
Re-imagining Social Work
Towards Creative Practice
Cambridge University Press
Published on 21. December 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
218 pages
978-1-108-43688-5 (ISBN)
Description
Social workers are increasingly faced with contemporary global challenges such as inequality, climate change and displacement of people. As a field committed to supporting the world's most vulnerable populations and communities, social work must adapt to meet the needs of this changing global landscape. Re-imagining Social Work broadens the imaginative horizons for social workers and acquaints readers with their potential to creatively contribute to global change. Written in an accessible style, this book motivates readers to think outside the box when it comes to linking theory to their social work practice, in order to construct innovative solutions to prominent social problems. Re-imagining Social Work provides a unique perspective on how social work can evolve for the future. Through theory and critical perspective, this book provides the skills required to be an innovative creative social worker.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
352 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-43688-5 (9781108436885)
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Persons
'Jim Ife has been active in social work education since the 1970s. He has been Professor of Social Work at The University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Western Sydney University, and was also Handa Professor of Human Rights Education at Curtin, where he is now Emeritus Professor. His main interests have been community development and human rights, and he has published books in both fields. He has also been active in community engagement, and was President of Amnesty International Australia in the 1990s, as well as Secretary of the Human Rights Commission of the International Federation. of Social Workers. His best-known books are Community Development and Human Rights and Social Work (both in multiple editions with Cambridge University Press). He is now retired.'
Author
Curtin University, Perth
Western Sydney University
Western Sydney University
Content
1. Setting the Scene; 2. Centering the human: the importance of humanities; 3. Decentering the Human: Social Work in the Anthropocene; 4. Epistemologies of the South and Indigenous Epistemologies; 5. Decolonising social work; 6. Beyond (Social) Science: Artistic Social Work and Creativity; 7. Social Work and the Sacred; 8. Technology; 9. Social work, resistance and alternatives.