1st Edition
Revitalising Critical Reflection in Contemporary Social Work Research, Practice and Education
Globally, social work faces increasingly complex cultural, political, economic, legal, organisational, technological and professional conditions.
Critically reflecting on the subject, this book heightens critical consciousness among social work researchers, educators, practitioners and students about the structural dimensions of social problems and human suffering; it highlights the inter-relationship between agency and structure and discusses strategies to challenge and change both individual and societal consciousness.
Offering the reader an opportunity to gain in-depth understanding of how critical reflection is possible in contemporary social work research, practice and education, it will be required reading for all social work scholars, students and professionals.
Preface
Christian Franklin Svensson and Pia Ringø
Chapter 1 - Critical Reflection: Concepts and forms of knowledge in a global world
Pia Ringø and Christian Franklin Svensson
Chapter 2 - The sociology of knowledge: Ideology, critical reflection and the consequences of capitalism to social work
Maria Appel Nissen
Chapter 3 - Critique in social work research: Arguments for a synthesis between critical realism and German critical theory
Søren Rudbæk Juul and Pia Ringø
Chapter 4 - Critical reflections on international social work research: Beyond South/North divides
Jessica Jönsson, Aina Lian Flem and Sofie Ghazanfareeon Karlsson
Chapter 5 - Healing past wounds or addressing the future? Critical social work in post-war settings
Mette Lind Kusk and Rasmus Sommer Hansen
Chapter 6 - Experiences of ethnic discrimination: potentials for social change in Taiwan
Pei-Chi Ho and Christian Franklin Svensson
Chapter 7 - The Use of Reflective Processes and Teams in the Practice of Supervision: A critical glance
Wong Peace Yuh Ju and Kieran O’Donoghue
Chapter 8 - Mature Law in the Nordic countries: Critical perspectives on social work in the context of public authority
Peter Vangsgaard
Chapter 9 - From experimentalism to governance tool: Local community work caught between emancipative goals and the sanctioning state
Mia Arp Fallov
Chapter 10 - Learning from user perspectives: Critical reflections in the frontline of employment oriented social work
Maja Lundemark Andersen
Chapter 11 - Applying a salutogenic and interactional approach to critically reflect on perspectives on disability in social work
Heidi Pedersen, Janne Liaaen and Tonje Cecilie Indrøy
Chapter 12 - Integration is a two-way process: Policy and social intervention among migrants
Lydia Nheta and Christian Franklin Svensson
Chapter 13 - Knowing risk: Why we need an empirical quantitative critique in social work and research
Merete Monrad and Morten Ejrnæs
Chapter 14 - Decision making and risk in social work: Critical reflections on digital technologies
Lene Mosegaard Søbjerg and Brian J. Taylor
Chapter 15 - Revitalising the concept of surface and depth: An analytical tool for critical reflection
Pia Ringø and David Howe
Chapter 16 - The promise of social change: Critical reflections on social innovation
Christian Franklin Svensson and Stephen Carney
Biography
Christian Franklin Svensson is a Ph.D. in anthropology and social innovation. Using ethnographic approaches and policy analysis, he has a focus on issues of welfare, civil society, social change, migration, inclusion, cross-sectoral cooperation and community. From several years of teaching and supervision, Svensson is firmly rooted in quality assurance and curriculum development in international programmes. He has been peer-reviewer for a number of journals including The Danish Anthropological Association, South Asia Research Journal, South Asian Development, Social Work and Society, The Inclusion Journal and VOLUNTAS. Svensson is an appointed external expert with the European Union Institutions; a UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab expert; and an associate member of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge.
Pia Ringø is Ph.D. in sociology and social work. She is associate professor of social work at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. She is the research manager of the research group SOSA addressing the specialised social work in the field of psychiatry and disability research. Pia Ringø has methodological competencies in method, theory and concept development within the social sciences and social work. Her scientific focus is on theory of science, realism, integrated analytical models and development of scientific models as ways to analyse the interaction between politics, management, knowledge and practice.
