1st Edition
Social Work Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic International Insights toward Innovation and Creativity
Author Bios
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Liat Shklarski and Yael Latzer
1 Review of the International Research Related to Social Work Education During COVID-19
Doreen Ner, Liat Shklarski, and Yael Latzer
SECTION 1
Teaching and Learning
2 Teaching and Learning Social Work During Intersecting Pandemics (USA): Advancing Change Through Critical Dialogue
Peggy O’neill and Ora Nakash
3 Learning While Teaching During a Collective Crisis: Post-Pandemic Possibilities for Social Work Education in Italy
Mara Sanfelici
4 Insights from Selected Theoretical Approaches: Implications for Social Work Teaching and Field Education Following COVID-19
Varda Soskolne, Julia Gouzman, and Rachel Dekel
SECTION 2
Field Education/Social Work Practice
5 Rethinking Social Work Education in Italy in Light of the Pandemic: An Overview and a
Focus on Fieldwork Education
Giovanni Cellini and Marilena Dellavalle
6 Teaching Social Work Practice in Israel During COVID-19: Reflections and Lessons Learned
Orit Nuttman-Shwartz and Yael Shoval-Zuckerman
7 Social Work Graduate Profile in the Context of Education During COVID-19: Self-Reflexive
Gloss from the Czech Environment
Jelena Petrucijová, Mirka Nečasová, and Zdeňka Dohnalová
8 Continuity of Social Work Field Supervision Before and During COVID-19, 2016–2021
Orly Sarid and Vered Dietchman
SECTION 3
Focusing on Supporting Students
9 Social Work Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Faculty of Social Studies,
University of Ostrava, in the Czech Republic: Reflection on Student and Teacher Lived Experiences
Oldřich Chytil, Marie Špiláčková, Iva Tichá, Veronika Mia Racko, Věra Holasová, Karla Pobucká, and Pavlína Rabasová
10 Hybrid Social Work Education in South Africa: A Human-Centered Balance
Antoinette Lombard, Elmien Claassens, and Gerna Wessels
11 The Making of the "New" Social Work Education in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong
Kong Yam, Wai Chi Rodney Chu, and Wing Hong Chui
SECTION 4
Learning While Focusing on Community
12 Social Work Development in Georgia: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nino Shatberashvili and Shorena Sadzaglishvili
13 Shaping the Professional Competence of Social Work Students in the Field of Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Poland
Hubert Kaszyński and Karina Melnyk
14 Sharing Knowledge Advances the Discipline and Profession of Social Work: Open Educational
Resources: A New Paradigm of Cooperation in Education Accelerated by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melanie Germann, Regula Kunz, and Beat Mürner
Biography
Yael Latzer is a Professor and Dean of the School of Social Work in the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel, and the research director of the Eating Disorders Institution in the Psychiatric Division at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel.
Liat Shklarski is an Assistant Professor in the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, New York, USA, and conducts research on innovation in social work education.
