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…)
Ruth Lister, Loughborough (UK)
A few years ago researchers described the UK as ‘contender for the title of worst place in Europe to be a child’ and by extension young person (Micklewright and Stewart, 2000: 23). Last year, in the UNICEF assessment of the well-being of children and adolescents, the UK was ranked worst overall and, with the US, was in the bottom third of the rankings for 5 of the 6 dimensions reviewed (UNICEF, 2007). (more…)
Torben 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…)
Greg Marston, St. Lucia (Australia)
Social problems and social issues are taking a political back seat at the start of 2007 as the Australian Government and the Australia media focus their attention on the ‘water crisis’ affecting the cities and rural areas. (more…)
Lesley Cooper and Richard Freeland, Kitchener/Ontario (Canada)
The personal is political. This statement is an activist imperative, used by 1970s feminists to explain the influence of race, class and gender on the exclusion of women from decision making. Prior to this, from a completely different perspective, Mills (1959) made the observation that private pains are the manifestations of public issues. (more…)
Ulrike Wisser, Brussels (Belgium)
Having decided to put a more human face to the European Union’s core objective – the single market – the European Commission recently updated its agenda. The European Commission dedicated its term’s work programme to prosperity, solidarity and security, with the continued focus on jobs and growth. (more…)
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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