{"product_id":"9783030458133","title":"European Social Work Education and Practice: East-West Exchanges Between Universal Principles and Cultural Sensitivity","description":"\u003ch1\u003eEuropean Social Work Education and Practice: East-West Exchanges Between Universal Principles and Cultural Sensitivity\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eLorenz, Walter; Havrdová, Zuzana; Matoušek, Oldřich\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a unique analysis of the learning derived from East-West contacts in social work and reflects on the discipline's inalienable trans-national dimensions, of high actuality in the face of the re-emergence of nationalisms. The fundamental transformations in Europe subsequent to the revolutions of 1989 had a profound impact on social work in terms of raising sharply the profession’s relationship with politics. The exchanges between western schools of social work and the emergent academic partner institutions in former Communist countries formed a valuable testing ground for the essential principles and competences of social work in terms of their universal scientific basis on the one hand and their regard for cultural and national values and contexts on the other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chapters in this contributed volume focus on lessons derived from fundamental social and political transformations, highlighted by East-West encounters and intra-national divisions, and thereby have important messages for mastering impending transformations in the light of the global COVID-19 health crisis. They demonstrate how cultural and social divisions can be addressed constructively with direct implications for training and practice in dramatically changing contexts:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLithuanian      social work’s claim to professional autonomy vs. authoritarianism in      popular and political culture \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSocial      work between civil society and the state – lessons for and from Hungary in      a European context\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen      Europe’s East, West, North and South meet: learning from cross-country      collaboration in creating an international social work master programme\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNordic-Baltic      cooperation in social work researcher education: A Finnish perspective on      the impact on scientific, historical and linguistic similarities and      differences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntra-national      similarities and differences in social work and theirsignificance for      developing European dimensions of research and education\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSocial      work, political conflict and European society: reflections from Northern      Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEuropean Social Work After 1989: East-West Exchanges Between Universal Principles and Cultural Sensitivity \u003c\/i\u003eis an invaluable resource for social work educators; social work practitioners confronted with national and international divisions; students of social work, of social administration and policy; and any policy researcher with a comparative focus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2021-09-02\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030458133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-45811-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 211\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45589544534156,"sku":"9783030458133","price":58.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030458133.jpg?v=1776036861","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030458133","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}