This book serves as a compact resource for social work teaching at a time when new ways to understand the world and the people who live in it are continuously needed for social work professionals to be able to fulfill the task of social work. This task is to promote social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people.

The scope of the book offers new thinking and understandings that stem from cutting-edge social work research and social work practice across the globe and the ever-changing world that is continuously changing. Individuals and professionals are increasingly aware of different lifestyles and the ways that people are marginalized and excluded. There is need for social work educators to update their materials, teaching methods, and their own thinking in order to be continuously reflexive. Ideas and practices also travel quickly worldwide, and they are being domesticated or renewed and adapted to local contexts.

This book is timely by bringing new global insights for social work practitioners, educators, and scholars with contributions from authors in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. It also challenges the earlier perceptions of social work, marginalization as well as social work education. Key social work education topics covered among the volume's 10 chapters include:

• Sustainability
• Western notions of social work and Indigenous knowledge
• Gerontology
• Self-care
• Service learning
• Interracial team teaching

Contemporary Issues in Social Work Education is essential reading for social work educators and researchers. The compact volume also can be used as an example in pedagogical studies.

About the Author

Minna Zechner is Associate Professor of Social and Health Care Services within the discipline of Social Work at the University of Helsinki in Finland. She is a member of the board of International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and chairs the IASSW Research Committee. With colleagues, she edited a Routledge book (2023), titled Distance, equity and older people's experiences in the Nordic periphery. She also co-authored (2022) a Policy Press Shorts book. The Politics of Ailment: A new approach to care which developed care theory. She is Acting Editor at the International Journal of Care and Caring. Her research focuses on older adults, especially on those needing care, as well as those facing financial and other challenges in life. Comparative research is of special interest to her, in addition to the rich variety of life in old age.

Book Information
ISBN 9783032030382
Author Minna Zechner
Format Paperback
Page Count 132
Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG