while at the same time recognizing that people share many
commonalities with others which can be used to establish
egalitarian relationships, realize social justice and communicate
effectively with each other.
This book presents a unique analysis of the learning derived from
East-West contacts in social work and reflects on the discipline's
inalienable trans-national dimensions, of high actuality in the
face of the re-emergence of nationalisms. The fundamental
transformations in Europe subsequent to the revolutions of 1989 had
a profound impact on social work in terms of raising sharply the
profession's relationship with politics. The exchanges between
western schools of social work and the emergent academic partner
institutions in former Communist countries formed a valuable
testing ground for the essential principles and competences of
social work in terms of their universal scientific basis on the one
hand and their regard for cultural and national values and contexts
on the other. The chapters in this contributed volume focus on
lessons derived from fundamental social and political
transformations, highlighted by East-West encounters and
intra-national divisions, and thereby have important messages for
mastering impending transformations in the light of the global
COVID-19 health crisis. They demonstrate how cultural and social
divisions can be addressed constructively with direct implications
for training and practice in dramatically changing contexts:
Lithuanian social work's claim to professional autonomy vs.
authoritarianism in popular and political culture Social work
between civil society and the state - lessons for and from Hungary
in a European context When Europe's East, West, North and South
meet: learning from cross-country collaboration in creating an
international social work master programme Nordic-Baltic
cooperation in social work researcher education: A Finnish
perspective on the impact on scientific, historical and linguistic
similarities and differences Intra-national similarities and
differences in social work and their significance for developing
European dimensions of research and education Social work,
political conflict and European society: reflections from Northern
Ireland European Social Work After 1989: East-West Exchanges
Between Universal Principles and Cultural Sensitivity is an
invaluable resource for social work educators; social work
practitioners confronted with national and international divisions;
students of social work, of social administration and policy; and
any policy researcher with a comparative focus.
This book discusses complex motivational conditions and strategies
on macro, meso, and micro levels promoting reflectivity in
interpersonal professional practice. The increasing demands
made on practitioners in social and health services, as illustrated
by the COVID-19 pandemic, can lead to great uncertainty over how to
find "the right response" to complex expressions of need and how to
account for ethical professional decisions in view of prevailing
strategies of 'risk reduction' and managerial accounting.
Reflectivity has been recognised as being of central importance for
guiding practitioners towards situationally differentiated and
accountable practice. However, it is a complex process made up not
only of different psychological components and their interplay with
educational and organisational contexts, but also of multilevel
interactions and purely situational conditions that can have
positive or negative effects. The individual and team reflectivity
can be learned and supported through various educational and
managerial opportunities, sensitively guided personal and
professional experiences and specific patterns of interaction which
are reviewed in the book.  Reflective supervision in
the workplace plays a pivotal role in enabling individual and team
reflective processes. However, there are also social and
organisational factors that can hinder the development of
individual and team reflectivity. The particular value of this
publication is that the authors focus on complex research findings
from several consecutive studies and critically review and discuss
the conditions for reflectivity from various perspectives and with
the background of rich academic literature and research. Their
research-derived empirical and analytical insights were submitted
to managers and educators, and effective and realistic strategies
and methods to enhance different levels of reflectivity in students
and practitioners were discussed and are summarised in this volume.
Among the topics covered: The significance of reflectivity in
professional social and health care in relation to changing
socio-political contexts Gender aspects of reflectivity in
the social and healthcare field Operationalisation of reflectivity
for research by personal, team and organisational scalesÂ
Cultural and communicational patterns of interaction enabling
professional reflective processes Enhancing Professionality Through
Reflectivity in Social and Health Care is pertinent reading
for professors of professional academic training programmes for
social workers, nurses, supervisors, trainers in non-formal
learning settings, students, and managers of social and health
services with an interest in enhancing organisational cultures.
This volume is devoted to innovation with a special focus on its
two sides, namely creation and destruction, and on its role in the
evolution of capitalist economies. The first part of the book looks
at innovation and its effects on economic performance, addressing
issues of motives, behavioral rules under uncertainty, actor
properties, and technology characteristics. The second part
concentrates on potential consequences of innovative activities, in
particular structural change, the "innovation-mediated" effect of
skill-oriented policies on regional performance, the destructive
effects of innovation activities, and the question whether novelty
is always good. The role of innovation in the evolution of
capitalism itself is discussed in the third part.
This volume is devoted to innovation with a special focus on its
two sides, namely creation and destruction, and on its role in the
evolution of capitalist economies. The first part of the book looks
at innovation and its effects on economic performance, addressing
issues of motives, behavioral rules under uncertainty, actor
properties, and technology characteristics. The second part
concentrates on potential consequences of innovative activities, in
particular structural change, the "innovation-mediated" effect of
skill-oriented policies on regional performance, the destructive
effects of innovation activities, and the question whether novelty
is always good. The role of innovation in the evolution of
capitalism itself is discussed in the third part.
Usually, the first edition of a book still contains a multiplicity
of typographic, con ceptional, and computational errors even if one
believes the opposite at the time of publication. As this book did
not represent a counterexample to this rule, the current second
edition offers a chance to remove at least the known shortcomings.
The book has been partly re-organized. The previously rather long
Chapter 4 has been split into two separate chapters dealing with
discrete-time and continuous time approaches to nonlinear economic
dynamics. The short summary of basic properties of linear dynamical
systems has been banned to an appendix because the line of thought
in the chapter seems to have been unnecessarily interrupted by
these technical details and because the book concentrates on
nonlinear systems. This appendix, which mainly deals with special
formal properties of dynamical sys tems, also contains some new
material on invariant subspaces and center-manifold reductions. A
brief introduction into the theory of lags and operators is
followed by a few remarks on the relation between the 'true'
properties of dynamical systems and their behavior observable in
numerical experiments. Additional changes in the main part of the
book include a re-consideration of Popper's determinism vs. inde
terminism discussion in the light of chaotic properties of
deterministic, nonlinear systems in Chapter 1. An investigation of
a simultaneous price-quantity adjustment process, a more detailed
inquiry into the uniqueness property of limit cycles, and a short
presentation of relaxation oscillations are included in Chapter 2.
