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Internationalizing social work education
Insights from leading figures across the globe
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Social work education has developed internationally over the past 50 years as part of wider processes of economic and cultural globalization. Diverse political and social events across the world have shaped social work and its education, leading to aims and methods that are shared and contested. This...
The Global Enterprise
Social Scientists and Their Work around the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
There are approximately 200 nations on Earth and the social sciences are being practiced in each one, yet too little of this global enterprise is known to Western, particularly American, social scientists. Drawing upon five years of experience as editor-in-chief of a major international encyclopedia...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Since launching in 2003, Transforming Social Work Practice has become the market-leading series for social work students. These books use activities and case studies to build critical thinking and reflection skills and will help social work students to develop good practice through learning.
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Working Across Difference
Social Work, Social Policy and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Social Workers in Australia are increasingly called upon to work across social differences in ways that promote social justice and challenge growing inequity, and anti-oppressive practice has been put at the heart of qualifying programmes. In this exciting new collection, some of Australia’s leading...
Reflective Social Work Practice
Thinking, Doing and Being
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Reflective Social Work Practice demonstrates how social workers can creatively and consciously combine 'thinking, doing and being' when working with individuals, families, groups, communities and organisations, and when undertaking research. It discusses conceptual and theoretical aspects of reflective...
Legal Construct, Social Concept
A Macrosociological Perspective on Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Based on sophisticated demographic analysis, Legal Construct, Social Concept argues that legal doctrine on social issues is shaped by the needs and values of society rather than by individuals and interest groups and that it evolves in response to social change but has little impact on that change....
India Social
HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS LEADING THE CHARGE AND CHANGING THE COUNTRY
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
`As a pioneer in the age when social media has become India?s new political pulpit and argumentative townsquare, Ankit Lal is perfectly poised to chronicle India?s transformational tryst with Twitter and Facebook and whatever comes next.? ? SHEKHAR GUPTA, senior journalist and recipient of the Padma...
Fundraising
How to Raise Money for Your Library Using Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Fundraising: How to Raise Money for Your Library Using Social Media introduces the phenomena that many members, supporters and fundraisers are not using social media to fundraise for their libraries, and may not be aware of its strengths and pitfalls. The book discusses why social media should be...
Social Constructivism as Paradigm?
The Legacy of The Social Construction of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Social constructivism is one of the most prominent theoretical approaches in the social sciences. This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first formulation in Peter Berger and Luckmann’s classic foundational text, The Social Construction of Reality. Addressing the work’s contribution...
Family Social Welfare
Helping Troubled Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Our changing cultural environment and societal attitudes are subtly but unmistakably altering the personality development of the individual and the functioning of the family. The increasing complexity of the emotional and social problems of their clients is requiring social workers to understand and...
by B. A. Dabla
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The Kashmiri society experienced most difficult challenge in modern history due to two-decade long armed conflict between Kashmiri militants and Indian security forces. In actually, it proved devastating for the survival of this tiny society in the global map. In brought catastrophic impact in totality...
Social Transformation In Kashmir
A Study of Emerging Social Characters
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
This Book stands as the academic presentation of sociological narratives of 30 prominent and representative social characters which have emerged in the Kashmir society in post-accession period in the Context of broader and deeper social transformation. It portrays a positive image of the Kashmiri...
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On the Principles of Social Gravity [Revised edition]
How Human Systems Work, From the Family to the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
“On the Principles of Social Gravity” proposes a radical new way of thinking about social systems. It explains that all social systems –institutions created of and for human beings e.g. healthcare system, family, military etc., – are held together or governed by nine principles or rules. Using...
by Julie Adams, Diana Leshone
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Active Social Work with Children with Disabilities provides a comprehensive social worker’s guide to working with children with disabilities, exploring current issues from the perspective of both the social worker and the family. Many people are afraid of working in this field of social work and...