1st Edition
Global Social Transformation and Social Action: The Role of Social Workers Social Work-Social Development Volume III
By Sven Hessle
Copyright 2014
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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Global social transformation calls for global social action. 2010 saw the launch of The Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development, which detailed how social workers can strive to bring about increased social justice. The time is right to start to address and demonstrate the actions that might be required to develop and accomplish the Agenda - with regard to methods in practice and... Read more
List of Figures and Tables, Notes on Contributors, 1. Introduction, 2. We Meet as Brothers and Sisters – Human Solidarity in Global Relationships, 3. Desirable Social Policy Consequences of the Arab Spring, 4. Social Media and the Arab Spring: “Tunisnews” as a Model, 5. Fighting Poverty and Social Protection, 6. Social Work in Contexts of Political and Military Conflicts, 7. Migration: Challenges and Possibilities, 8. Families in Transition, 9. Social Media and its Impact on Social Development, 10. Transforming Organisations and Creative Practice, 11. Recognising the Face of the Other: Difference, Identity and Community, Appendix: The Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development, Index
Biography
Sven Hessle is Professor of Social Work at Stockholm University in Sweden and Editor in Chief of The International Journal of Social Welfare.
'These three volumes [see also Human Rights and Social Equality: Challenges for Social Work and Environmental Change and Sustainable Social Development] have the intention of covering the ’most important social aspects of social work and development in the world today’, a writes Sven Hessle, Professor of Social Work at Stockholm University, in the introduction to the volumes. ... The many contributions of three volumes, albeit very diverse in form as well as in substance, provide food for thought about the global agenda.' European Journal of Social Work
