• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Transformative Social Work: Practices for Academic Settings

Transformative Social Work: Practices for Academic Settings

Hardcover

General SociologyPoverty & Social WorkTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 023120700X
ISBN13: 9780231207003
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Feb 27 2024
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.59
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Transformative approaches to social work have been popular for some time. Most discussions of this perspective, however, focus on actual practice with clients or service users, not educational contexts. In addition, there is often a lack of clarity about what transformative really means, both in theory and in practice.

This book brings together a range of contributors to reconsider transformative social work, focusing on concrete examples in academic settings both inside and outside the classroom. They illustrate theories and practices of transformative social work in the academy in detail from different standpoints. Chapters by scholars at all career stages, students, staff, and managers consider all aspects of academic work--teaching and learning, research, and administration--as well as labor that academics perform outside the university. Authors describe their understanding of a transformative perspective as well as the practices that flow from this conception, providing rich detail on how a transformative approach can be implemented.

This book stands out for the breadth of its focus, its international contributions, and its openness about the new challenges involved in doing transformative work today. It develops an expansive and systematic understanding of what transformative can mean across the entire academic and professional context of social work education.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Teaching Instruction