The global social work definition: Ontology, implications and challenges

Ornellas, Abigail; Spolander, Gary; Engelbrecht, Lambert K.

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“…The teachers are claiming that the teaching needs to go beyond the students' applied requests for skills and abilities for encounters with individuals and groups and instead analyze the complexity of social problems related to ethnicity. The education must, therefore, facilitate knowledge and capacities to develop perspectives that include anti-racism, antidiscrimination, and human rights in the frame of social work practice, without being oblivious to the theoretical and methodological demands of the social sciences in general (Ornellas, Engelbrecht, & Spolander, 2018).…”

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Teaching ethnicity in social work education: teachers’ experiences in Sweden

Lill

Helene

2018

Social Work Education

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The shifting demographics that come with migration and globalization have changed the settings for social work education in Sweden. To promote sustainability in a diverse society, strategies for inclusion and equality are essential in the development of core competencies in social work. One essential question is how social work education has responded to the demographic changes. The study aims to contribute with knowledge about how ethnicity is conceptualized in Sweden and to describe the impact the subject has on teaching forms and strategies. More specifically, the study investigates university teachers' expressions of their teaching practices about the concept and addresses the faculty members' narratives about the teaching situations. The study concludes that the lack of a coherent academic context for teaching ethnicity leads to the development of individual approaches by the teachers and a personalization of the issue of ethnicity in social work education. This creates a limitation on how structural elements come into play in relation to ethnicity, and in turn, leads to a shortage of a critical analysis of the construction of social problems where ethnicity plays a fundamental role. These circumstances precede theoretical perspectives on social problems related to ethnicity, migration, transnational relations, globalization, and racism.

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Teaching ethnicity in social work education: teachers’ experiences in Sweden

Lill

Helene

2018

Social Work Education

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“…This definition was agreed upon through numerous in-depth consultations with representatives from over 110 countries. In examining this definition, Ornellas, Spolander and Engelbrecht (2018) identified three critical shifts from the previous definition along with its broader commentary and analysis, which had been standing since 2012. These shifts included:…”

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“…However, the Covid-19 pandemic is teaching the world that most social work service users in the world do not have any choices at all as the coping with the pandemic is purely a matter of basic survival. Ornellas et al (2018) indicate that such an approach in social work can create an "us and them" narrative; Harris (2014) refers to this as an input-output social worker service-user relationship. Froggett (2002) expresses concerns, echoed by Spolander (2019), that such a shift in the working relationship between the social worker and the service user can create an expectation that service users can exercise rational discretion on their own behalf when engaging with social welfare services.…”

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“…The profession has long been conflicted in addressing these two opposing discourses, with community work and social change on the one end, and therapeutic individual and family-based intervention on the other (Staniforth, Fouché & O'Brien, 2011). The profession's overemphasis on individualism and selfreliance was in fact offered as one of the critiques of the previous 2012 international definition of the profession, while the reviewed 2014 global definition placed more emphasis on collective and structural-orientated approaches (Ornellas et al, 2018). However, in practice, there is evidence that the concept of individualism remains deeply ingrained in social work intervention activities and approaches.…”

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The Fourfold Neoliberal Impact on Social Work and Why This Matters in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Ornellas

Engelbrecht

ATAMTÜRK

2020

SWORK

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While social welfare policy forms a cornerstone of the social work profession, economic policy and its interactions often remain distant and of academic interest only. In this paper the authors argue that understanding how economic policy is impacting upon the profession is important for its day-today practice. This has become ever more apparent in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has affirmed social work as an essential service. In particular, the authors argue that the global impact of neoliberal economics on the day-today practices of social workers is fourfold in terms of the marketisation, consumerisation, managerialisation and deprofessionalisation of social work.

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“…Social services are a variety of public services provided by the government, private, profit and non-profit organisations [3,18]. They aim at creating more effective organisations, build stronger communities and promote equality and opportunity [12].…”

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The Contributions of Community Radios in Fostering Social Services in Tanzania: An Evaluation of <i>“Maendeleo vijijini”</i> Program by Radio SAUT FM in Misungwi District

Charles¹,

Manenosabini²

2019

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Being one among the peripheral countries in the world, the provision and access of social services in the rural areas in Tanzania is still one of the major stumbling blocks facing the country. Access to clean water and health services in the rural Tanzania areas are one of the major challenges facing residents in those areas. Likewise, about 85% of the roads in the rural Tanzania areas are either rough roads or mad roads. In Misungwi, access to clean drinking water and the provision of health services are still problematic. The roads are also very poor to allow a free movement of people and goods. The focus of this study was to evaluate the contributions made by community radio stations in fostering the improvements of social services in Tanzania. Specifically, the study evaluated the maendeleo vijijini program aired by radio SAUT FM and its contributions in the improvement of roads, safe drinking water, and health services in Misungwi rural area. This was a qualitative research whereby the data collection method used was interviews. A purposive sampling technique was used to select respondents for this study whereby a total of 33 respondents were interviewed. They included; three (3) head of units from Misungwi district, 20 members of the development committee, and 10 local leaders. The finding show that community radios through maendeleo vijijini program had played significant contribution towards the promotion and improvements of social services in the rural areas of Misungwi district. Nearly over 60% of the interviewees confirmed that the program had played grate contributions in promoting and education residences and government officials about the importance of good roads, safe drinking water, and improved health services. In conclusion, these findings have confirmed that community radios have not played any noticeable contributions in Tanzania. The findings also suggest that running a community radio in Tanzania need to be well prepared in terms of financial and human capital. Because of untrained staff to run the program and financial shortages, community radios will continue suffering because of poor coverage, frequent power cut-offs, poor program preparations, just a few to mention.

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The global social work definition: Ontology, implications and challenges

Cited by 50 publications

References 41 publications

Teaching ethnicity in social work education: teachers’ experiences in Sweden

Teaching ethnicity in social work education: teachers’ experiences in Sweden

The Fourfold Neoliberal Impact on Social Work and Why This Matters in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond

The Contributions of Community Radios in Fostering Social Services in Tanzania: An Evaluation of <i>“Maendeleo vijijini”</i> Program by Radio SAUT FM in Misungwi District

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The global social work definition: Ontology, implications and challenges

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Teaching ethnicity in social work education: teachers’ experiences in Sweden

Teaching ethnicity in social work education: teachers’ experiences in Sweden

The Fourfold Neoliberal Impact on Social Work and Why This Matters in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond

The Contributions of Community Radios in Fostering Social Services in Tanzania: An Evaluation of &lt;i&gt;“Maendeleo vijijini”&lt;/i&gt; Program by Radio SAUT FM in Misungwi District

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The Contributions of Community Radios in Fostering Social Services in Tanzania: An Evaluation of <i>“Maendeleo vijijini”</i> Program by Radio SAUT FM in Misungwi District