1st Edition

Radical Challenges for Social Work Education

Edited By Jane Fenton Copyright 2022
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

This book is full of ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago. Radical social work is an approach to social work that has, at its heart, the departure from solely behavioural, moral or psychological understanding of service users’ problems. Social work had originally been... Read more

1. Introduction 
Jane Fenton 
2. Trapped in discourse? Obstacles to meaningful social work education, research, and practice within the neoliberal university 
Malcolm Carey 
3. Theoretical frameworks in social work education: a scoping review 
Dianne Cox, Helen Cleak, Alex Bhathal and Lisa Brophy 
4. Resisting neoliberalism in social work education: learning, teaching, and performing human rights and social justice in England and Spain 
María Inés Martínez Herrero and Helen Charnley 
5. Promoting youth-directed social change: engaging transformational critical practice 
Fran Gale and Michel Edenborough 
6. Educating for critical social work practice in mental health 
Christine Morley and Kate Stenhouse 
7. Strengthened by challenges: the path of the social work education in Ethiopia 
Ashenafi Hagos Baynesagn, Tasse Abye, Emebet Mulugeta and Zena Berhanu 
8. Using creative modalities to resist discourses of individualization and blame in social work education 
Patrick O’Keeffe and Elinor Assoulin 
9. Resident participation as learning and action – a participatory action learning project in social work education 
Håvard Aaslund and Katrine Mauseth Woll 
10. Transforming social work’s potential in the field: a radical framework 
Sarah Ross Bussey, Alexis Jemal and Sherika Caliste 

Biography

Jane Fenton is Reader in Social Work at the University of Dundee, UK. She practised as a criminal justice social worker in Scotland for approximately 11 years before moving to the university in 2006. Her research and scholarship interests are in the newer generations of social work students; the effects of neoliberalism generationally and on practice; free expression and debate in the social work classroom; radical social work; and promoting attention to poverty and inequality by reclaiming liberal values for social work education. She has authored numerous journal articles, chapters, and two books: Values in Social Work and Social Work for Lazy Radicals.