商品描述
This book provides examples of how social workers have pushed back against neoliberalism, attempts to co-opt or silence social workers, and reproduce philosophical and ethical assumptions that divide humans from each other and from the natural world. This is the second book of a two-volume set that focuses on how authors have pushed boundaries in a particular field of practice, research or policy in social work. The books are culturally, gender-, and geographically inclusive, with contributors from every inhabited continent. It is future-focused, hopeful, and inspiring: it focuses on solutions rather than merely elaborating problems. The book includes chapters from a continuum of experienced practitioners and early career researchers; this provides a nuanced and accessible view of boundaries from both ends of the career path. The global definition of social work says that the discipline 'promotes social change and development, social cohesion and the empowerment and liberation of people' but in many nations where social work exists, social workers are expected to act as agents of social control, ensuring that people--particularly 'the poor'--conform to established political and social norms. Most often social workers are initially attracted to the discipline because they want to empower and liberate vulnerabilised and marginalised people and communities. In order to accomplish these high-minded goals, social workers must occasionally push boundaries that confine their practice. This volume contains eight chapters from social workers who are challenging policy and the way social work is practiced in their national settings. Authors in this book interrogate the notion of national boundaries and contemporary populist self-interest. Not only are political boundaries considered, but the boundaries between humans and their natural environments are reconsidered. The book concludes by setting out key decisions that the global social work discipline must make in order to create its future, and identifies key markers on the path to that future. Pushing Boundaries in Social Work Around the World, Vol. 2: Policy and Global Perspectives invites social workers to reconsider their assumptions about policy practice and boundaries themselves. It encourages them to rediscover the spark that originally drew them to their work.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書提供了社會工作者如何反對新自由主義、抵制試圖共謀或沉默社會工作者的行為，以及重複將人類與彼此及自然世界隔離的哲學和倫理假設的範例。本書是兩卷本中的第二本，專注於作者如何在社會工作特定的實踐、研究或政策領域中突破界限。這些書籍在文化、性別和地理上具有包容性，貢獻者來自每個有人居住的洲。它面向未來，充滿希望和啟發：專注於解決方案，而不僅僅是闡述問題。本書包含來自經驗豐富的實踐者和早期職業研究者的章節，提供了從職業生涯兩端對界限的細緻且易於理解的觀點。
全球社會工作的定義指出，該學科「促進社會變革和發展、社會凝聚力以及人們的賦權和解放」，但在許多存在社會工作的國家中，社會工作者被期望作為社會控制的代理人，確保人們——特別是「貧困者」——遵循既定的政治和社會規範。社會工作者最初吸引他們進入這一學科的原因，往往是希望賦權和解放脆弱和邊緣化的人群及社區。為了實現這些崇高的目標，社會工作者必須偶爾突破限制其實踐的界限。
本卷包含八個章節，來自挑戰政策及其國家環境中社會工作實踐的社會工作者。本書的作者質疑國界和當代民粹主義自利的概念。不僅考慮政治邊界，還重新思考人類與其自然環境之間的界限。本書最後提出全球社會工作學科必須做出的關鍵決策，以創造其未來，並確定通往該未來的關鍵標誌。
《全球社會工作中的邊界推進，第二卷：政策與全球視角》邀請社會工作者重新考慮他們對政策實踐和自身界限的假設。它鼓勵他們重新發現最初吸引他們從事這項工作的火花。
作者簡介
Mark Henrickson, MDiv, MSW, PhD is retired Professor of Social Work at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand. He has published extensively on HIV, sexual and cultural diversity, and international social work. His books include The Origins of Social Care and Social Work: Creating a Global Future, Vulnerability and Marginality in Human Services, and the edited books Getting to Zero: Global Social Work Responds to AIDS, and HIV, Sex and Sexuality in Later Life. Darla Spence Coffey, PhD, MSW is a Senior Leadership Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice and a Distinguished Scholar at the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. She served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) from 2012-2022. Her current teaching, writing and research focus on leadership development, interprofessional collaboration, and global social work education.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
馬克·亨里克森（Mark Henrickson），神學碩士（MDiv）、社會工作碩士（MSW）、哲學博士（PhD），是紐西蘭奧塔哥大學（Massey University）退休的社會工作教授。他在HIV、性別與文化多樣性以及國際社會工作方面發表了大量著作。他的著作包括社會照護與社會工作的起源：創造全球未來（The Origins of Social Care and Social Work: Creating a Global Future）、人類服務中的脆弱性與邊緣性（Vulnerability and Marginality in Human Services），以及編輯的書籍達到零：全球社會工作對艾滋病的回應（Getting to Zero: Global Social Work Responds to AIDS）和晚年生活中的HIV、性與性別（HIV, Sex and Sexuality in Later Life）。 達拉·斯賓斯·科菲（Darla Spence Coffey），哲學博士（PhD）、社會工作碩士（MSW），是賓夕法尼亞大學社會政策與實踐學院的高級領導學者，並且是全國跨專業實踐與教育中心的傑出學者。她曾於2012年至2022年擔任社會工作教育委員會（CSWE）的主席及首席執行官。她目前的教學、寫作和研究重點在於領導力發展、跨專業合作以及全球社會工作教育。