"Is the business cycle obsolete?" This often cited title of a book
edited by Bronfenbren ner with the implicit affirmation of the
question reflected the attitude of mainstream macroeconomics in the
1960s regarding the empirical relevance of cyclic motions of an
economy. The successful income policies, theoretically grounded in
Keynesian macroec onomics, seemed to have eased or even abolished
the fluctuations in Western economies which motivated studies of
many classical and neoclassical economists for more than 100 years.
The reasoning behind the conviction that business cycles would
increasingly be come irrelevant was rather simple: if an economy
fluctuates for whatever reason, then it is almost always possible
to neutralize these cyclic motions by means of anticyclic demand
policies. From the 1950s until the mid-1960s business cycle theory
had often been consid ered either as an appendix to growth theory
or as an academic exercise in dynamical economics. The common
business cycle models were essentially multiplier-accelerator
models whose dependence on particular parameter values (in order to
exhibit oscillatory motion) suggested a rather improbable
occurrence of persistent fluctuations. The obvi ous success in
compensating business cycles in those days prevented intensive
concern with the occurrence of cycles. Rather, business cycle
theory turned into stabilization theory which investigated
theoretical possibilities of stabilizing a fluctuating economy.
Many macroeconomic textbooks appeared in the 1960s which
consequently identified business cycle theory with inquiries on the
possibilities to stabilize economies by means of active fiscal or
monetary policies."
This book presents a unique analysis of the learning derived from
East-West contacts in social work and reflects on the discipline's
inalienable trans-national dimensions, of high actuality in the
face of the re-emergence of nationalisms. The fundamental
transformations in Europe subsequent to the revolutions of 1989 had
a profound impact on social work in terms of raising sharply the
profession's relationship with politics. The exchanges between
western schools of social work and the emergent academic partner
institutions in former Communist countries formed a valuable
testing ground for the essential principles and competences of
social work in terms of their universal scientific basis on the one
hand and their regard for cultural and national values and contexts
on the other. The chapters in this contributed volume focus on
lessons derived from fundamental social and political
transformations, highlighted by East-West encounters and
intra-national divisions, and thereby have important messages for
mastering impending transformations in the light of the global
COVID-19 health crisis. They demonstrate how cultural and social
divisions can be addressed constructively with direct implications
for training and practice in dramatically changing contexts:
Lithuanian social work's claim to professional autonomy vs.
authoritarianism in popular and political culture Social work
between civil society and the state - lessons for and from Hungary
in a European context When Europe's East, West, North and South
meet: learning from cross-country collaboration in creating an
international social work master programme Nordic-Baltic
cooperation in social work researcher education: A Finnish
perspective on the impact on scientific, historical and linguistic
similarities and differences Intra-national similarities and
differences in social work and their significance for developing
European dimensions of research and education Social work,
political conflict and European society: reflections from Northern
Ireland European Social Work After 1989: East-West Exchanges
Between Universal Principles and Cultural Sensitivity is an
invaluable resource for social work educators; social work
practitioners confronted with national and international divisions;
students of social work, of social administration and policy; and
any policy researcher with a comparative focus.
This volume gives an account of the fundamental developments
transforming social work in Europe at the beginning of the 21st
century. A European standard of social work has already emerged,
but models for future European social work are absent. Therefore,
the compendium gives an overview of the current transformation
process for the first time, discussing the visible and invisible
changes and mapping out where social work is positioned in the
emerging post-welfare states. Contents include: A General
Introduction: Transforming Perspectives. Social Work in Europe and
European Social Work * Analytical Perspectives: Social Work in
Europe and European Social Work in Post-Welfarist Contexts *
Professional Perspectives: Main Approaches of Social Work in Europe
and European Social Work * Positions: New Theoretical and
Methodological Discourses of Social Work in Europe and European
Social Work * Future Perspectives of Social Work in Europe and
European Social Work * Social Work's Contribution to a Social
Europe. [Subject: Social Work, European Studies]
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Operations Research Proceedings 1997 - Selected Papers of the Symposium on Operations Research (SOR'97) Jena, September 3-5, 1997 (German, English, Paperback, 1998 ed.)
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This volume contains the proceedings of the 1997 International
Symposium on Operations Research (SOR' 97) held at the
Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Sep tember 3-5, 1997. The
symposium was organized under the auspices of the two German
societies on Operations Research, namely the Deutsche Gesellschajt
fur Operations Research (DGOR) and the Gesellschajt fur Mathematik,
Okonomie und Operations Research (GMOOR). During their annual
business meetings, the DGOR and GMOOR members unanimously decided
that their societies should be assimi lated by the newly founded
Gesellschajt fur Operations Research (GOR). The SOR' 97 meeting was
attended by 521 participants from 31 countries. The presentation of
360 papers was organized in 16 sections, each of which also saw
semiplenary lectures by prominent invited speakers. Plenary
lectures by J.K. Lenstra and P. Mertens as well as a panel
discussion on the role of new communication media represented major
academic events of the symposium. 131 papers were submitted for
publication in the present volume. The space limitation and the
advice of the section chairpersons only allowed for the inclusion
of 85 contributed papers in the proceedings. Additionally, written
versions of seven semiplenary lectures could be included in the
volume. The abstracts of all 360 papers presented at the symposium
can be obtained in electronic form from the WWW at http:
//www.wiwLuni-jena.de/sor97.html."
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