Revitalizing social work education through global and critical awareness : Examples from three Scandinavian schools of social work

• Increasing globalisation, reorganisation of the Scandinavian welfare regimes and the awareness of increasing global roots of local social problems necessitated change in the curriculum of social work in three Scandinavian schools of social work in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Recent global transformations, increasing global inequalities, increasing forced migration and the emergence of glocal social problems make the traditional education and methods of social work ineffective and in some cases harmful for people in need of social work intervention. This article examines the need to provide critical, global and multilevel perspectives in social work education in order to prepare social work students for the increasing social problems with global roots. The article, which is based on cross-national collaborations in social work education between three Scandinavian countries, addresses global and critical components in theoretical courses, professional training and field practice in the social work education of the countries in question. It is argued that social work education should move beyond the old division of classical and international/intercultural toward including global and critical perspectives in an integrative manner in all programs.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)

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Critical consciousness

glocal social problems

intersectionalism

Scandinavian welfare state

social work curriculum

kritisk bevissthet

glokale sosiale problem

interseksjonalitet

Skandinaviske velferdsstater

sosialarbeiderutdanning

kritiskt medvetande

glokala sociala problem

intersektionalitet

Skandinaviska valfardsstater

socialarbetarutbildning

kritisk bevidsthed

sociale problemer i et "glocal' perspektiv

intersektionistiske perspektiver

skandinavisk velfaerdsstat

socialradgiveruddannelse

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