What is international social work?
~Ans~ International professional action and the capacity for international action by
the social work profession and its members.
What is global social work? What is the IFSW/IASSW definition of social work
~Ans~ Social work is a practice-based profession and ...
What is international social work?
~Ans~ International professional action and the capacity for international action by
the social work profession and its members.
What is global social work? What is the IFSW/IASSW definition of social work
~Ans~ Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that
promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment
and liberation of people- social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and
respect for diversities
"Principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for
diversities are central to social work. ."
Core mandates of social work
~Ans~ Promoting social change
Social Development
Social Cohesion
Empowerment and Liberation of People
U.S. definitions of social work with global definitions
~Ans~ More emphasis on:
Human rights
Liberation
Social inclusion
Social work profession is to enhance human wellbeing and help meet the basic
human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment
of people
Imperialism
~Ans~ Concerned with "trends within social work promoting the dominance of
Western world-views"
Especially a concern in post-colonial contexts
What is culture? How stable is it?
~Ans~ character and traditions of a certain group past on from generations
dynamic, unstable- make up a lifestyle
contextualizing- stepping out of our Westeren ways
have humility
The emergence of social work in Europe and the U.S. and overlap between the two
~Ans~ Indigenous response to conditions of the late 19th century
, Two social movements: Charity Organization Societies and the settlement house
establishments
-Each developed as a response to the social ills of the times but differed in
philosophies
-Both began in London
-Charity Organization Societies in 1869
-The First Settlement House (Toynbee Hall) in 1884
-Within less than a decade both were transplanted in the United States (1889
Chicago)
-The first COS (started in Buffalo in 1877) and was followed by the rapid growth in
other cities.
- COS workers emphasized the needy individual and the combination of "scientific"
record-keeping and friendly visiting.
-They were the forerunners of social caseworkers
The development of social work education & Issues with professional identity and
recognition
~Ans~ 1899- the first school of social work was begun in Amsterdam (The Institute
for Social Work Training)
-2 year course aimed "at the methodical, theoretical and practical training of those
who wish to dedicate themselves to certain important tasks in the field of social work"
-5 fields of study; welfare of the poor, housing management, "Toynbee work"
(settlement housing work), child care for orphans and deserted children, and social
work in factories and workshops.
1915- Abraham Flexner dismayed his audience at the US National Conference of
Charities and Correction by stating that social work was not a profession because it
did not have a body of educationally transmissible techniques and because the
boundaries of social work were too broad.
1917- Mary Richmond's Social Diagnosis was an answer to Flexner and gave social
work a communicable technique.
Other schools or training were opened/held heavily in the late 1800's
1873- England
1895- Chicago
1898- New York
1925- Poland
1925- Chile (First in a Latin American country)
Issues with professional identity and recognition
-See Abraham Flexner and validity above ^^
-Gender Issues
-Gender bias because it is still considered a profession for women.
- As late of 1937, 83 of 179 schools of social work in the world were for women only
and just 9 were reserved for men.
-Most pioneers of the profession were women.
-Links with Pacifism
-Links with the early women's movement also led to international collaborations on
behalf of peace.
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