Skills and knowledge for community work: Informing social work practice for the 21st century

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Currie
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Community Work

scholarly journals Incorporating community development into social work practice within the neoliberal environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Aimers ◽  
Peter Walker
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Community Work ◽  
Core Subject ◽  
Work Education

Community development is a core subject in social work education, yet social work discourse often places community development at its margins (Mendes, 2009). This article considers the location of community development and community work within the current neoliberal environment in New Zealand and how such practice can be sustained by social workers in the community and voluntary sector. Community development is a way of working with communities that has a ‘bottom up’ approach as an alternative to State (top down) development. Over recent years, however, successive New Zealand governments have embraced neoliberal social policies that have marginalised community development. In addition the term ‘community work’ has been used to describe activities that have little to do with a bottom up approach thereby making it difficult to define both community development and community work. By applying a ‘knowledge intersections’ schema to two New Zealand community and voluntary organi- sations we identify where community development and social work intersect. From this basis we challenge social workers to consider ways in which community development can be embedded within their practice. 

From counselling to community work: Developing a framework for social work practice with displaced persons

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Whelan ◽  
Michelle Swallow ◽  
Pru Peschar ◽  
Antonia Dunne
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Community Work

scholarly journals Utilising a Virtual Community to practice Community Work theory during COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-142
Author(s):  
Elmien Claassens
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Community Work ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Practice Community

In this practice note, I highlight the challenges social work practice lecturers overcame during a national lockdown midst the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa whilst converting face to face teaching on community work to the online environment. I discuss how a fictitious virtual community was created, enabling students to apply the theoretical knowledge on community work from the practice module. I share the practical application on how students were able to ‘do’ community work in a virtual community and what we as a team of social work practice educators learned as a result.

Ethnicity and Placement: Beginning the Debate

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Small
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Guest Editor ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
International Social Work ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Radical Shift ◽  
International Social

This article is based on an interview with John Small by Guest Editor Beverley Prevatt Goldstein during the Fourth International Conference of Caribbean and International Social Work Educators, which took place in Jamaica in July 1999. Small played a key role in the recruitment of black carers, which, with its focus on the importance of identity, contributed to the radical shift in the ideological base of British social work practice from the early 1980s. After a brief introduction by the Editor, he reflects on these issues, both in the light of the pioneering work carried out by black activists at that time and the challenges for those engaged in family placement work today. In conclusion, Prevatt Goldstein comments on the interview and the relevance of Small's position in the 21st Century.

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