Internationalizing Social Work Education: Insights From Leading Figures Across the Globe
Gurid Aga Askeland, "Internationalizing Social Work Education: Insights From Leading Figures Across the Globe"
English | ISBN: 1447328701 | 2017 | 224 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1447328701 | 2017 | 224 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Social work education has developed internationally over the past 50 years as part of wider processes of economic and cultural globalization. Diverse political and social events across the world have shaped social work and its education, leading to aims and methods that are shared and contested.
This book brings together, through 13 interviews and biographies, the lives, experiences and contributions of leading social work educators from Comoros, the Caribbean, India, Mexico, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom. Their receipt of IASSW’s Katherine Kendall Award recognized that they were at the forefront of establishing and securing social work education during this period of internationalization.
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