Teaching ‘community engagement’ in engineering education for international development: Integration of an interdisciplinary social work curriculum

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorie J. Gilbert ◽  
Mary Lehman Held ◽  
Janet L. Ellzey ◽  
William T. Bailey ◽  
Laurie B. Young
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
International Development ◽  
Teaching Community

More Than Place-Based: Viewing Geography on a Continuum and the Implications for Social Work Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason T. Carbone ◽  
Stephen Edward McMillin
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
New Method ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Community Membership ◽  
Community Rights ◽  
The Social

Communities play an important role within the field of social work as the context within which specific social work activities occur. To date, much of the social work literature divides communities into the mutually exclusive, dichotomous categories of geographic and functional communities. The authors propose a new method for defining community that views geography on a continuum and suggests that membership within a community is moderated by place. The concept of place-moderated communities is applied to specific examples, and the application to social work practice is discussed within the context of community membership, community engagement, community rights, and community development efforts.

Valuing and transgressing

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-104
Author(s):  
Linda Bell
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
International Development ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Occupational Group ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
International Social Work ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
Published Research ◽  
International Social

This chapter explores social work values. These values, such as promoting social justice, are considered key to this occupational group. Many of the chapter's interviewees seem to share similar values; however, these values sometimes seem to vary culturally and geographically. International social work espouses additional values by placing an emphasis on globalisation and international development. In addition, the chapter is concerned with what happens when social workers fail to live up to their professional standards, and what sanctions may be applied. Here, the chapter draws upon published research as well as data from the author's own studies into recent, publicly available material on social workers' processes of deregistration and other sanctions. The chapter ends with a look ahead to the imminent establishment of the new social work regulator for England, Social Work England.

Social Exclusion and Inclusion

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Lyons ◽  
Nathalie Huegler
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
International Development ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The term social exclusion achieved widespread use in Europe from the late twentieth century. Its value as a concept that is different from poverty, with universal relevance, has since been debated. It is used in Western literature about international development, and some authors have linked it to the notion of capabilities. However, it is not widely used in the social work vocabulary. Conversely, the notion of social inclusion has gained in usage and application. This links with values that underlie promotion of empowerment and participation, whether of individuals, groups, or communities. Both terms are inextricably linked to the realities of inequalities within and between societies and to the principles of human rights and social justice that feature in the international definition of social work.

Teaching Community Engagement to Engineers via a Workshop Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 145 (4) ◽  
pp. 06019001
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Woodson ◽  
Matthew Harsh ◽  
Michael J. Bernstein ◽  
Susan Cozzens ◽  
Jameson Wetmore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Teaching Community

scholarly journals Interrogating Practitioner Tensions for Raising Citizen Voice with Participatory Video in International Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (s1) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Plush
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
International Development ◽  
Work Analysis ◽  
Participatory Video ◽  
Development Context ◽  
The Voice

AbstractWithin international development, strengthening the voice of citizens living in poverty is recognised as vital to reducing inequity. In support of such endeavors, participatory video (PV) is an increasingly utilised communicative method that can stimulate community engagement and amplify the voice of groups often excluded from decision-making spaces. However, implementing PV processes specifically within an international development context is an immensely complex proposal. Practitioners must take into consideration the different ways institutions may understand the use of participatory video for raising citizen voice; and how therefore the practice may be influenced, co-opted or even devalued by these institutional assumptions. To this end, this article interrogates how global PV practitioners express tension in their work. Analysis of their descriptions suggests six influential views on PV practice with the potential to diminish the value of voice from the margins.

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