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Towards a relational transgression of the tensions between social work and social policy?

backyardJesper Stage Petersen and Niels Rosendal Jensen, Aarhus/Helsinge (Denmark)
Our contribution aims at exploring possible ways out of what seems to be a dichotomy-trap for the professions of social pedagogy/social work. The intention is to present a number of arguments to overcome the dichotomy between “economisation of the social” (management) and “the social per se” (the values and hard core of social pedagogy/social work). (more…)

Between paternalism and indifference

copenhagenNiels Rosendahl Jensen, Copenhagen (Denmark)

The approach of this article may be resumed in a statement: I have learned to be afraid of people who want to be good to other humans, and especially of people who know how other humans get happy. (more…)

Working with socially endangered children in Danish day-care institutions

childrenKirsten Elisa Petersen, Copenhagen (Denmark)

This article is based on an ongoing PhD-project which examines the teachers’ competences and the pedagogical practice in working with socially endangered children in day-care institutions. (more…)

Denmark – a good life for all?

handicappedNiels Rosendahl Jensen and Ditte Sørensen,Kopenhagen (Denmark)

1. Introduction

Internationally Denmark is known as a welfare society, marked by a high degree of equality in living conditions. The equality is financed by high public taxation giving a basis to welfare services, usually and to a great extent delivered by public institutions. (more…)

Rehabilitation - expensive? worth while? maybe even profitable?

meerjungfrau_kopenhagenkl2.jpgTorben Bo Hansen, Kopenhagen (Denmark)

Based on the empiric experience: If you bring together persons with problems, you add to their problems, the Danish rehabilitation-activity Project Springboard began in the late 1970´s job-training in normal workplaces with intensive social-consultant follow-up from the project of former drug-addicts. (more…)

Quality Reform in Denmark

Niels Rosendal Jensen, Kopenhagen (Denmark)

The Danish Government has pointed out a commission of ministers on the theme “quality of the public sector“. The commission is going to develop and publish a strategy for securing the quality of the public sector in the future. (more…)

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