The Challenge of Existential Social Work Practice

Educational administration's paradises lost

“…There are many aspects of the field that have been pursued that have held the promise of improving the social institutions and lives of individuals to make better societies. However, currently in a period of threatening populism (e.g., Gessen, 2020;Post, 2019), increasing literature on existential threats and challenges in various disciplines (e.g., Dion, 2014;Foer, 2018;Griffiths, 2017;Segal & Jankelson, 2016), it is not difficult to see that there are many lost futures. In order to determine what futures are dissolving, one has to take a broad societal and international view -the shaping of social institutions within which educational organisations and practices are embedded is subject to socio-historical and psychological forces.…”