Shulamit Ramon, 2008

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurid Aga Askeland ◽  
Malcolm Payne
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
International Social Work ◽  
International Social Work Education ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Schools Of Social Work ◽  
International Social

This chapter contains a brief biography and transcript of an interview with Shulamit Ramon, a leader in British social work education, who was awarded the Katherine Kendall Award of the International Association of Schools of Social Work in 2008, for her contribution to international social work education. An important focus of her work as mental health, and early research compared Italian and UK services. She was also involved in developing social work in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet bloc and in the development of an international doctoral programme, INDOSOW. Later projects were concerned with social work responses in situations of political and social conflict. Her work demonstrates a commitment to user involvement in practice and education.

Terry Hokenstad, 2004

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurid Aga Askeland ◽  
Malcolm Payne
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
International Social Work ◽  
International Social Work Education ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Schools Of Social Work ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
International Social

This chapter contains a brief biography and transcript of an interview with Terry Hokenstad, a leader in American social work education, who was awarded the Katherine Kendall Award of the International Association of Schools of Social Work in 2004, for his contribution to international social work education. His professional and academic focus has been on ageing and older people, and he has been widely involved in policy advocacy in this area, including at the United Nations. Another important activity was building international links between US universities and many other countries, particularly with the opening up of the former Soviet bloc. He looks forward to future developments in coordination among international social work organisations.

Issues for the future of international social work education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurid Aga Askeland ◽  
Malcolm Payne
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
Full Range ◽  
International Social Work ◽  
International Social Work Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
Work Education ◽  
International Social

The chapter presents a content analysis and discussion of interviews with most of the awardees and of biographies of others who received the Katherine Kendall Award, focused on their views on the future of international social work and its education. Debate on the future role of the International Association of Schools of Social Work is also reviewed. Weaknesses in the representation of the full range of international social work education by the Association and the Award are considered. Ways of strengthening representation through greater involvement from the Global South and better funding of representation are explored.

Abye Tasse, 2016

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurid Aga Askeland ◽  
Malcolm Payne
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
International Social Work Education ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Schools Of Social Work ◽  
Important Basis ◽  
International Social

This chapter contains a brief biography and transcript of an interview with Abye Tasse, a leader in African social work education, who was awarded the Katherine Kendall Award of the International Association of Schools of Social Work in 2016, for his contribution to international social work education. A refugee from Ethiopia, he trained and worked as a social worker with migrants in marginalized communities in France. He was involved in developing practice education in Romania and social work education in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Mauritius and Comoros. In Ethiopia, masters and doctoral education supported the development of staff to contribute to bachelor-level education. Research and practice in work with migrants have been important in his career. In the future, social work needs to focus on brotherhood as an important element of liberty and greater equality. The Global social development Agenda is an important basis for future progress in social work.

Lena Dominelli, 2012

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurid Aga Askeland ◽  
Malcolm Payne
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
International Social Work Education ◽  
Community Worker ◽  
Social Work Theory ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Schools Of Social Work

This chapter contains a brief biography and transcript of an interview with Lena Dominelli, a leader in British social work education, who was awarded the Katherine Kendall Award of the International Association of Schools of Social Work in 2012, for contribution to international social work education. Following education in sociology, she worked as a community worker in a UK government programme, eventually closed down because it stimulated activism. Later, community work became distanced from social work in the UK. Important publications focused on class, gender and racism, and she worked on critical theory and to promote social work as a research-led discipline. Current issues of concern are to embed human rights and social and environmental justice in social work theory and develop involvement in disaster work. During her career, social work changed for the worse by becoming more bureaucratic and managerialist, but among positives are improvements in the profession's status and greater emphasis on user involvement. She would like to see social work become a universal service.

Armaity S. Desai, 1992

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurid Aga Askeland ◽  
Malcolm Payne
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
International Social Work ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Indigenous Literature ◽  
Social Work Training ◽  
Standing Up ◽  
Work Education ◽  
International Social

This chapter contains a brief biography and transcript of an interview with Armaity S. Desai, a leader in Indian social work education, who was awarded the Katherine Kendall Award of the International Association of Schools of Social Work in 1992, for her contribution to international social work education. After social work training and practice experience in India and the USA, she held leadership roles at the Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and the Indian University Grants Commission. Areas of social work important in her career included adoption, practice education, integrated practice in social work, using a range of modalities, using social work ideas to inform leadership roles and social development. She saw international social work as giving breadth of perspective, and saw lack of funding and indigenous literature as obstacles to development in social work education. Activism, standing up against the state, is seen as important in social work.

The changing contexts for international social work education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurid Aga Askeland ◽  
Malcolm Payne
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
International Social Work Education ◽  
Alice Salomon ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Schools Of Social Work ◽  
Establishment Phase

This chapter identifies three phases of internationalization in social work education. It documents foundation dates of social work courses in a representative range of countries. The foundation phase from the 1920s to 1945 brought together early social work schools in a committee under the leadership of Alice Salomon, the German feminist and social worker. From 1945 to 2000, the establishment phase achieved the adoption of social work education virtually universally, with Katherine Kendall playing an important executive role promoting coordination through the International Association of Schools of Social Work. The end of the Cold War in the 1990s led to the consolidation of the policy and social development work in these earlier phases into an issues-based phase when the Association sought to develop influence on global policy issues of social justice, social conflict and social development. Debates about the nature of international or global social work are explored.

Lowy, Louis

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Bloksberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
International Social Work ◽  
International Social Work Education ◽  
Boston University ◽  
Work Education ◽  
International Social

Louis Lowy (1920–1991) was a leader in gerontology and social work education and a pioneer in advancing international social work education. Lowy emigrated from Germany to Boston in 1946 and co-founded the Boston University Gerontology Center in 1974.

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