Irony and Social Work: In Search of the Happy Sisyphus

Roose, Rudi; Roets, Griet; Bie, Maria Bouverne‐De

doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcr163

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“…Nevertheless, in the course of representing the research findings as a multiplicity of interpretable issues to different audiences, we started to embrace this ambiguity as an opportunity (see Roose et al, 2012). From a lifeworld orientation perspective, the researcher questions the obviousness of institutional problem constructions through which people learn to accept social injustice, by which the 'unquestioned' becomes 'questionable' (Schuyt, 1972).…”

Section: Strategies Of Data Analysis: Interpretation and Representatimentioning

confidence: 99%

Researching child poverty: Towards a lifeworld orientation

2013

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Childhood research with children in poverty involves a diversity of dilemmas and complexities. In the context of a recent research project in Belgium, the authors attempt to embrace child poverty as a normative issue created a crisis of representation. In order to untangle this, they situate different methodological approaches in relation to the constructed epistemological windows on child poverty. The authors differentiate between research in which the authentic voice of children in poverty is represented, and research in which their lifeworld is interpreted through a lifeworld orientation perspective that pursues human dignity and social justice in our societies.

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Section: Strategies Of Data Analysis: Interpretation and Representatimentioning

confidence: 99%

Researching child poverty: Towards a lifeworld orientation

2013

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“…In that way, social work has mainly developed as a 'sedimentary practice': a practice that has lost its initial political orientation and is accepted as selfevident (Mouffe, 2005). As such, social work has become not only a constitutive practice to existing society, but also a self-referential practice (Harris, 2008;Roose, Roets & Bouverne-De Bie, 2011). The development of social work as a sedimentary practice runs parallel to an increasing methodisation of social work's inherent pedagogical dimension.…”

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confidence: 99%

Learning Democracy in Social Work

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Roose

Coussée

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Civic Learning, Democratic Citizenship and the Public Sphere

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“…It was the lack of willingness to regulate the care and welfare of children in Church or State authorities or awareness of the need for it that created conditions for abuse to be systematic and widespread (Holohan, 2011). While regulation and accountability processes can be challenging in the present, to lament for a period in the past where lack of regulation enabled unacceptable levels of abuse and neglect of vulnerable children especially in care is myopic (Roose, Roets, & Bouverne-De Bie, 2013). Our histories scream the message that accountability and processes of regulation should not be feared or resisted in the present although the processes of their implementation should be critically monitored.…”

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Why is history important at moments of transition? The case of ‘transformation’ of Irish child welfare via the new Child and Family Agency

McGregor

2014

European Journal of Social Work

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This paper provides a critical commentary on researching social work in transition to make the case for why history is important at crucial moments of change. The present transition of child protection and welfare practice from a Health Services Executive Structure to an Independent Child and Family Agency (Tusla) is focused on for illustration. This development signifies a major transition of services within the country influenced by a number of factors, most notably a number of high profile cases of child abuse within institutions in the past and child deaths/neglect cases in the present. In particular, a discourse of prevention, early intervention and the promotion of children's rights are most dominant in light of a quest to purge the mistakes of the past. Supported by a history of the present approach, the author argues that while the existence of a 'discursive shift' typified by the establishment of an independent agency is arguably conclusive, the evidence of changes in practice, culture and underpinning analytical approaches is much more vague and complex. The paper concludes with reflections on implications for a wider European and global context and a call for the need for more critically informed approaches to history to inform present transformations.

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Irony and Social Work: In Search of the Happy Sisyphus

Cited by 47 publications

References 26 publications

Researching child poverty: Towards a lifeworld orientation

Researching child poverty: Towards a lifeworld orientation

Learning Democracy in Social Work

Why is history important at moments of transition? The case of ‘transformation’ of Irish child welfare via the new Child and Family Agency

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