Europeanising the Social Professions - Networking in practice and education

Günter J Friesenhahn / Friedrich W. Seibel / Anette Kniephoff-Knebel

In both science as well as in practice a newly raised awareness for the significance of European dimensions of social work has been detected since the mid eighties triggered by strategic considerations and initiatives of the European Union, that intended to liaise people in Europe more intensively on a personal and professional level by offering special programmes. International networks, cross-border projects and the development of international education perspectives have been growing since. (more…)

Like a fish without a bicycle? We need a science of social work! – Report from an invitational conference on the subject of “Shaping a Science of Social Work” at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) in May 2011

  Hans-Jürgen Göppner, Eichstätt (Germany)

It is incontestable worldwide that social work needs a „science base“. (more…)

TISSA 2011: Politics of Identity – The Changing Face of Social Work

Social work is challenged by the social, structural and economic ruptures in the rapidly changing European societies. This raises inevitably the question of its professional identity. (more…)

The Morals of Responsibility, Social Justice and Social Security of the Person

Tatiana Shipunova, St. Peterburg (Russia)

The main values of a society in any concrete historical period of its existence are reflected in its morals. These morals can be considered as the recognition by society of the fact that life, well-being and the social security of a person can only be guaranteed if society is united as a whole, and if the whole society unites to observe the values provided. (more…)

The Fight against Poverty and Exclusion – Social Work in Times of Crisis

The European Union has declared 2010 the ‚Year of the Fight against Poverty and Exclusion’. (more…)

Social Work Website in Netherlands

Colleagues from Netherlands have launched an internet website on history and present of social work (more…)

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

Jesper 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…)